The finances of Americans may not be as good as they look from the outside. Despite optimistic metrics like a nine-year-long bullish, if volatile, stock market, higher than expected job and wage growth, and consumer confidence levels nearing record highs, millions of Americans continue to struggle,…

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The Justice Department is preparing to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is increasingly optimistic it will be able to get him into a U.S. courtroom, according to people in Washington familiar with the matter. Over the past year, U.S. prosecutors have discussed several types of charges…

Having Amazon as a neighbor could result in very different consequences for homeowners and renters. Amazon AMZN, -0.35% confirmed Tuesday that it will split its second headquarters, also known as HQ2, across Long Island City, N.Y., and Arlington Country, Va. The two location emerged victorious from…

Snap Inc.’s head of content plans to leave the social-media company by year’s end, bringing to at least a half dozen the number of executives who have left the firm over the past year. Nick Bell, who in a note to employees on Monday said he is taking time off before “deciding on my next adventure,”…

Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group. His donation sparked a backlash from his colleagues. Six months later, he was out.…

An executive with Amazon’s cloud-computing unit snapped back at Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, who had called out the retail internet giant as recently as last month for relying on Oracle software to track transactions and store information — this, despite the fact that Amazon sells its…

If I ever have trouble sleeping at night, I close my eyes and think of Clash, my dog who was named after the rock band. Giving him a home was the best decision my family ever made. He had the proud, handsome face of a Jack Russell with the wobbly behind of a Dachshund. He only ever wanted to chase a…

Yelp Inc.’s glass jaw was shattered yet again Thursday, as earnings sent its shares plunging nearly 30% in late trading, underscoring its ultimate fragility as a business based on reviews. Yelp YELP, -2.99% reported disappointing third-quarter sales and predicted another disappointment for the…

Worried about what the elections will mean for you and your money? Relax. When it comes to your money, you’re better off paying attention to these ten other things, all of which are more important. Unlike politics, you can actually exert more direct control. Here are 10 ways you can help change your…

Michael Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist, says so-called growth stocks will likely remain under pressure after an ugly October saw the shares of popular technology and internet-related companies tumble. Wilson, in a Sunday note, said growth strategies, which center on investing…

Without quite confirming but far from denying the accuracy of a weekend story in the Washington Post that Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.00% is in advanced talks to put its secondary headquarters, or “HQ2,” in the Washington, D.C., suburb Crystal City, Va., the company’s director of economic development…

Yikes. The stock-market rollercoaster ride is enough to get any investor a little nervous. Yet, so far swings in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s DJIA, -0.43% and S&P 500 SPX, -0.63% are still only a tremor on any longer-term view. Stock prices are higher than they were even one year ago.…

Apple Inc. reported better-than-expected financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter, but shares sank in after-hours trading Thursday after the company delivered a disappointing forecast for the holiday period. The trillion-dollar company delivered earnings per share of $2.91 on revenue of $62.9…

Yes — cash is back. Once again people who don’t want to take on the risks of the stock market or the bond market or the gold market or any other market — and just want a reasonable rate of return on their savings without having to worry — are starting to feel some love. Interest rates on two-year…

Altaira Wealth Ralph Acampora is bearish on stocks Prominent market technician Ralph Acampora says the stock market is in bad shape and it’s worse than many on Wall Street investors appreciate. A pioneer in the field of chart-based trading, Acampora said the technical damage that has resulted in the…

Facebook Inc. has started banning pages affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group that was involved in a violent brawl in New York City earlier this month. Business Insider first reported late Tuesday that the Proud Boys and founder Gavin McInnis will be banned from Facebook and…

Facebook Inc. reported third-quarter earnings Tuesday after the closing bell, beating Wall Street expectations after the company has been handling numerous public-relations crises over the past several months. Facebook FB, +2.91% stock dropped roughly 3% in the extended session before climbing back…

Red Hat Inc.’s stock soared Monday after International Business Machines Corp. promised to pay a premium of more than 60% for the open-source software company to boost its hybrid-cloud service. Even with the high price, analysts speculated that a bidding war may be in the works, while also…

International Business Machines Corp. said Sunday it plans to be the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider by acquiring open-source software company Red Hat Inc. for 63% above Friday’s closing price. IBM IBM, -1.31% said Red Hat RHT, -3.19% agreed to be acquired for $190 a share in cash in a deal…

Americans are afraid — and not just about the recent volatility in the stock market. Some 23% of people say lack of emergency savings is the one financial issue that keeps them up at night, followed by 22% who say they don’t have enough retirement savings, 20% who fear they’ll be the victim of some…

