Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...

U.S. stock markets will be closed on Monday, Feb. 16, in observance of Presidents Day. Presidents Day has been a federal holiday since 1879. It originally served to commemorate George Washington’s ...

The federal holiday observed on the third Monday in February is officially Washington's Birthday. Many states refer to the holiday as Presidents Day to also honor Abraham Lincoln or all U.S.

Algo Trading Space, an algorithmic trading education platform, has announced the release of a comprehensive beginner-focused course on automated forex trading. The Algorithmic Trading Start-Up Course ...

Jim Simons wasn’t a finance guy — he was a mathematician and Cold War codebreaker. Instead of hiring traders, he hired scientists who knew nothing about markets. His hedge fund, Medallion, used ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Officials with Zoo Knoxville said Dolly, the giant reticulated python, got a comprehensive health evaluation for the first time in five years. Dolly got a full physical assessment, ...

For some service members, the action they’re seeing isn’t on the battlefield — it’s in the markets. While some are making big money through high-risk stock trading and other short-term, risky ...

United States stock markets will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday after closing early on Christmas Eve. Stock and bond markets will reopen on Dec. 26, and it will ...

Options are showing that Bitcoin is heading into the final weeks of 2025 under intense pressure, with around $23 billion in contracts set to expire next Friday that threaten to amplify ...