To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of "Financial Fitness" articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how to save, invest and spend their money ...

These companies largely earn their competitive advantage from intangible assets, and their stocks are great choices for an investor’s watchlist.

I have a chunk of money from my father's estate. My investments are losing money fast due to the current economic situation. I called my financial adviser and said this is not within my tolerance ...

Many Americans swimming in high prices and deepening debts are turning to their income-tax refunds as a life jacket. Tax refunds are the biggest single payment some people receive all year; common ...

A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...

Weeks after the Social Security Administration said it was increasing transparency and accountability, the agency is reportedly moving its communications off of its website and onto the Elon ...

Many personal-finance experts were already warning that a cash emergency-savings account covering three months of necessary expenses in case of unemployment was likely too little for today's job ...

The "smart home" market in the U.S. alone is projected to exceed $87 billion over the next decade. Internet-connected devices and on-demand services - from home deliveries to telemedicine - provide ...

A common instinct for many investors is to buy what is familiar - stocks you know or hear about regularly, and markets close to home. This tendency, known as "home bias," can limit your investment ...

It is true that the White House claim that millions of checks are going to dead people has been systematically debunked and discredited repeatedly. That fact is outweighed by another fact: Millions of ...

Sell-side price targets, which have been steep, are still bullish because the stock is trading below analysts' updated levels. For example, analysts polled by FactSet have a mean price target of $342.

The tax collector pledged to do more audits of rich people and businesses under former President Joe Biden's administration - but for most others, the chances of an audit were already quite low. The ...