Month: June 2020

Student loan borrowers could see big changes over the next few months. pcess609 Former Vice President Joe Biden made an announcement in April that was mostly drowned out by more and more alarming developments of the coronavirus pandemic: As president, he would forgive undergraduate federal student loan debt picked up at public colleges for those
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TOPLINE Despite a minor sell-off on Friday, stocks have rebounded from the coronavirus recession strongly in recent months—too strongly, according to research from Vital Knowledge founder Adam Crisafulli, who believes investors are too optimistic about a quick economic recovery and the market is now overvalued. Investors aren’t paying “nearly enough attention to the enormous permanent
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Getty So, there’s some good news: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is processing paper tax returns. And then there’s some not-so-good news: The estimated backlog of unopened IRS mail stands at 11 million. That’s the report from Sunita Lough, IRS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, and is consistent with statements made at the beginning
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                                                                PHOTO OF Better to rent than own In San Francisco Getty Here are the latest numbers from LendingTree on renting versus owning a home. The report looks at the median monthly cost to rent versus owning a home, with and without a mortgage. Lendingtree.com TREE VP, Chief Economist Tendayi Kapfidze crunched the numbers. “The first thing
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Barry Rosenstein, founder of JANA Partners. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Company: Perspecta Inc. (PRSP) Business: Perspecta provides end-to-end information technology services and mission solutions to government customers. The company serves intelligence, defense, space, federal civilian, federal healthcare and state and local governments. It provides various solutions in mission services, digital transformation and enterprise operations. Stock Market
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Nielsen‘s David Kenny in an appearance on CNBC on Friday explained why he embedded the position of chief diversity officer into his responsibilities as chief executive officer of the marketing firm. When asked his motive for leading the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, Kenny, who is White, said the top reason was “power.” “There is no more
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Robinhood co-founders Vlad Tenev (L) and Baiju Bhatt (R) in 2015. Ben Margot/ASSOCIATED PRESS With additional reporting from Antoine Gara, John Dobosz and Jeff Kauflin Following the tragic suicide of a 20-year-old Robinhood trader after he saw a $730,000 negative balance in his account, the company’s founders released a statement pledging to tighten eligibility criteria,
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Oliver Rossi If you inherited an IRA, think before you take that tax-favored $100,000 distribution.  That’s because the relief the CARES Act offers investors who have individual retirement accounts and 401(k) retirement plans isn’t as generous to those who inherit these accounts, according to the American Institute of CPAs. The CARES Act provides several options
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