Thomas Barwick Buying a first home is always a huge decision. It’s even bigger when the market has been as hot as it has in the last two years. Financial advisors say this could be the worst market for home buyers we’ve ever seen, and caution clients to perhaps wait. Certified financial planner Rick Kahler,
Dr. Salma Elfaki examines 16-year-old Diego Alvarez, a patient in a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial for adolescents being conducted by Accel Research Sites with Nona Pediatric Center in Orlando, Florida, September 25, 2021. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is 93% effective at protecting against hospitalization in
If you’ve ever received financial advice, you’re likely to see a lot of the same traditional advice over and over. That’s because the world of personal finance can be esoteric and even scary, and the experts dispensing that advice want to impart the strategies that work the best for the majority of people. More from
Starship prototype 20 is stacked on top of Super Heavy Booster 4 on August 6, 2021. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX has become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, and Morgan Stanley believes the Starship rockets the venture is developing will have wide-reaching implications. Starship is the massive, next-generation rocket SpaceX is developing to be
Shoppers at a New York supermarket on Aug. 11, 2021. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images One looming question for the U.S. economy is how long inflation is here to stay. Based on recent government data, there is good reason for asking. The Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change over
Even before the pandemic, families were starting to question the value of a college degree. Now, high schoolers are putting more emphasis on schools that will offer the best returns. “What is going to be the return on investment?,” said Robert Franek, editor in chief of The Princeton Review. “It is the question that students
Despite equity markets struggling in Q3 the new issues market continues its lively trend with plenty of companies lining up to list.
The HSBC Holdings Plc building, left, and the Standard Chartered Plc building stand in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Roy Liu | Bloomberg | Getty Images HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank are among more than a dozen lenders that can start selling investment products from Tuesday, under a new cross-border investment scheme
Note: Each year we review and improve the methodology of the Index. For that reason, prior editions are not comparable to the results in this 2020 edition. All data and methodological notes are accessible in our GitHub repository. Below is a preview of the 2021 Index. To access the full report, click the download button above.
High-rise apartment buildings at China Evergrande Group’s under-construction Riverside Palace development in Taicang, Jiangsu province, China, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese developer Evergrande made little progress toward complying with Beijing’s crackdown on real estate debt — until it was too late for investors who poured
Many people dream of starting a new life in a new country. But problems, such as earning money, finding a place to live and meeting people, hold them back. Here are two women travelers who didn’t let these details stop them from moving to Europe — and how they feel about their decisions today. From
An animated trajectory map shows the path of the Lucy mission, with the spacecraft (blue) launching from the Earth (green) out to the asteroids around Jupiter (orange). NASA NASA’s latest exploration spacecraft launched over the weekend, beginning a 12-year journey to visit Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. A tool familiar to Wall Street was used to craft