![]() MarketWatch's website was launched in 1997 by three former Bloomberg London editors. MarketWatch is a financial information website offering news and analysis on stocks, business and politics. MarketWatch's initial AllSides Media Bias Rating™ was Lean Right. Over the 6 months between May and Oct 2020, on average our community rated MarketWatch as Lean Right. When asked what they thought the rating for MarketWatch should be, the average of their suggested ratings for MarketWatch actually came out to be Lean Right. 2020, we found that 379 community members disagreed with our rating of Lean Right. Note: Community feedback does not determine our ratings, but is valuable feedback that may trigger a deeper review. Overall, the AllSides team found the website to not display much bias one way or the other, even if some individual opinion pieces or news pieces may have had a slight lean, as is the case for all media outlets. MarketWatch also appeared to post mostly left-wing positions on social justice-oriented opinion pieces when it came to cultural issues in Summer 2020, such as one claiming “ hiring and promoting women police officers could bring real justice reform and make communities safer”, another calling to “ defund the police”, and another calling for corporations to “ act on racial injustice.” In addition, they pointed to an article on Trump’s healthcare executive orders that prominently mentioned that analysts called the orders “symbolic,” but the article did not state exactly what the orders did, preventing readers from deciding for themselves if they were meaningful or symbolic. According to the Trump Twitter Archive, he has tweeted about the “stock market” 157 times.” The Lean Right team member also noted a slight Lean Left or anti-Trump bias in MarketWatch, including the aforementioned article on Trump in which the writer included their subjective analysis of Trump's attitudes and tweets, stating, “Trump’s presidential tweets have been rife with self-glorification ever since he took office. While a team member with a Lean Left bias said they didn’t see much sensationalism, a type of media bias, a team member with a Lean Right bias said they saw some, pointing to the site’s images and graphics, including one in which Donald Trump appeared to look guilty and one where Rudy Guiliani was shown making a bizarre expression. The team noted MarketWatch did a good job clearly labeling opinion pieces however, some analysis-style content was not labeled and appeared as news.Īt the time, the team noted a pro-Universal Basic Income (UBI) opinion piece next to an anti-UBI piece. The team found MarketWatch didn't reveal much political bias, but when it did, there were a relatively balanced number of articles that were for or against liberal or conservative ideas, politicians or policies. During the Editorial Review, conducted just two weeks before the 2020 presidential election, most members of the team noted that MarketWatch was consistent about citing their sources and using full quotes from both sides. The AllSides team, which contains people from the left, center, and right, noted that MarketWatch’s reporting did not seem to lean heavily one way or the other politically. 2020 Editorial ReviewĪllSides moved MarketWatch’s Media Bias Rating from Lean Right to Center following an Oct. But for now, the market has survived Thrifty-Payless, and that is cause for relief.MarketWatch has a Center media bias. But if they resume, funds will have to start selling bonds when other funds are not buying, a decision that could push prices down sharply until other buyers appear. That scared off some buyers, but the biggest problem was that junk mutual funds are running out of cash due to redemptions. Another, Kash N' Karry in Florida, is in trouble and has cut back on inventory purchases to conserve cash. One supermarket buyout he sponsored, of Almac's in Rhode Island, is bankrupt. Green, once a partner in Gibbons, Green, van Amerongen, has a mixed record in retailing. And it is the significance of the fact that Northwest Airlines was able to sell stock to the public but had to withdraw its planned companion offering of junk bonds. That is the significance of Procter & Gamble's embarrassment, in which the fact it used derivatives for its speculation is less significant than the fact company officials evidently saw little risk in betting that interest rates would not rise sharply either here or in Germany. Instead, that speculation has taken the form of bets that the bull markets in stocks and bonds will continue indefinitely.
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