Taylor Swift, Lionel Messi, women’s sports boost StubHub ticket sales
Addison O’Grady #44 of the Iowa Hawkeyes rebounds against LaDazhia Williams #0 of the LSU Lady Tigers during the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament National Championship at American Airlines Center on April 2, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. C. Morgan Engel | Ncaa Photos | Getty Images Women’s sports had a banner year in 2023, according […]
My husband says we’ll be ‘homeless’ if we keep renting. Do we buy a home?
Dear MarketWatch, My husband is 68 and I’m 74. He makes $250,000 a year. We’re renting a townhouse in a very upscale suburb in the Houston area, but our last rent increase was $300 a month! My husband wants to find a house for not more than $300,000 because he doesn’t want to be a […]
Walmart hiring, wage pressures have eased, CEO says
A worker stocks the shelves at a Walmart store on January 24, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Walmart announced that it is raising its minimum wage for store employees in early March, store employees will make between $14 and $19 an hour. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images After pandemic-fueled higher turnover and […]
Aging at home for LGBTQ adults requires important legal planning: Here’s a guide
Seven million adults in the U.S. will identify as LGBTQ by 2030. Alienated from family because of their sexual orientation or identity and often childless, older LGBTQ adults must rely on aging partners or spouses for care. A 2022 study found that 60% of older LGBTQ adults fear discrimination or abuse because the current healthcare system fails to […]
McDonald’s investor day highlights and top risks in 2024
The Ronald McDonald balloon floats down Central Park West during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 23, 2023, in New York City. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images McDonald’s executives painted a rosy portrait of the fast-food giant’s strength and ability to achieve long-term goals at its investor day, but the company […]
Wonka, Color Purple, Aquaman box office crucial for Hollywood
Timothee Chalamet stars as a young Willy Wonka in Warner Bros.’ “Wonka.” Warner Bros. Discovery LOS ANGELES — There are just a few weeks left at the 2023 box office, and they’ll be dominated by movies from Warner Bros. The studio is capping off the year with three big features — “Wonka,” “Aquaman and the […]
Growth stocks stole spotlight from value stocks in 2023. Can that change in ’24?
U.S. value stocks were supposed to shine in 2023. But then came the “Magnificent Seven” stocks, hitched to the artificial-intelligence craze, to dominate this year’s stock-market rally. The Magnificent Seven stocks — Apple AAPL, +0.74%, Microsoft MSFT, +0.88%, Alphabet GOOGL, -1.42%, Amazon AMZN, +0.37%, Nvidia NVDA, +1.95%, Meta Platforms META, +1.89% and Tesla TSLA, +0.49% […]
U.S. poised to approve breakthrough treatment
At age 19, Joe Tsogbe underwent his first hip replacement. In his 20s, he averaged about nine hospitalizations a year. By his 30s, that rose to more than a dozen. All the result of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder where a genetic mutation causes normally full-moon shaped red blood cells to form into […]
S&P 500 may rise to 5,100 by end of 2024 as U.S. stock-market rally broadens, Citi says
The S&P 500 index may climb to 5,100 by the end of next year in a broadening of the U.S. stock market’s rally, according to equity analysts at Citigroup. Citi’s price target for the end of 2024 is premised on its estimate that the S&P 500’s earnings per share will increase to $245, equity analysts […]
Starbucks tells union it wants to resume contract talks in January
Members and supporters of Starbucks Workers United protest outside of a Starbucks store in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16, 2023. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Starbucks said it wants to resume contract talks with the union representing its baristas, starting in January. Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of the first unionization of […]
