Sears discounts and the cheapest rent in the country

Happy Friday, MarketWatchers! Slide into the weekend with these top stories in personal finance.

Personal Finance

My fiancé’s father treats him like an ATM—how do we protect our financial future?

This woman is concerned that her father-in-law will disrupt their life.

Don’t want to buy a home? This city has the cheapest rent in the country

Rents are increasing at the slowest pace in years across most of the U.S.

This U.S. state will pay you $10,000 to move there

Why Americans are being paid to move and work remotely.

People haven’t been this optimistic about house prices since just before the crash

A new Gallup poll says two-thirds of people believe it’s a good time to buy a home.

Job prospects for the Class of 2018 are vastly different from 10 years ago

Some young adults who graduated during the Great Recession are still struggling.

How to snag the best discounts before Sears closes 72 stores

Consumers should wait before shopping for good bargains.

When children stop eating these foods, they’re more likely to become obese

The American diet is going global, and that’s bad news for children’s health.

This decadent Zinfandel is aged in old bourbon barrels

Consider pairing this fruit-forward wine with barbecue.

As the unemployment rate falls, these cities added the most jobs

A boom in certain industries means that some parts of the country are seeing remarkable job growth.

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Trump Today: President says summit with Kim back on after meeting North Korean envoy

President Donald Trump said Friday a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was back on for next month, after meeting a top Kim aide at the White House.

Trump-inspired talk of trade war puts sleepy trade deficit report back in crosshairs

For years the U.S. trade deficit was largely ignored by the broader public, but President Trump is putting the report back in the spotlight with his threats of tariffs on foreign goods. He’s bound to be disappointed by what it shows.

So much winning: all the latest signs of the bubble that will crush this economic expansion

It’s in GDP, the housing market and, yes, President Trump, writes Tim Mullaney.

The ‘real’ unemployment rate reached a 17-year low. Here’s why that’s a big deal.

The official U.S. jobless rate slid to an 18-year low of 3.8% in May, but even better the so-called real unemployment rate has fallen more rapidly. That’s good news for millions of Americans who were on the outside of the labor market looking in.