Author: super@dmin
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Sustainable Investing: Is your 401(k) invested in gun stocks? Read this if you want to change that
Americans are once again asking what they can do to help stop the shootings that have left so many innocent people dead. On Saturday, Pittsburgh police responded to an active-shooter situation at the The Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill that has led to multiple fatalities, according to reports. “It’s a horrific crime scene,”…
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The Moneyist: My cheating husband just inherited $3 million from his father’s estate — should I still divorce him?
Dear Moneyologist, My husband recently inherited a big sum of money when his father passed away. His father left 75% of his estate to my husband, which is worth around $3 million. My husband has been having an affair for some time now and I will confront him about it soon and, after that, I…
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The No. 1 thing you should do to get rich, according to Robert Kiyosaki
Want to be rich? The answer is education, education, education. But probably not the kind you’re thinking of. That’s according to personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki, who wrote the best-selling “Rich Dad Poor Dad” 20 years ago this month. He visited MarketWatch on Tuesday to talk about what has changed since its publication in 1997,…
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Best New Ideas in Money: Teaching people about money doesn’t seem to make them any smarter about money – here’s what might
If the average American went in for a financial checkup, he or she might get rushed to the emergency room. Forty-four percent of us can’t cover a $400 out-of-pocket expense, and 52% of American households have no retirement savings. We seem to be chronically poor at making financial decisions. We commit costly mistakes across all…
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Mutual Funds Weekly: The Dow still hasn’t let off enough steam
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Here’s a stock-market prediction: the Dow Jones Industrial Average will lose 5% in a single trading day, and maybe 10%, sooner than later. There’s no crystal ball here; it’s just how things go on Wall Street. The Dow DJIA, -1.19% historically has suffered a 5% one-day…
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Market Extra: The global selloff has erased $5 trillion from stock and bond markets in October
The recent stampede by investors has erased about $5 trillion in value from global stock and bond markets in October alone. But that shouldn’t be severe enough to affect the economy, for now, according to economists at Deutsche Bank. Still, unless the markets regain their footing soon, the pressure for the Federal Reserve to reassess…
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Market Extra: Dollar traders fear midterm-election risk, but here’s the reason the buck remains too enticing to ignore
The impending U.S. midterm elections pose a downside risk to the U.S. dollar, but as the highest-yielding developed-market currency, the greenback just remains too attractive to ignore—for now. The dollar, measured by the popular ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, -0.29% has climbed 4.6% so far this year against the six major rivals represented in the…
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Asia Markets: Former Hong Kong securities regulator gives China investment a ‘wide berth’
China’s economic growth is “a fiction” and the country’s stock-market rout will get worse from here, according to the former head of Hong Kong’s securities regulator. Martin Wheatley, who also previously headed up the U.K.’s top financial watchdog, said there are many reasons for investors to steer clear of Chinese stocks. Read: Here are the…
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Asia Markets: Mark Mobius says trade clash with U.S. is the big threat to China’s economy
Mark Mobius, the veteran emerging-markets investor, has warned that a full-blown trade war between China and the U.S. threatens to rattle foreign investors who are eyeing opportunities in the second-largest economy. The former Franklin Templeton star fund manager, who earlier this year set up his own emerging-markets investment venture, said China’s slowest quarterly growth rate…
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The Tell: Stocks could rally 20% after this bruising rout, says Guggenheim’s Minerd, but then watch out
Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners has some good news — and some bad news — for stock-market investors. First the good news: If investors are smarting from a bludgeoning that has racked up withering weekly losses for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.19% S&P 500 index SPX, -1.73% and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP,…