NewsWatch: ‘Trouble’s coming,’ warns short-selling legend who just cashed in a roughly $100 million winning bet

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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE

Jim Chanos, fresh off a huge win, is casting gloom over the current state of the stock market. See full story.

Goldman Sachs has a new blowout forecast for gold

Our call of the day is a bullish one from Goldman Sachs, which is upping the ante for those betting on stronger gold prices sticking around. See full story.

Fed won’t be happy with how the economy is performing, but is not perturbed enough to take aggressive action

The Federal Reserve won’t like what it sees in the economic outlook but will likely hold off any further major policy steps at its meeting this week. See full story.

Congress has a million-plus documents from Big Tech antitrust investigation, and are ready to grill big-name CEOs

For more than a year, the federal government has circled Big Tech and its business practices. On Wednesday, members of the House of Representatives will roll out evidence their staffs have found and put pressure directly on some of the most prominent executives in the world. See full story.

Trump administration asks FCC to rein in social media

The Trump administration moved forward with plans to regulate content on social-media platforms Monday, formally asking federal regulators to start overseeing how these platforms treat user-generated content. See full story.

MARKETWATCH PERSONAL FINANCE

Well-resourced parents are hiring tutors, nannies and ‘private educators’ to supplement or replace remote learning, the latest example of how the pandemic is exposing longstanding inequities in U.S. education. See full story.

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