Text size Bed Bath & Beyond reported plummeting sales, raising doubts over whether it can pull off a turnaround. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Three bathroom merchants slipped on a bar of soap this past week. I’m not big on arbitrary stock market definitions, but I’m pretty sure that’s known as a bearish nude sprawl. Technically, it ...

Dealmaking fees at top investment banks slumped by as much as 56% during the first half of 2022, as recessionary fears and rising interest rates have halted a boom that broke records last year. A sharp downturn in equity capital markets activity, as both the surge in special purpose acquisition companies last year tumbled and initial public offerings ...

Dear MarketWatch, I am a year and a half away from retiring. I own a home in Illinois and a modest vacation home in Wisconsin. I would like to sell my primary home, and save several hundred dollars per month. I would end up with $100,000 cash from the sale. I would like to rent ...

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Dear Quentin, I own a rental property single-family home. I rent the rooms out individually for $1,200 per month plus utilities (about $1,300 all in). I have a very good track record of maintaining full occupancy. One of the tenants is my sister, who has lived in the house for 10 years.  Due to our ...

By Chris Wack Eargo Inc. shares were down 14% to $1.08 Monday after the medical device company said it has signed a definitive agreement with Patient Square Capital to raise $100 million through the sale of senior secured convertible notes, with an additional $25 million future investment subject to certain conditions. The company said it ...

Dylan Holland and Breanna Cameron started shopping for their first home in the Atlanta suburbs in December 2021, with a budget of about $350,000. They quickly discovered they would have to do a lot more than they had planned to get a home. The couple wanted to buy before Mr. Holland’s lease ended in July ...

Investors withdrew billions of dollars out of U.S. investment-grade corporate bonds and related exchange-traded funds over the past week as the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes plans feed fears of an economic downturn.  U.S. high-grade funds and ETFs saw the biggest weekly outflows of $8.9 billion in the week ended on June 22 from a ...

Text size Juul can appeal the FDA ban if it chooses. Mario Tama/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has banned all of Juul Labs’ vape products from the U.S. market in a widely anticipated move that had already been discounted in shares of Altria Group, the cigarette maker that paid $13 billion in 2018 ...

Citigroup has shifted its top dealmaker in the Nordic region to lead its commercial banking operation in Europe as it embarks on an aggressive expansion that will see 900 bankers added over the next three years globally. Alexander Stiris has been named head of Citi’s commercial banking unit for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, ...