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Amazon To Support Utility-bill Payments With Alexa

Amazon.com Inc. is tapping into bill payments by letting customers use its Amazon Pay feature for their utility bills. ... Read more

Market Extra: Signs Of Stress In Leveraged Credit Are Numerous And Multiplying, Warns Bank Of America

Credit conditions are getting tighter and downgrades more frequent in the roughly $1.2 trillion U.S. leveraged loan sect... Read more

Market Snapshot: Why Would The Fed Cut Interest Rates A 3rd Time In A Row Even As Stocks Near Records? Investors May Soon Find Out

A scant few think that Jerome Powell & Co. will opt not to cut interest rates next week for a third time in as many ... Read more

The No. 1 Reason Billionaires Decide To Move — It Has Nothing To Do With Buying A Bigger Home

Middle-class Americans can learn some financially savvy strategies from the ultra-wealthy. Read more

Mutual Funds Weekly: Many Cheap Value Stocks Are Now Pennies Worth Picking Up — Plus Other Top Investing Tips

Money and investing stories resonating with MarketWatch readers this past week. Read more

Market Extra: Bitcoin Surges To Over $10,000 In Biggest Single Day Move Since April

The bitcoin price has seen a crazy past 36 to 48 hours after China’s president backed block chain technology developme... Read more

Outside The Box: Low Returns For Public Pensions Threaten Future Retirees

The government is footing the bill for unrealized investment returns. Read more

Need To Know: Why The Bull Market Wont End With A Typical Crash, Says Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio

The U.S. and China may be nearing a tentative, partial trade agreement but the IMF’s new leader has warned even a comp... Read more

Mortgage Rates Rise To Highest Level Since August

Nevertheless, affordability may be improving for home buyers. Read more

BookWatch: Heres The Stock-market Trade This Hedge-fund Star Is Most Excited About Right Now

“I’m interested in stocks that went from selling software to subscription models,” says Larry Hite. Read more

Have You Started Saving For Your Parents Old Age?

Most Americans don’t, but they probably should. Read more

Turbo Charging Your Retirement Savings Later In Life Is Harder Than You Think

Taking a nontraditional job late in life will likely hurt your retirement, this study indicates. Read more

Market Extra: Heres How One Wall Street Data Guru Looks At Anonymous Job Reviews To Make Money

Neuberger Berman’s Recce says market-beating returns will come from investors who make better use of existing datasets... Read more

At 50, American Express Most Famous Card No Longer Holds Its Charge

Amex’s Green Card got a makeover and switched from being a charge card to a credit card. Read more

Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing: Wall Street Doubles Down On China While Corporate America Now Moves The Other Way

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and BlackRock’s Larry Fink tout “corporate responsibility” while betting on a totalitaria... Read more