Most people are tourists at one time or another, but you probably don’t want to retire to a beautiful place filled with traffic as visitors pour in every day. Catey Hill interviews a couple who have moved to a beautiful part of Italy that tourists haven’t discovered. Family money problems — things turn nasty Quentin Fottrell — MarketWatch’s Moneyist — helps readers every week with difficult financial problems, often centered on differences of opinion among family members. This time, there’s a...

The human mind often works in fascinating ways that can help or hurt investors. If someone has to deliberately take action in order to participate in something, they are far less likely to do so than if they were signed up automatically with the option of not participating. This opt-in/opt-out dynamic can reduce your potential for long-term growth in an employer-sponsored retirement plan. When the default option puts you in the company 401(k), it means you’re more likely to save for...

Tesla delivered excellent fourth-quarter results. Then again, its shares have doubled over the past year and more than tripled from their 52-week low on June 3. This gives rise to fear that the stock has become dangerous. But Jeff Reeves argues that Tesla TSLA, -0.99% may join the S&P 500 SPX, -1.15% by the end of the year by meeting S&P Dow Jones Indices’ financial criteria. This will be a very important event, because the company, with its tremendous market value, will then be a major...

The long bull market for U.S. stocks has been led by companies that have grown rapidly with product and service transformations. But with the ratio of stock prices to expected earnings at much higher levels than a year ago, there are concerns about three of the highfliers: Tesla TSLA, -1.27%, Apple AAPL, +0.89% and Netflix NFLX, +0.78%. Netflix changes its numbers Netflix has changed the way it counts subscribers, which is critically important to investors who have been basing decisions on...

Tesla has its doubters, but the stock has come roaring back, making believers out of many. Tesla TSLA, -1.51%, under the leadership of Elon Musk, has often disappointed investors by missing deadlines or failing to hit production targets. But in 2019, the company delivered about 367,500 cars, up 50% from a year earlier, and its stock ended the year with a 26% gain, despite a massive drop earlier in the year. The shares were up another 23% for 2020 through Jan. 16. Here’s a two-year chart for...