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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE
“For anyone who possesses an ounce of reason, it is clear that what the market is doing is simply following the path of least resistance,” one analyst says. See full story.
After Dow inclusion news, Salesforce stock soars on reveal of first $5 billion quarter
A day after Salesforce.com Inc. was announced as the first cloud-software entry into the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the San Francisco company announced that it had collected $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, sending its stock toward fresh record highs. See full story.
This eye-opening experience has me rethinking how Social Security figures into my retirement planning
Here’s how retiring early affects your Social Security benefits. See full story.
Facebook and Twitter are concerned about what is going to happen after Election Day
In what is shaping up as a newfangled nightmare in their efforts to stop election interference, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and others are as concerned about misinformation and other issues in days after the U.S. election as they are in the months preceding it. See full story.
Why Dow’s shake-up is bad for stocks added to it—and less bad for those booted
Inclusion in the 124-year old, blue-chip equity benchmark is usually coveted by major companies but recent history suggests that the near-term performance of shares added to the stock-market gauge actually perform relatively worse, while those booted from the index have outperformed, based on data over the past 20 years, according to Dow Jones Market Data. See full story.
MARKETWATCH PERSONAL FINANCE
In the absence of therapeutic treatments or a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, herd immunity suggests that there’s safety in numbers. But how realistic is that goal? See full story.
