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Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance Americans scroll Amazon and Walmart for bargains — yet choose pricey healthcare services and throw away hundreds of dollars New hospital-price transparency rules took effect earlier this year, but patient advocates say those rules only do so much. ‘We need …

Most Americans believe themselves to be members of the middle class. But a new report has shed light on who really makes up this segment of society — and how their numbers are shrinking. A paper released this week from the RAND Corporation, a public policy research firm, explores the …

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Sectors including banking, biotech, gold mining, green energy and infrastructure will be in play this year. See full story. Biden promises 100 federal vaccination centers by end of his first month in office President-elect Joe Biden on Friday gives a speech in Wilmington, Del., about his plan …

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images Twitter Inc. shares were little changed in after-hours trading Thursday as the social-media platform experienced a massive and as-yet-unexplained outage. Twitter’s feed went down around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, with users unable to post new tweets or see anything posted past that time. Service …

The COVID-19 outbreak is bringing more people into the digital fray and providing a further tailwind to e-commerce growth. In Latin America alone, 13 million Visa Inc. V, -1.16% cardholders made e-commerce transactions for the first time ever during the March quarter, the company’s Chief Product Officer Jack Forestell told …