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‘What are the chances? I retire and the stock market crashes. All my plans are upside down.’ I want to draw on my 401(k) to renovate my new home. What options do I have?

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 […]

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Personal Finance

6 questions to ask your financial adviser right now as stocks continue to tumble and viral baby-formula thread shows why moms can’t just breastfeed their way out of a shortage

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 […]

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Business

Matt Damon crypto commercial: How much you would have lost if you invested then

Remember when Matt Damon told you, “Fortune favors the brave”? Well, Twitter TWTR, -2.19% users do, and many of them are bringing up the viral Crypto.com ad, while prices for cryptocurrency like bitcoin BTCUSD, +1.26% and ether ETHUSD, -4.69% are slumping, and crypto exchange platforms like Coinbase COIN, +8.90% are losing billions in market cap. […]

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Opinion: The S&P 500’s charts are pointing to more stock-market losses

This past week, the S&P 500 index plunged to new relative lows. It is now trading at prices last seen in March 2021. This latest move downward violated support at 4100-4200 and prompted a swift move down toward possible support at 3900. The next support area below that is 3700 – the lows of February […]

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Artificial intelligence

California’s AI-Powered Wildfire Prevention Efforts Contend With Data Challenge

California-based utility companies are increasingly investing in artificial intelligence for wildfire mitigation but say they are struggling to collect enough data to train the AI. Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and PG&E Corp. say they see promise in AI algorithms that use images captured by drones and other means to detect […]

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Markets

Out of 100 housing markets in America, this is the least overpriced, study finds

Baltimore is the least overvalued housing market, new study reveals. Getty Images Housing prices have risen rapidly in the past year, even as mortgage rates are on the rise with pros saying they will likely go up more (see the lowest mortgage rates you can qualify for here). But some markets are now a lot […]

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Markets

Hot Job Market, Strong Demand for CFOs Strain Due Diligence

The sudden exit of Moderna Inc.’s newly hired chief financial officer shines a light on the challenges companies and recruiters are facing in a tight job market, in which candidates often have more than one competing offer, forcing hiring managers to make quick decisions. Jorge Gomez, who on Monday started as Moderna’s CFO, departed on […]

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Internet

Crypto crash: Mark Cuban says crypto is in ‘lull that the internet went through’

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks that cryptocurrency is on the same downswing that tech and internet companies hit in the early 2000s. Bitcoin hit a 10-month low on Monday, and sales of non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs, plummeted between January and March 2022. See also: Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as lead NFL analyst when […]

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Markets

Will inflation push more people to go back to work? ‘They’ll be entering a job market that’s eager to have them,’ one economist says

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 […]

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Personal Finance

Will inflation push more people to go back to work? ‘They’ll be entering a job market that’s eager to have them,’ one economist says and you can now use bitcoin to pay college tuition — but should you?

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 […]