WSJ Your Money Briefing

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Wall Street Journal energy reporter Stephanie Yang explains why the number of active oil rigs in the U.S. has fallen to a 17-month low.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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07.19.2019 Interest Rates: July Data Adds Confusion to Fed-Watching Some investors have predicted a 25-basis point interest rate reduction by the Federal Reserve in late July, while others feel a 50-basis point move is possible. Markets reporter Akane Otani explains how July's economic data has cast uncertainty on the ...
07.18.2019 Shale Production Slows as Oil Rigs Go Inactive Wall Street Journal energy reporter Stephanie Yang explains why the number of active oil rigs in the U.S. has fallen to a 17-month low.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.17.2019 Corporate Pensions Could Suffer From Lower Interest Rates Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street columnist Lauren Silva Laughlin explains how an expected interest rate reduction by the Federal Reserve could negatively impact corporate pension funds.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.16.2019 Lower Interest Rates Likely to Curb Banks' Earnings Wall Street Journal reporter Telis Demos explains the relationship between a potential interest rate reduction by the Federal Reserve, what banks charge to loan money, deposit rates they give to consumers, and banks' earnings.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
07.15.2019 Is the Party Over? Earnings Could Sour Wall Street's Mood Heard on the Street columnist Justin Lahart explains how some on Wall Street have not priced in the likelihood of disappointing second-quarter earnings from many companies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.12.2019 Your 401(k) Plan Is Getting More Income Options Annuities, essentially guaranteed monthly income for as long as a retiree lives, are coming to 401(k) plans. Wall Street Journal reporter Yuka Hayashi explains how annuities could be beneficial to retirees unable to cover their basic living expenses.Learn more about ...
07.11.2019 Health Law: Court Comments Cloud Stocks' Future Comments by a federal appeals court on the Affordable Care Act could paint a very cloudy future for health care stocks. Heard on the Street columnist Charley Grant explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.10.2019 Fire Up the Grill! Propane Prices Have Simmered Down Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember explains why propane prices have dropped by about 50% in the past year, and how the U.S. became the world's largest supplier.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.09.2019 Bank Stocks Might Not Be as Cheap as They Appear Have shares of the big banks priced in enough of a possibility of economic bad news on the horizon? Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street deputy editor Aaron Back explains how not forecasting negative events could make the stocks ...
07.08.2019 Gen Z in the Workplace: College Grads Supervising Seniors? The arrival of Generation Z (those born after 1997) in the workplace means there could be as many as five generations working at a company simultaneously. XpertHR's Robert Teachout explains how employers can better understand the needs of different generations ...
07.05.2019 Vacation With Your Signifcant Other: Who Pays for What? Wall Street Journal 'Young Money' columnist Kevin McAllister discusses the dilemma often facing people vacationing with friends or romantic partners regarding how expenses are divided.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.02.2019 Food Companies Bet on Americans Getting 'the Munchies' Food companies are investing in the snacking industry, even as growth in the category has been uneven. Wall Street Journal reporter Micah Maidenberg explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.01.2019 Americans' Spending Is Up, But Fears Persist Wall Street Journal economics reporter Sarah Chaney explains what's driving consumer spending, which rose in April and May, and what may cause them to curtail spending later his year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.28.2019 Wall Street in 2019: A Look Ahead to the 2nd Half Federated chief equity market strategist Phil Orlando looks ahead to Wall Street in the second half of 2019 and what challenges potentially facing investors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.27.2019 Options Traders Don't See This Market Rally Ending Soon Wall Street Journal reporter Gunjan Banerji explains what is spurring optimism among options traders with regard to the future of the current market rally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.26.2019 Can't Buy Me Love? Facebook Aims to Firm Up User Support Facebook's anticipated significant advertising ramp-up is intended to secure its existing user base. Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street columnist Laura Forman discusses challenges the social media giant faces.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.25.2019 Why Investors Feel Glum Even as Markets Flirt With Records Wall Street Journal markets reporter Akane Otani explains why market observers and investors are pessimistic about the rest of 2019, even as the major markets approach record territory.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.24.2019 Workers Not Threatened by Artificial Intelligence Half of workers polled feel A.I. and automation will not have a negative impact on their jobs. Robert Half's Paul McDonald explains how workers and managers actually feel new technology will increase workers' productivity. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
06.21.2019 Gold Prices Are Glittering as Fed Talks Interest Rate Cuts Gold prices have surged to nearly six-year highs as the Federal Reserve considers reducing interest rates. Wall Street Journal reporter Joe Wallace explains other commodities whose prices have also risen, and others whose prices have not.Learn more about your ad ...
