Mutual Funds Weekly: These money and investing tips can help you manage your portfolio — and your expectations — in 2021
These money and investing stories were popular with MarketWatch readers over the past week.
The Wall Street Journal: GM plans to grow its auto-lending business and will seek a banking charter to do it
General Motor’s lending arm is drawing up plans to apply for a banking charter, a move that would allow it to accept deposits and expand its auto-finance business, according to…
The Moneyist: My mother left a home in Savannah with 5 acres. I want to sell. My brother threatened to ‘ruin me’ and sue me for harassment
‘My sister also does not want to sell the property because it has been in the family for 90 years.’
NerdWallet: Take these steps to build financial stability, even in tough times
While it’s never been more clear how much is out of our control, you can still take steps to improve your financial stability.
Mark Hulbert: The surprising lesson Black Friday and Cyber Monday can teach stock-market investors
The holiday spirit infects — and can distort — investor behavior.
Currencies: Dollar slips toward 2020 low as history reminds traders not to sleep on FX around Thanksgiving
The dollar did it again — falling to a multi-month low versus the euro the day before Thanksgiving, a move that’s pushing a closely followed gauge of the U.S. currency…
The Russell 2000 has had a powerful November — and the gains aren’t over
Small and midcap stocks will keep rocketing higher for 5 big reasons.
Banks and oil companies weigh on FTSE 100 as investors pause ahead of U.S. holiday
Stocks in London fall, keeping in step with losses for global markets, with major oil companies and bank stocks leading the way lower. And U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced spending…
General News: Goldman Sachs is launching a new trading platform as an insurance policy. Here’s why
Goldman Sachs is being forced to open a new stock trading hub in Paris, due to uncertainty surrounding Brexit and London’s future as a European stock trading center.
The Tell: Legendary investor called this stock market a ‘Real McCoy’ bubble, and now Jeremy Grantham’s fund is trailing the S&P 500 by 14 percentage points
Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist at Boston-based money manager Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., has seen his fund badly trail the broader stock market in 2020.