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Is Your Income Protected Enough From Disability? If you ever need to make a disability claim, it quickly becomes clear that the specifics matter.

10 years ago I signed a student-loan agreement without reading it, and now I'm afraid I'll never own a home Reading financial jargon at 18 was overwhelming, so Leo Aquino admitted to signing whatever he needed to sign to start classes. Unlike federal student loans, private loans are not covered by student loan forgiveness plans. And this is his story of how it affected his future home-buying plans.

8 Opportunities In Your Paycheck You May Be Missing Let's examine some of the opportunities and potential pitfalls in your paycheck and how they can affect your financial well-being:

The paradox of the American West Western states have plenty of wide open land. So why can't they build more homes?

Barron's Daily: Arm and Adobe Show It’s Not Just About Being an AI Stock. Timing Matters. Your briefing of what you need to know for markets in the days ahead, including exclusive commentary from Barron's and MarketWatch writers.

The $100trn battle for the world’s wealthiest people Two financial giants look likely to crush the competition

The Exact Age When You Make Your Best Financial Decisions Research has pinpointed the prime years for making smart financial decisions.

7 Tax Strategies Financial Advisors Need to Understand A financial planner doesn't need to be an IRS expert in order to grasp important tax moves that will help clients achieve their goals.

High Earners 50 and Up Get Two-Year Reprieve From IRS on 401(k) Rule Roth-style catch-up contributions now won’t be mandated until 2026, not 2024.

Barron's Daily: The Nvidia Distraction Is Over. Jackson Hole, Powell, Bonds Take Center Stage. Your daily briefing with what you need to know for markets in the days ahead, including exclusive commentary from Barron's and MarketWatch writers.

How To Move Past Worst-Case-Scenario Thinking How to Move Past Worst-Case-Scenario Thinking It’s easy for leaders to get caught up in worst-case-scenario thinking.

3 Reasons to Buy a Dashboard Camera for Your Car—and 4 Reasons Not To More Americans are installing security cameras in their vehicles to prove their innocence in case of accidents or thwart intruders. But it’s hardly a no-brainer decision.

Value vs. Growth: 4 Pros Lay Out the Catalysts, From the Fed to Earnings Growth stocks performed better than value names for more than a decade, although that relationship reversed itself last year. Industry pros weigh in on what could come next.

Lots of US Homeowners Want to Move. They Just Have Nowhere to Go Locked into cheaper borrowing costs and unable to find a new place that fits their budgets, countless people are opting to remain in their current homes, adding to an acute shortage of available properties.

Tackling Retirement’s Tricky Tax Questions IRA and 401(k) tax questions never end, so here are answers to the latest ones from readers of the Wall Street Journal.

Don’t Look Up – Is There A Commercial Real Estate Comet Heading Our Way? They're everywhere, all around us. Many city dwellers pass by them every day, not thinking about what’s up there…or what isn't. It’s the hundreds if not thousands of landmark skyscrapers and gleaming midlevel high-rises that define the skylines of every major city center in America, as well as...

Everyday Investors Are Thriving in a World Awash in Yield Cash-like investments are offering their highest rates since 2001, offsetting rising interest costs.

In Life (And Retirement) Money Won’t Buy You Happiness The Beatles once said that money can’t buy you love, but money also can’t buy you happiness. Financial planners see people from across the entire spectrum of wealth, and can tell you firsthand that there isn’t a correlation between more wealth and more happiness.

Price-to-Rent Ratio: Determining if It's Better To Buy or Rent The price-to-rent ratio is the ratio of home prices to annualized rent in a given location. This ratio is used as a benchmark for estimating whether it's cheaper to rent or own property. The price-to-rent ratio is used as an indicator for whether housing markets are fairly valued, or in a bubble.

Housing’s Recession Already Happened The housing market is coming back, lowering the odds of an overall economic downturn.

Five Ways the Bull Market Makes Investors Nervous Investors can’t stop looking over their shoulders for major risks looming in markets.

Can You Use Life Insurance To Buy a House? Life insurance may be able to be used to buy a house, depending on the policy.

U.S. Inflation Slides To 2-Year Low—But Price Increases Stay Sticky A roughly 20% annual decline in gas prices helped drive down inflation, but other big items like rent and dining out keep getting more expensive.

Investing in Stocks Might Have Fixed Social Security, but ‘the Window Has Closed’ Even some who like the idea of investing the Social Security trust fund in the stock market say it’s too late to do so.

Markets’ Monster 2023 Rally Defied All Expectations Stocks burst out of a bear market, with the Nasdaq Composite up 30% and on course for its best first half of a year since the 1980s.

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Six questions facing U.S. stock investors as 2023′s second half nears The U.S. stock market has powered higher in the first half of this year despite numerous obstacles, from banking sector turmoil to recurring doubts about the economy’s health. Here are six key questions investors are posing as they assess the market’s prospects:

What Recession? Get Ready for a ‘Rolling Expansion.’ The U.S. could experience a “rolling recession” followed by a “rolling expansion” as the parts of the economy that weakened first start to recover, according to longtime strategist Ed Yardeni.

4 Steps To Plan For Repaying Your Student Loans Once The Pause Ends Instead of waiting for the next government announcement on the student loan pause, here are three simple tips that you can start today if you’re worried about repayments.