Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference following a closed two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, September 18, 2019. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters The Federal Reserve is likely to indicate it’s not in a hurry to do anything to change its neutral stand on interest rates, following its meeting Wednesday. But
Month: December 2019
Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital David A. Grogan | CNBC Investors should take some risk off the table in 2020 given some of the challenges the market faces, billionaire investor Howard Marks said on Tuesday. “The economic expansion and the bull market are old,” Marks told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost. “Valuations are above average. There’s a
New York, New York E+ | Getty Images There are three weeks left in the year, and House Democrats are taking a last shot at ending the $10,000 limit on state and local tax deductions. Rep. Thomas Suozzi, D-N.Y, along with Reps. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., and Mike Thompson, D-Calif., proposed the “Restoring Tax Fairness for
Dad Giving His Son Advice About Retirement Getty What Can Be Better Than An Inheritance? A Personal Matching Program Getting an inheritance can be a good thing – or a bad thing. While Millennials may wish their inheritance will someday pay for their retirement, that may or may not happen. According to a 2018 Charles Schwab Study,
Getty When it comes to tax and accounting services in the United States, many corporate clients are asking the question: Am I with the right firm? After all, last year was the first tax season under the Trump Administration tax overhaul – the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That brought pitfalls and opportunities. And now
Getty Feeling priced out of New York City? If you’re looking to buy a home for around $250,000, you may want to trade in your wing tips for cowboy boots. You can get six times more space in Houston for that price than in the Big Apple, according to a new report from PropertyShark. The
A woman pushes her shopping cart down the bottled water aisle at a supermarket in Los Angeles, California on March 15, 2018. Frederick J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images As bottled water’s sales growth flattens, the world’s largest bottled-water maker is betting on new products to try to make water exciting again. New products
The Federal Reserve could be launching another round of money-printing in the next few weeks as problems in the overnight lending markets reemerge and force the central bank into more aggressive action, according to a Credit Suisse analysis. A fourth version of quantitative easing — often referred to as “money-printing” for the way the Fed
At the Dead Sea, travelers slather thick, mineral-rich mud onto their bodies and bake under the sun. In India, hot stones are strategically placed along the spine. From Iceland to New Zealand, people luxuriate in steaming natural hot springs. And in Morocco? Travelers are buried alive in sweltering hot sand in the name of health
Exxon did not mislead shareholders over the true cost of climate change, New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager ruled on Tuesday. The $1.6 billion suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleged that Exxon deceived investors about the true cost of climate change. The trial, which began in October and was the
visualspace | E+ | Getty Images You probably have a financial junk drawer — a hodgepodge of incomplete financial projects, goals and even a few secrets. Lots of people have one, says Amanda Priebe, a certified financial planner and wealth strategist at PNC Wealth Management. But unlike that kitchen drawer filled with old packets of
Geri Lavrov | Getty Images Baby boomer business owners, retiring in record numbers, are fueling a dramatic paradigm shift on Main Street, and many are at a crossroads, trying to figure out if they should sell their business or pass it along to a successor. Boomers own 2.34 million small businesses in the United States,
Getty Precept 1 of the Code of Professional Conduct for credentialed actuaries in the United States says this: “An Actuary shall act honestly, with integrity and competence, and in a manner to fulfill the profession’s responsibility to the public and to uphold the reputation of the actuarial profession.” What’s that mean? In the world of
Year-End Tax Planning is a must for Gay Couples with big incomes. Getty While year-end tax planning can be valuable for everyone, the tax savings can be even larger for gay married couples. According to the US Treasury Department gay married men make more, on average, than our straight married counterparts. Don’t despair ladies. Lesbian married
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Mortgage lending limits will increase yet again for 2020 Getty News from the Federal Housing Financing Authority provides the latest figures for the threshold for non-jumbo mortgages (or a ‘conforming loans’) and the numbers show a significant increase yet again. For 2020, the limit will raise
James Quincey, the CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, December 9, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said that the beverage giant waited too long to make a sparkling water brand. “We should’ve done AHA, yeah, sooner,” Quincey
Soybeans are harvested from a field on Hodgen Farm in Roachdale, Indiana, November 8, 2019. Bryan Woolston | Reuters China is buying more U.S. soybeans, as both countries try to reach an initial agreement on trade. Between September and November this year, Chinese imports of American soybeans increased 13 times from the same period last
Shares of Agilent Technologies gained more than 3% in after-hours trading on Monday after hedge fund investor Bill Ackman revealed he has taken a stake in the lab testing equipment maker. A regulatory filing showed Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, owns more than 2.9 million Agilent shares, bringing his stake to around $246 million.
Lauren Schaefer, 31, was managing events for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism when she quit to start her own wedding coordination company. Source: Lauren Schaefer When Lauren Schaefer started planning weddings, she never imagined it would become a full-time job. The 31-year-old worked in the events management industry for 10 years before she
Planning is very important so that you don’t run out of funds stock.adobe.com As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, the number one question I am asked repeatedly is ‘will I have enough money to last during retirement?’ According to a Consumer Reports’ 2017 nationally representative Financial Security Survey, 46% of baby boomers (individuals born between
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