Corporate earnings have been growing at a blistering pace. Here's why that's not likely to last.

My 91-year-old mother is bedridden in an assisted-living memory-care facility in Virginia. She owns about $100,000 of Consolidated Edison stock that is held at a company I'll call Acme Corp., a ...

His argument is essentially that, since my parents provided the money for the Roth, they have a say in how I invest it: "We gave you the money, and this is what we prefer." I understand and appreciate ...

One of the more extreme approaches to dramatically cutting living expenses is to retire abroad, which is what we did in 2010 when we moved to Cuenca, Ecuador. But relocating to another country isn't ...

Cook has embraced these traits as strengths rather than weaknesses. In 1998, he left his vice president role at Compaq Computer - the world's largest PC maker at the time - to join a nearly bankrupt ...

I chose Contractor B. I was willing to pay an extra $6,000 because I believed I was paying for quality workmanship, excellent customer service and a dramatically faster turnaround. Surprise.

"A lot of low-wage jobs are going to go away," said Gad Levanon, chief economist at the Burning Glass Institute, a labor research firm. He pointed out that clerical and office-support jobs have been ...

The S&P 500 may at times seem relatively calm on the surface despite some violent moves in individual stock prices. But stepping back, the U.S. stock market appears relatively healthy based on ...

Notice that, in each case, there are compelling reasons to explicitly avoid extrapolating recent earnings growth rates into the future. Sundaram writes that these factors "will create some meaningful ...

Every time I have to redo something she did or correct her, I leave a comment explaining why. She is always combative.

Normally, withdrawals from a retirement plan trigger taxes and a penalty if taken prior to age 591/2. Rollovers are transactions that allow the movement of funds from one retirement plan to another.

After a mid-month swoon, stocks have stabilized not far below their all-time highs, thanks in part to a reprieve in the ...