06.20.2019 Possible Interest Rates Cuts to Come: How to Invest PGIM Fixed Income chief investment strategist Robert Tipp explains how investors can play the market to be in position for expected interest rate reductions over the next 12 to 16 months.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.19.2019 Why Private Equity Megafunds Aren't Beating the Market Wall Street Journal reporter Miriam Gottfried explains why private equity megafunds (minimum $10 billion) have struggled in recent years to beat the public markets in investment returns.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.18.2019 Gucci's Hottest Sales Location: The Airport Air passengers with extra time are spending billions buying luxury goods in airport terminals. Wall Street Journal reporter Sharon Terlep explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.17.2019 Uber, Lyft Stocks in Line for Millions in Index Cash Companies whose IPOs occured on or before May 10, incluing Uber and Lyft, are set to join the FTSE Russell 1000 and 2000 indexes. Wall Street Journal reporter Corrie Driebush explains how that could impact their share prices.Learn more about ...
06.14.2019 Companies Helping Workers Build Emergency Funds More companies are offering financial incentives to employees to encourage them to open savings and retirement account. Wall Street Journal retirement reporter Anne Tergesen explains how the companies benefit.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.13.2019 IPO Market Could Be a Lifeline for Neiman Marcus, PetSmart Wall Street Journal reporter Soma Biswas explains how the IPOs of properties owned by struggling retailers Neiman Marcus and PetSmart could help patch financial tensions between the companies and their creditors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.12.2019 Crowdsourcing Often Sparks New Business Ideas In addition to relying on research and development staff to conceive new business ideas, many companies are tapping into the brainpower of rank-and-file workers to help move forward. Wall Street Journal news editor Henry Williams has details.Learn more about your ...
06.10.2019 Frackers Drill for Cash Elsewhere After Wall Street Exits Wall Street Journal energy reporter Rebecca Elliott explains how fracking companies have had to search elsewhere for cash after Wall Street investors became impatient waiting for the companies to report profits.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.07.2019 Millennials vs. Baby Boomers: The Investment Challenge Should you put your money in shares of companies that serve millennials (born from 1981-1996) or baby boomers (born in the 1940s)? Heard on the Street columnist Mike Bird discusses a pair of portfolios created to track each age group's ...
06.06.2019 Farming in 2019: The Farmer's Almanac Doesn't Apply This year's extremely wet planting season and catastrophic flooding has caused farmers, as well as investors, to cast aside traditional planning tools like The Farmer's Almanac to gauge weather. Heard on the Street's Lauren Silva Laughlin explains. Learn more about ...
06.05.2019 Square's Receipts Are Going to the Wrong People Mistyped credit card numbers or newly assigned phone numbers have caused receipts generated by the Square payment processing app to wind up in unintended hands. Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Rudegair explains how the wayward receipts have resulted in blown ...
06.04.2019 Vocational High Schools Allow Students to Enter Workforce A $16 million campus in Dallas is one of several public schools that have opened vocational and career centers nationwide to serve students who want to skip college and go right into the workforce. Wall Street Journal reporter K-12 reporter ...
06.03.2019 Roth 401(k): Your Questions Answered Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders answers some of the mountain of letters and emails sent in following her previous podcast in which she detailed differences between traditional and Roth 401(k) retirement accounts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
05.31.2019 College Enrollment Down for the 7th Straight Year The Wall Street Journal's Jake Holland explains what's behind the extended decline in college enrollment across the U.S. and the pronounced effect on smaller schools.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.30.2019 How Much Money Would You Need to Be 'Wealthy'? The latest Charles Schwab modern wealth survey highlights a disconnect between the perceptions of ourselves and our actual behaviors when it comes to investing and savings. Schwab's Terri Kallsen also explains how Americans define wealth and what they feel it ...
