Depending on when you’re planning a traveling to Disneyland or Walt Disney World, your trip may have just gotten more expensive. Disney DIS, -0.97% altered the pricing for single and multi-day tickets and annual passes at its two U.S. resorts this week. The change in prices comes as both DisneylandRead More →
Julio Cortez Matt King, chief executive officer for FanDuel. MIAMI — FanDuel CEO Matt King has lived in New York for so long that he “forgot what the sun looked like,” but he got a reminder during his trip to watch Super Bowl 54 in Miami, where 72 and sunnyRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My 93-year-old father has dementia. He married his second wife, who is 91, four years ago. He did not make a last will and testament, and cannot legally make one now because of his dementia. He is not expected to live much longer because of heart problems. MyRead More →
LAS VEGAS — She came. She spoke. And the tech world behaved. Ivanka Trump was greeted with polite applause despite some bruising words in the days leading up to Tuesday’s keynote presentation on the future of work at CES with Consumer Technology Association Chief Executive Gary Shapiro. “There really isRead More →
As the top few hundred tennis players in the world prepare to compete in the $71 million Australian Open, thousands of others are playing in small tournaments you’ve never heard of to win enough matches to one day play in a Grand Slam event like the one in Melbourne. MarketWatchRead More →
Planning to sell a home in Raleigh, N.C.? There’s a decent chance that an “iBuyer” will purchase it. Raleigh had the largest share of homes bought by companies that use technology to make instant offers on homes. Nearly 7% of homes sold in Raleigh in the third quarter of 2019Read More →
Feel like the rent’s gotten too damn high? Then you might just live in Austin, Texas. Residents in the Lone Star State’s capital saw the biggest increase in the total amount they paid in rent between 2010 and 2019, according to a new report from real-estate company Zillow ZG, +1.25%Read More →
‘Here is this guy that comes out with his manifesto, holding the Confederate flag, and had just hijacked everything that people thought of … people saw [the Confederate flag] as service and sacrifice and heritage, but once he did that, there was no way to overcome it.’ That was Trump’sRead More →
President Donald Trump’s months-long delicate dance with Apple Inc. and its chief executive, Tim Cook, reached a breakthrough of sorts late Wednesday, when the president said he is “looking” at exempting the iPhone maker from a coming round of China tariffs. “We have to treat Apple on a somewhat similarRead More →
It’s less taxing to retire to Wyoming. While retirees flock to Florida in part for its tax-friendliness, those who really want to save big on their tax bill may want to head west. An analysis released this week by the personal-finance publisher Kiplinger revealed that the state of Wyoming wasRead More →
The recent run-up in semiconductor stocks hit a speed bump Tuesday afternoon that could turn into much more. Texas Instruments Inc. TXN, -1.80% gave a forecast that was much worse than expected in a Tuesday earnings report, with a new revenue estimate range that fell as much as a half-billionRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My dad wrote a will before he passed away, but my stepmother wouldn’t let us know anything about it. I know my father wanted to provide for her while she was living. I was told he wouldn’t let her sell the house while she was alive. She justRead More →
President Donald Trump often refers to the mainstream media as “the enemy of the people,” and in a violent fake video shown at a conference for his supporters at his Trump National Doral resort in Miami last week, he takes matters into his own hands, according to footage obtained byRead More →
More than half a million people are homeless each night in the United States, a new White House report has found. And nearly half of them are concentrated in one state: California. All told, 47% of all unsheltered homeless people nationwide — meaning those who sleep in areas not meantRead More →
“Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.” Beto O’Rourke That line above came from former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke as he answered a question at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston. TheRead More →
Walmart is facing increasing pressure to pull guns from its shelves in the wake of the recent shootings at its El Paso, Texas and Southaven, Miss. stores that killed 24 people. Shoppers were also on edge after a man in body armor and armed with a rifle sparked panic atRead More →
The number of properties with foreclosure filings nationwide is a mere fraction of what it was during the height of the financial crisis. But at the local level, some markets are showing signs of weakness — and that could represent a reason for worry for homeowners or an opportunity forRead More →
The “Amazon effect” is still buffeting Northern Virginia. But instead of disrupting industries and putting brick-and-mortar stores out of business, the retail behemoth is dashing the hopes of home buyers. The infographic above shows just how frenzied the market in Alexandria City, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Fairfax City, and FallsRead More →
One bet. $1,500 dollars. No tears. That is the essence of a bold wager, carrying 200-to-1 odds, that an unnamed gambler placed back in November. The wager, which was rapidly making the rounds on social media on Monday, was placed in November, waaay before the NCAA’s selection committee identified allRead More →
Looking to buy a home? You might want to relocate to Virginia Beach, Va. The metropolitan area ranked as the No. 1 home buyer market in the country, according to a study from online real-estate brokerage Owners.com ASPS, +1.66% The report analyzed the housing markets in metropolitan areas with moreRead More →
Anthony Scaramucci is back at SkyBridge Capital, the hedge-fund firm he founded in 2005 (and attempted, controversially and unsuccessfully, to sell to a Chinese conglomerate in 2017), but that hasn’t stopped the Trump ally and former White House staffer from offering advice to his former boss. During a phone interviewRead More →