Month: October 2019

null Getty “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” So goes the familiar adage that usually starts every company planning session you’ve ever attended. Face it. This is a planning session. The good news, however, is that it’s not about some bland organization. It’s about something you’ll find much
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The Norman Lykes House sits on the edge of the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. Heritage Auctions, HA.com Frank Lloyd Wright’s final residential masterpiece, the Norman Lykes House, sold for  $1,677,500, at a public auction October 16 in Phoenix. Nicknamed the Circular Sun House, the iconic contemporary home was auctioned off by Heritage Auctions with no minimum
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Sunrun installer putting up solar electric panels on a residential rooftop in California. Source: Sunrun Hedge fund Tiger Global Management is making a big bet on continued expansion at San-Francisco-based Sunrun, which has grown into the nation’s largest residential solar company. The fund, headed by Julian Robertson protégé Chase Coleman, has been steadily increasing its
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Stephanie McKire, 60, knows how expensive cancer can be. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2012, McKire, now retired and living in Detroit, was a quality engineer with employer-sponsored health insurance. She soon found that, even with insurance, the copays and costs of medication and therapies added up to thousands of dollars.
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The office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is one of over sixty federal IG offices, but it is one that shows up in the news more than most. Most recently it was mentioned in the New York Times as investigating the handling of the request for President Trump’s tax returns. There is
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Motif is among a slate of new mixed-use apartment buildings going up in Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler … [+] Village. Bluerock Real Estate Flagler Village, a trendy neighborhood near downtown Fort Lauderdale, is turning into a magnet for multifamily investors. Last month, through a shell company, former Silicon Valley executive Lumin Chang purchased a 292-unit apartment
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IBM shares moved 5% lower after the company issued weaker-than-expected third-quarter revenue on Wednesday. Here’s how IBM did: Earnings: Excluding certain items, $2.68 per share, vs. $2.67 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $18.03 billion, vs. $18.22 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. IBM’s revenue has now dropped for
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Denver money manager Fred Taylor of Northstar Investment Advisors. Source: Northstar Investment Advisors Managing investments in a year fraught with headline risks requires a sound strategy and the conviction to stand by it, but also the flexibility to take advantage of fast-changing market conditions. Denver money manager Fred Taylor has long focused on companies that
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If you own closed-end funds (CEFs), I have great news: equity CEFs are doing exactly what we want them to: crushing the market while handing us 7%+ dividends, (And if you’re not yet in CEFs, or want to bulk up your CEF holdings, sit tight: I’ll name a fund you can buy shortly. It has
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Once seven stories tall, the Queen Anne Winchester Mystery House has been whittled down to three … [+] stories. (Photo by: Education Images/Citizens of the Planet/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images After her husband died in 1881, Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester was one of the wealthiest people in the
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Activision will release “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” on October 25, the 16th installment in the “Call of Duty” video game series. This first-person shooter game isn’t out yet, but fans who have been playing the beta version since its September debut are already embroiled in heated arguments over it. On a “Call of Duty”-related
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