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Amazon’s Prime Video has a handful of big-name premieres in January 2023 to go along with a hefty slate of movies. “Hunters” (Jan. 13) returns for its second and final season. The alt-history revenge/conspiracy thriller, which premiered in 2020, stars Al Pacino as the leader of a private Nazi-hunting team in the 1970s, and this

What’s been on people’s minds in 2022? The economy, stupid.  In fact, Google searches for “cost of living” and for financial assistance reached a 10-year high in 2022. That’s according to a report released by the Alphabet-owned GOOGL, -0.66% search engine on Wednesday, which came just hours before the Fed meeting where Federal Reserve chairman

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Why the stock market’s painful December decline might actually be bullish for investors in 2023 U.S. stocks often perform better following a weak second half of December. Read

After quickly ratcheting up interest rates to combat red-hot inflation, the Federal Reserve is not suggesting that rates will drop any time soon. On Wednesday, the central bank raised the benchmark interest rate again. This time, as Wall Street had anticipated, it upped the key rate by 50 basis points. That follows four, 75-basis point

Recently, I begged people not to invest in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE:GME) yet. I suggested that GME stock needs to hit $20 before anyone should jump into the trade. Even after a post-earnings rally, I’m standing by the wait-for-$20 strategy as GameStop’s financials aren’t as stellar as some perma-bulls might assume. Don’t get me wrong

Tesla Inc. shares Friday wrapped up their worst week since 2020, as Chief Executive Elon Musk sold billions in stock and faced a call from a prominent investor to step down from the helm of the electric-vehicle maker. Tesla TSLA, -4.72% stock fell 4.7% Friday for a weekly decline of 16.1%, the fourth-worst week in

U.S. stock futures pointed to sharp losses at the start of trading for Wall Street on Friday, amid investor expectations that central banks will continue to raise interest rates aggressively despite stiff economic headwinds. How are stock-index futures trading? On Thursday, the Dow industrials DJIA tumbled 764.13 points, or 2.3%, to finish at 33,202.22, marking

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Google and YouTube parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) navigated rough economic waters in 2022. That’s good news for GOOG stock traders, however. You now have a prime opportunity to get exposure to a search-engine giant as well as a major competitor in cloud computing and cyber-defense. Even the most

Coverage of Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal between France and Morocco on TV streaming service FuboTV Inc. FUBO was disrupted by a cyber attack, the company has confirmed. In a statement released Thursday FuboTV said that, during Wednesday’s live coverage of the game, many customers experienced issues accessing their accounts. “The incident was not related to

Short-end bond yields edged higher Thursday, as the U.S. dollar moved more forcefully in response to the hawkish message coming from the Federal Reserve. What’s happening What’s driving market The action in bonds didn’t match the volatility seen in stocks ES00 and the U.S. dollar DXY following the Fed’s decision to lift rates by a

Another day, another leg lower for Tesla Inc. stock, which on Wednesday ended less than $10 from trading under $150 and went the opposite direction of the broader equity markets. Tesla TSLA stock fell 2.6% to end at $158.60. The stock has traded around two-year lows in recent sessions, and Wednesday’s decline brought it to

You don’t need to be a math whiz to understand that when you get a 5.9% raise, but inflation exceeds that, that you’re going to lose ground. That, in a nutshell, explains the problem that millions of Social Security recipients have encountered this year.  Essentials like food, heating oil and natural gas, for example, have

Robinhood Markets Inc.’s turnaround efforts are likely to grate up against the implosion of crypto exchange FTX and the broader cryptocurrency market, one analyst said late Monday, shortly before the U.S. charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with multiple counts of fraud. That analyst, Citigroup’s Christopher Allen, downgraded Robinhood HOOD, -2.40% to neutral from buy and

The 2023 Mercedes-AMG S 63 E Performance combines the opulence of an S-Class with Formula One-derived electric performance boosts Mercedes has not disclosed pricing. We expect it to start as high as $200,000 Superluxury cars like the Mercedes-Benz S-Class are a little absurd. For a price starting at $111,100, the top-of-the-line Mercedes sedan has virtually every technology

Ticketmaster says it is giving some Taylor Swift fans another opportunity to score tickets to her upcoming Eras Tour after millions of fans ran up against technical difficulties last month when they initially went on sale. A certain number of “Verified Fans” who missed out on the first ticket-sale debacle were notified by email on

Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive on Monday said it won’t go forward with a plan to make electric vans in Europe with Mercedes-Benz, just three months after agreeing to the pact. “As we evaluate growth opportunities, we pursue the best risk-adjusted returns on our capital investments. At this point in time, we believe focusing on

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Grant Wahl, a well-known sports journalist, who was on location covering the Qatar World Cup died at 48 of what medics on the scene described as cardiac arrest while covering a quarterfinal contest between Argentina and Netherlands on Friday, according to reports. In a statement late Friday, U.S. Soccer Federation said that the entire U.S.

OK, so a million dollars isn’t what it used to be. But is it really not enough to give you a secure retirement? That’s the worry among a surprising number of America’s millionaires. So, at least, reports money-management giant Natixis, which owns bond shop Loomis Sayles, among other firms. Natixis polled around 1,600 people with

According to the perma-bulls, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) made a brilliant move in adding commercial-supported membership tiers recently. However, NFLX stock is still far from a real recovery, and Netflix management’s latest ideas aren’t a guarantee of success. Even the much-touted ad-supported service strategy could backfire. People sometimes call Netflix the streaming king, but this is now a