05.29.2019 REITs Betting Big on the Mortgage Market Real estate investment trusts, also known as REITs, are stepping up their investment in the mortgage market at levels not seen since 2013. Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Eisen explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.28.2019 $3.75M Signing Bonus: The Red-Hot Competition for CFOs Silicon Valley companies are struggling to find chief financial officers with the right set of diverse skills to help bring them to the public markets. CFO Journal editor Jack Hagel discusses the fierce competition.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
05.24.2019 U.S.-China Trade Spat: Wall Street Senses a Deal There are specific signals present that indicate Wall Street is not in panic mode sees a trade agreement between the U.S. and China as likely. Reporter Akane Otani explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.23.2019 Should a Financial Adviser Inherit a Client's Assets? A Wall Street Journal report detailing a financial adviser's inheritance of 25% of a client's assets has resulted in Congress getting involved to potentially change the law. Journal reporter Gretchen Morgenson has details.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.22.2019 Savings Account Interest Rates Are Headed Lower Wall Street Journal reporter Allison Prang explains why interest rates on savings and CDs are likely to move lower, and has tips for still finding attractive rates.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.21.2019 SEC Has Only Collected Half of $20 Billion in Fines The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has only been able to collect about half of the $20 billion in fines it has levied in the past five years. Wall Street Journal reporter Dave Michaels explains.Learn more about your ad choices. ...
05.20.2019 Why You Should Consider Investing in a Roth 401(k) Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains the differences between a traditional 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement account.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.17.2019 Should You Hand Over Personal Data to the Airlines? Airlines soon will have numerous new ways to track passengers and make note of their preferences. Wall Street Journal 'Middle Seat' columnist Scott McCartney explains how this is likely to raise new concerns about the balance between convenience and data ...
05.16.2019 Class of 2019: Lower Starting Salaries Than 2018 Grads Class of 2019 college graduates will see lower average salary increases this year compared to students who graduated in 2018. Wall Street Journal reporter Kelsey Gee explains the numbers and outlines fields where raises will actually be sizeable.Learn more about ...
05.15.2019 Why Uber and Lyft Shares Are Stuck in the Slow Lane Heard on the Street columnist Dan Gallagher explains why investors have been reluctant to bid Uber and Lyft shares above their IPO prices since going public.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.14.2019 Millennials Renting in Cities Attract a New Crop of Lenders Millennials, who might otherwise be priced out living in U.S. cities, are being targeted by new lenders offering loans similar to those offered payday loan companies in past years. Wall Street Journal reporter Will Parker explains.Learn more about your ad ...
05.13.2019 Tax Law: Gold-Star Families Get Surprise, Steep Tax Bills A change to the so-called Kiddie Tax in the nation's tax law has hit families who have lost active-duty service members hard in their wallet. Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
05.10.2019 It's Getting Harder to Secure a Small Mortgage Can a mortgage be too small? Many banks think so, and as a result it's getting harder for low- and middle-income consumers to borrow. Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Eisen explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.09.2019 Price Wars Drive Coast-to-Coast Nonstop Airfares Lower Wall Street Journal 'Middle Seat' columnist Scott McCartney has details on price wars between airlines that have brought nonstop transcontinental airfares to significantly low levels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.08.2019 Tesla Plans to Sell Owners Cheaper Car Insurance Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will sell its car insurance to its drivers while using safety data from its vehicles in setting rates. Wall Street Journal global investing editor Geoffrey Rogow explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
05.07.2019 When Stocks Tumble, Where Does Wall Street Invest? Monday's steep selloff at the start of trading in response to a fresh U.S.-China trade spat brought to light safe investment destinations Wall Street puts its money during volatility. Journal reporter Donato Paolo Mancini discusses those less risky products.Learn more ...

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