Happy Monday, MarketWatchers! Here are the top personal finance stories of the day.
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This mother wonders whether it’s fair that her daughter’s boyfriend lives there for free.
After the report on systematic sexual abuse in Pennsylvania involving 1,000 children over 7 decades, some worry their donations have been enabling a culture of secrecy.
A new credit for dependents covers children up to age 23 who live at home.
Consumers should wait before shopping for good bargains.
New data reveal how much Americans in each income bracket have put away for a rainy day.
Potential home buyers can afford new mortgages — they just won’t give up their old ones, writes Tim Mullaney.
Consumers are returning to some ‘uncool’ brands and even quietly politicizing their fashion choices.
Before you embark on fall shopping, here’s what you should buy (and skip) in the month of September.
Here are 6 common unhealthy mind-sets—and how to keep them from sabotaging your finances.
Clad in a tan suit and sipping from a water bottle as he sought to keep emotion in check, Rick Davis, national campaign manager for John McCain’s 2008 presidential run against then–fellow U.S. senator Barack Obama, read a message touching on themes of patriotism, exceptionalism and tribalism and explicitly looking ahead to McCain’s imminent demise.
Tiger Woods has always been one of the most vanilla interviews in sports. He’ll give plenty of insight into his game, talk about that birdie on the 8th hole, how true the putts are rolling, but that’s really about it. He rarely veers off course by offering the public a glimpse into his tumultuous personal life. His interview on Sunday was more of the same.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced his administration had reached a deal with Mexico on issues that have held up renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement for over a year.
Jay Lapeyre saus he is hearing lots of longer-term concern from customers, and the conveyor-belt business experienced a sudden slowdown in booked orders in June and July — from 18% growth to flat compared to the same months last year.
The American flag atop the White House was flying at full-staff Monday, even as flags at the Capitol remained at half-staff following the death on Saturday of Sen. John McCain.
A measure of the U.S. economy from the Chicago Federal Reserve slowed in July from June’s robust performance, owed in large part to lighter output at the nation’s factories.
In a tribute to Sen. John McCain penned before the war hero and longtime lawmaker’s death Saturday at 81, former campaign aide Mark McKinnon shared an inside look at McCain’s temperament under fire.
Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch, who has been more effusive than most congressional Republicans in his praise of Trump — calling Trump late last year a “heck of a leader” with the potential to become the best president “maybe ever” — conceded in a conversation with the New York Times that Trump was no paragon of piety or propriety. In the past, at least.
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