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My local restaurant charges a 5% container charge and 3% kitchen-service fee. Is this nuts?
This restaurant has a 3% surcharge for credit-card use. Fair enough. Now they've added a 3% kitchen-service charge and a 5% container fee. During COVID, I started tipping very, very generously, but ...
April was a V-shaped stock-market recovery for the ages - but they're still quite rare
But V-shaped recoveries are not actually more frequent. She found there were more during the global financial crisis, and since 2000, there has been an average of 1.8 V-shaped recoveries per year.
Layoff anxiety is soaring. Here's how you can 'prepare rather than panic.'
"Worker sentiment has dropped faster than the hard economic data has," Glassdoor's Lead Economist, Daniel Zhao, told MarketWatch. "Even as the worst case for tariffs seems to have been avoided, ...
My son, 39, will be released from prison in 2030. Do I leave him my $100K life insurance?
'I am concerned about leaving a large sum of cash to a drug user' My 39-year-old son is in prison until 2030.
Worried about long-term bond yields, this strategist says overweight cash
With upward pressure from sticky inflation and deteriorating fiscal outlooks, bond yields threaten to rise over the next six-to-12 months. This explains why independent investment strategists, MRB ...
Canary in the coal mine? The U.K. labor market has closely tracked the U.S. - and now it's weakening
The U.S. labor market so far has been cooling but not outright deteriorating. Data released on Friday showed the U.S. unemployment in May staying at 4.2% as payrolls rose by 139,000. There are ...
Why one Wall Street analyst sees a major opportunity in unloved small-cap stocks
Emanuel has become the latest high-profile Wall Street analyst to argue that small caps could soon sprint higher, potentially leaving many of their larger rivals in the dust. During an era where size ...
'Big Money' turns bullish on stocks. Will that lead the S&P 500 to a 'melt up'?
A melt up risks happening when investors sharply accelerate the market's climb in what appears to be an unsustainable way. This may happen after a wave of investors buys stocks on fear they have ...
EToro wins analyst praise for user-friendly trading, but the stock gets mixed reviews
Analysts praised eToro's (ETOR) membership base of 3.5 million - mostly individual traders - and its ability to bond with retail investors with products such as its CopyTrader and SmartPortfolio.
EchoStar may be considering this unusual way to protect itself from the government, and the stock is falling
Shares of EchoStar Corp. fell Monday amid concerns the satellite and wireless company is reportedly considering a bankruptcy filing to protect its wireless and spectrum licenses from being revoked by ...
Warner Bros. Discovery's rapid split shows how much the cable TV business is struggling
Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) closed down 3% after initially shooting up 12% in morning trading on the news, which undoes a lot of the 2022 merger that brought the companies together in the ...
Burned by Robinhood not making the S&P 500? Here's how you can make money the next time this happens.
Despite weeks of speculation that Robinhood (HOOD) would be added to the S&P 500 SPX, S&P Dow Jones Indices last Friday decided against the move. Notwithstanding short-term traders' disappointment ...