Dear MarketWatch, I am trying to come up with a path to retire within the next two to three years and need some help. I will be 54 this summer and my wife is 48. Between us we make about $ 210,000 a year. We currently have about $ 1.6 …
Read More » The number of global confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 133 million on Thursday and the death toll edged closer to 3 million, as India and Brazil became flashpoints amid record death levels and concerns about the spread of more infectious variants. Brazil reported almost 4,200 COVID-19 …
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Digital-payments company Stripe said Sunday it had closed a $ 600 million funding round that values the company at $ 95 billion — more than double its valuation a year ago. Stripe said it would use the money to beef up its European operations — especially its co-headquarters in Dublin …
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Dear Quentin, My daughter was a TV starlet in her youth, and thanks to the magic of compound investing, has a large amount of cash on hand (approximately $ 1 million). She wants to take some of this money and make the down payment on a co-op or a condominium. …
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Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance ‘I will continue happily shopping there forever’: Costco customers react to retailer’s new $ 16 minimum wage Some 180,000 U.S.-based Costco employees will begin earning $ 16 an hour starting next week, the warehouse retailer’s CEO announced Thursday. We put …
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Dear Moneyist, My husband is 67 years old with an estate worth $ 2 million. His first wife died. He has a severely handicapped daughter and we signed a prenup when we married three years ago. He has a sister who is a year older than I am. I am …
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Plug Power Inc. disclosed stock trades made by Chief Executive Andrew Marsh earlier this week, in which he netted more than $ 36 million. Marsh purchased a total of 573,268 shares of Plug stock on Jan. 19 at a weighted average price of $ 2.8764, according to a MarketWatch analysis …
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Record-breaking profits lead to record-breaking investment in the Movement Foundation. Movement Mortgage, one of the nation’s largest retail mortgage lenders, is honored to announce a $ 200 million investment to expand its nonprofit Movement Foundation and accelerate the development of its Movement Schools charter school network, develop adjacent affordable housing …
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• U.S. case tally climbs to 15 million from 14 million in five days • Birx and Fauci say Americans must stop gathering in large numbers • President-elect Joe Biden pledges to deliver 100 million vaccine shots in first 100 days in office • German Chancellor Angela Merkel pleads with …
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