Snap Inc. is doing a better job of monetizing its user base, but that loyal following continues to shrink. The social-media company on Thursday posted better-than-expected financial results for its third quarter, but Snap’s SNAP, +6.07% daily-active-user count declined once again, in line with…

Telecommunications companies like AT&T Inc. T, +1.07% and Comcast Corp. CMCSA, -0.28% are grappling with an ever-growing challenge from streaming giant Netflix Inc. The two largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. have seen their pay-TV subscriber numbers shrink in recent years as customers look to…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has dominant positions in search, advertising and mobile devices, but the company has had to play from behind when it comes to mobile payments. Google is very much still interested in enabling financial transactions, however, and the company’s payments general manager Caesar…

Child-care costs are the rise. Parents across the country spent $9,000 to $9,600 annually for one child’s day care last year, up roughly 7.5% on the year, according to a national average costs released Monday by Child Care Aware of America. “No matter how you look at the statistics, child care is…

Stripe Chief Operating Officer Claire Hughes Johnson on Sunday took aim at the internet economy’s overreliance on advertising, saying that the consolidation of online power into a few hands has led to “unintended consequences.” During a keynote address at Money20/20, a financial-technology…

Dear Moneyist, I purchased a duplex 20 years ago and am considering selling it. I paid $150,000 for the duplex, and spent about $55,000 on updates and renovations. A real estate agent has suggested selling it for $565,000, as a duplex, or converting it to condominiums and selling each for $300,000.…

After the 2016 presidential elections were found to be affected by Russian hacking and misinformation campaigns, efforts are being made ahead of the November midterms to prevent such attacks. More than half of voters are concerned about their personal data following the 2016 elections, but more than…

The 1% has never had it so good. The average wage for the 1% of income earners hit $719,000 per year in 2017, up 3.7% on the year, exceeding their peak of $716,000 per year just before the Great Recession, according to a report released Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive,…

EBay.com Inc. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. accusing the company of illegally poaching sellers on its marketplace via eBay’s internal messaging system. The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County in California, accuses Amazon of having “perpetrated a scheme to infiltrate and…

The latest tariffs enacted by the Trump administration against China are not expected to help solve the problem of intellectual-property theft from American companies, and instead could hurt U.S. companies, especially in the technology sector. When corporate earnings-reporting season begins this…

Are you an Apple person or an Android person? The question can determine who you date, how much you make in the markets — and how secure your data is. Google GOOG, +2.85% released its Pixel 3 this week, a new smartphone running on Android that is known for its high-quality camera. But security on…

Married men sit on the top of the wage ladder. The wages of married men far surpass those of all of those groups. They exceed $80,000 per year by their peak earning years, while all the other groups barely graze $50,000 per year, according to data from the University of Minnesota and IPUMS-USA, a…

The departure of Instagram’s founders marks a pivotal and potentially perilous moment for Facebook. It has long been rumored that Kevin Systrom, who maintained an iron grip as chief product officer of the Facebook FB, -0.30% subsidiary, aggressively defended his fast-growing and youthful fanbase…

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai plans to appear at a private meeting of top GOP lawmakers on Friday and again at a public hearing this year, responding to new scrutiny of the company’s work with China, its market power and alleged bias against conservatives in its search results. The move comes…

Sirius XM Holdings Inc. and Pandora Media Inc. hinted on Monday that their proposed merger will allow the combined company to reach millions of users who have decided that Sirius XM is not worth the money. A Sirius-Pandora combination has been viewed as largely inevitable for more than a year, but…

WASHINGTON — Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed ways they might be able to tweak the company’s search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and…

Nebulous cloud growth at Oracle Corp. may not come as a shock this quarter, with investors and analysts anticipating that the enterprise software giant won’t break out cloud numbers, following the surprise omission of that metric three months ago. Oracle ORCL, +0.59% is scheduled to report its…

Would you spend up to $1,500 for the iPhone XS Max? Or even $750 for the iPhone XR? With most trade-in offers, it’s possible to sell an old iPhone to a resale site or online retailer for half the cost the iPhone XR, although you will still need to sign a two-year contract. Apple AAPL, -1.24%…

Think twice the next time you’re hailing a ride to the airport. Have you ever gotten the feeling a taxi driver is taking you for a ride? Consider taking a Lyft or Uber instead, researchers say. Taxis take unnecessarily long detours on about 7% of routes from airports, a study distributed this month…