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Cannabis Watch: Cannabis Companies Are Having A Horrible Summer As Scandals Mount And Stocks Slide

The cannabis sector has hit a three-month summer slump, weighed down by a series of scandals, regulatory deadlock and a ... Read more

Outside The Box: How Do You Balance Saving For The Future With Your Desire For Shiny, New Things?

Physical wealth and social wealth are vastly different. Read more

Buffett Buys More Bank Of America Stock, With Stakes Value Rising To $29 Billion

Bank of America Corp. is by far Warren Buffett’s favorite bank, as his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has boosted its stake i... Read more

Project Syndicate: What The U.S. Misses About China: Beijing Takes The Long View

China’s greatest strength is that it takes the long view, writes Stephen Roach. Read more

Harry Boxers Four Stock Breakouts To Watch

In focus: Anika Therapeutics, AudioCodes, Owens Corning and Overstock.com. Read more

Mark Hulbert: Almost All Retirees Make This Mistake

Portfolio rebalancing is universally practiced — and rarely examined. Read more

Market Extra: Regulators Fear Funds Holding Hard-to-trade Debt Are Unprepared For Outflows

Investors worry that mutual funds and exchange-traded funds filled with illiquid bonds and loans issued by highly levera... Read more

The Fed: Fed Still Has Green Light To Ease After Second-quarter GDP

The Federal Reserve is still expected to cut interest rates next week despite the 2.1% annual growth rate in the second ... Read more

Fears Over A Bond Bubble Intensify As Negative Yielding Debt Nears $13trn

Global investors fear the bond market is in a bubble, as dovish central bank rhetoric and geopolitical uncertainty have... Read more

Spotting The Next Bear Market, From Money Manager James Stack, Who Sidestepped Two Of Them

With stock markets knocking on the door of record highs, MarketWatch caught up with InvesTech Research’s James Stack, ... Read more

Heres One Scary Way Being Overweight Can Affect The Brain In Old Age

In some scenarios, the brain may seem as though it’s aged 10 years Read more

Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Could Add Over $100,000 To Social Security Benefits For Many Workers

Recent proposals to increase the federal minimum wage might help people save for retirement in other ways too. Read more

Bond Report: U.S. And Eurozone Government Bond Yields Rebound After Draghi Disappoints Bulls

U.S. Treasury yields and European bond yields climb Thursday, after trading at session lows, with investors blaming the ... Read more

Market Snapshot: Stocks Retreat On Busy Day Of Earnings, After ECB Signals Lower Rates Ahead

Stock-index futures were lower midsession Thursday on some earnings disappointments and despite the European Central Ban... Read more