Dear Quentin, I’m due to retire in two months and I have already moved to my new home in the sun. I have not sold my apartment in a major US metropolitan area on the east coast, as I wanted to see how I settled into my new life. It’s a quiet, but beautiful city […]
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Alexander Skarsgard Selling His Place in NYC for $2.6M “The Northman” star Alexander Skarsgard is placing his East Village apartment on the market for $2.6 million, according to Architectural Digest. Read More Could we ever really get a 4-day work week in the US? Almost 80% of employees […]
Labor costs are driving up inflation. But will inflation also drive more people back to the workforce? The annual rate of inflation slowed to 8.3% in April from 8.5% the previous month, helped by a fall in gasoline prices, but consumers still face rapidly rising costs. The March reading was the highest since 1981. The […]
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Everything you need to know to get your yard ready for summer This week we caught up with Jeff Keiter, our resident landscape architecture guru, who previously chatted with us about winter trends for your yard. Today we are talking about spring gardening, the best tools and the […]
The architect and designer Thierry W. Despont, known for designing lavish homes and hotels around the world, is listing his personal Hamptons estate for $23.5 million. Set on roughly 34 acres, the Southampton property was a horse farm that Mr. Despont transformed into a residence with a separate guesthouse and pool house, according to Harald […]
Unity Software Inc. executives thought they had found a way to avoid fallout from changes in Apple Inc.’s mobile operating system. It turns out they were wrong, and Wall Street punished Unity U, -35.25% stock for it Wednesday. Shares shed more than a third of their value, worth roughly $5 billion in market capitalization, and […]
Citizens Financial Group Inc. launched its Citizens Pay iPhone upgrade plan in 2015 as an early form of the buy-now-pay-later concept that’s in vogue in the payments space. The idea was to take the Citizens CFG, -0.96% brand as a credit provider and combine it with Apple’s AAPL, +1.61% iPhone to help customers avoid waiting […]
Another turnaround Tuesday may be in the cards after a litany of concerns including stagflation dragged the S&P 500 SPX, +1.00% below 4,000 for the first time since 2021. As investors try to regroup from the worst three-day stock stretch in two years, one more hard day of selling for the S&P might be a […]