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The bottom line: Over longer-term horizons, the level of Berkshire Hathaway's cash and short-term investments contains valuable information about the stock market's prospects. Its near-record level ...

This letter is in response to a question you received about having one or more brokerage accounts. There is also the question of an insured Securities Investor Protection Corp. limit of $500,000 per ...

Also, the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF KRE has popped over 10% since Nov. 5, while the Invesco KBW Bank ETF KBWB is up 9.2% and the SPDR S&P Bank ETF KBE has gained nearly 9% in the same period, ...

Applying for retirement benefits can be confusing, and it's all too easy to end up with permanent cuts to your benefits As a certified financial planner, Sherry Finkel Murphy thought she was ...

The median age at which retirees claim Social Security is age 63 When Tom retired in 2015 at age 62 from a career in the energy-conservation industry, he waited a year until he claimed Social Security ...

Applications to M.B.A. programs have increased sharply this year. Here's how to tell if business school is right for you. A lot more people are applying to business school these days. But that doesn't ...

Since the start of December, breadth - typically measured by comparing the number of stocks that are climbing to the number that are falling - has deteriorated dramatically, even as the S&P 500 has ...

Christmas has come early for the Magnificent Seven. As of Wednesday's close, the group of megacap tech companies has seen its collective valuation surpass $18 trillion for the first time ever, ...

'Everything is buried under layers of everything else' said one patient advocate. The healthcare system needs to work better to defuse Americans' frustrations and address their medical needs, ...

South Korea's parliament on Saturday voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree earlier this month, leaving the country politically paralysed until the ...

A TD Cowen analyst thinks Amazon can further penetrate lower-priced household goods and see accelerating revenue from its AWS cloud business next year Amazon.com Inc.'s stock has been a winner this ...