By MarketWatch.com | Bill Peters | 3/19/2025 7:17 PM

Teen-focused discount retailer Five Below Inc. on Wednesday offered up a mixed full-year forecast, but expectations for the year’s first quarter were a bit more upbeat. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | William Watts | 3/19/2025 6:32 PM

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s nuanced take on the economic outlook helped lift stocks on Wednesday. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Andrew Keshner | 3/19/2025 4:24 PM

Consumers are increasingly concerned about their jobs and their access to credit as recession fears loom. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | James Rogers | 3/19/2025 4:21 PM

Tesla shares have lost more than half their value in a span of just three months, and Cantor Fitzgerald now believes there’s 80% upside. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Vivien Lou Chen | 3/19/2025 2:10 PM

Yields on U.S. government debt remained slightly higher on Wednesday after Federal Reserve officials stuck with their expectations for two rate cuts this year despite rising economic uncertainty. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Greg Robb | 3/19/2025 2:04 PM

The Fed was upbeat about the economy in its statement, saying growth was solid, but the details of their individual forecasts show more worries about both higher inflation and a slowing economy. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Lukas I. Alpert | 3/19/2025 1:52 PM

The heavy-metal band found a new way to cash in on its fame — by selling scraps of its Boeing 747 tour plane, “Ed Force One,” as memorabilia. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Steve Gelsi | 3/19/2025 1:14 PM

Retailers have responded to a long period of inflation with a renewed emphasis on value over less essential products. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Brett Arends | 3/19/2025 11:54 AM

It’s not a simple “buy” signal. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Aarthi Swaminathan | 3/19/2025 11:46 AM

More than a third of Americans said they want the housing market to crash because they think it would lower home prices and property taxes. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Steve Gelsi | 3/19/2025 8:08 AM

The company said that organic net sales “finished below our expectations.” ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | William Watts | 3/19/2025 8:07 AM

Oil futures were off slightly Wednesday, seeing some modest pressure a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a full cease-fire in the country’s invasion of Ukraine but agreed to a mutual halt on energy infrastructure for 30 days. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Steve Goldstein | 3/19/2025 7:28 AM

An action taken late on Tuesday is again raising the question of Trump’s authority to dismiss Fed officials ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Quentin Fottrell | 3/19/2025 5:15 AM

“I want to get into a financial position where I’ve got decent retirement savings.” ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | | 3/19/2025 5:04 AM

Robinson decided to try it out car life for herself and in 2022 began living in her vehicle full time, saying that she felt so much more freedom living on the road. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Greg Robb | 3/18/2025 9:07 PM

Financial markets are not just focused on what the Federal Reserve says about the future path of interest rates on Wednesday. The markets are also on alert for changes to the Fed’s ongoing runoff of its balance sheet, known as “quantitative tightening,” or QT. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Bill Peters | 3/18/2025 7:14 PM

Morgan Stanley plans to cut between 2% and 3% of its 80,000 global employees late this month, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Lukas I. Alpert | 3/18/2025 7:03 PM

Netflix paid Carl Erik Rinsch top dollar during the peak streaming boom for a sci-fi series he never delivered, losing it all on bad investments and luxury goods, prosecutors say ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Emily Bary | 3/18/2025 6:57 PM

Wiz was founded only five years ago but offers an increasingly important cloud-security service as cyber risks grow. ... Read full Story

By MarketWatch.com | Therese Poletti | 3/18/2025 6:50 PM

Investors hoping for a surprise new revenue stream instead got an energetic keynote that was lacking in fresh developments. ... Read full Story