By MarketWatch.com | Steve Gelsi | 3/17/2025 8:08 AM
Lululemon is gaining traction from introducing more new products and a favorable comparison to a softer performance last year, a Truist analyst notes. ... Read full Story
The Financial Conduct Authority is looking to fine and ban Crispin Odey, alleging he “repeatedly” tried to frustrate investigations into his behavior. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | William Watts | 3/17/2025 7:04 AM
Oil futures were modestly higher Monday, finding support after the U.S. over the weekend launched U.S. strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. ... Read full Story
UBS’s chief investment office has lifted its gold price forecast to $3,200 from $3,000, saying it could reach that threshold by June. ... Read full Story
The U.S. economic growth outlook — and even more so, Canada’s and Mexico’s — was lowered on Monday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development due to policy uncertainty and the possible impact from tariffs. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Mike Murphy | 3/16/2025 8:05 PM
U.S. stock futures declined Sunday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he’s not worried about a market downturn, despite a miserable stretch for Wall Street. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Jessica Hall | 3/16/2025 3:08 PM
Less than one-third of 1% are erroneously reported deaths that need to be corrected, according to the Social Security Administration ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | William Watts | 3/16/2025 12:00 PM
President Donald Trump signaled to stock-market investors last week that they’re on their own. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will likely deliver a similar message when monetary policymakers meet this week. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Bill Peters | 3/16/2025 10:00 AM
Despite consumer sentiment hitting a 29-month low by one measure, executives have focused less on inflation — and more on AI — during their quarterly earnings calls. ... Read full Story
Fired federal workers are having trouble getting unemployment benefits — and some experts fear that could spell trouble for the broader economy. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Emily Bary | 3/15/2025 8:30 AM
A prominent Apple blogger says the company “squandered” its credibility by advertising Siri features as an iPhone 16 selling point — when they were nowhere near ready to use. ... Read full Story
"Sly Lives! is exceptionally strong in its attention to musical detail—even more than Questlove's previous cinematic effort, the Academy Award–winning Summer of Soul, Sly Lives! feels like a film made by a great musician. The film's interviewees offer illuminating ruminations on Sly's vocal arrangements, including his penchant for switching back and forth between unison vocal parts and harmonized ones ..." — Jack Hamilton, Slate, 13 Feb. 2025
Did you know?
English has multiple p-words that imply a strong instinct or liking for something, including propensity and proclivity, but to keep things precise, penchant is the proper word for implying a pronounced, persistent taste in a person ("a penchant for pretty pendants") or a predominant predilection for performing particular actions ("a penchant for petting penguins"). Penchant traces back all the way to the Latin verb pendere, meaning "to weigh," but is more immediately preceded in English by the French word penchant, from the present participle of pencher, meaning "to incline."