Month: July 2020

If you’re in the market for a house and are considering an “interest-only” mortgage, proceed with caution. With tightened lending standards amid ongoing economic uncertainty — coupled with continually rising home prices and persistent low interest rates — some borrowers may gravitate to these so-called interest-only loans, experts say. These are loans where you only
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Natasha Alipour Faridani | DigitalVision | Getty Images The government’s release of data on businesses that have participated in the Paycheck Protection Program confirms what many in the financial advice industry already knew: Wealth management firms were among those to have taken the government loans. The data released by the Small Business Administration and Treasury
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Monica Murphy One of the small-business loan relief programs included in the historic stimulus package Congress passed in March contains a provision that many gig workers and freelancers might have overlooked. They’re eligible for a $1,000 grant that doesn’t need to be repaid. Here’s how it works: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, small-business owners who have
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People pass by the Salesforce Tower and Salesforce.com offices in New York City, March 7, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters What seemed like a few decades ago, I mean in February, people used to occasionally ask “How’s business?” Despite usually responding, “Fine, thanks,” I would often think of the inquiry as two-part. One, and probably
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The latest jobs report shocker may have missed a troubling trend. Crossmark Global Investments’ Victoria Fernandez warns it didn’t capture the fallout from surging coronavirus cases. “The data was collected through the middle of June,”  the firm’s chief market strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” late last week. “It was really the second half of June
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about how and when delayed retirement credits (DRCs) are applies, how divorced spousal benefits are calculated, how survivor benefits are calculated, filing online and whether a deceased person’s application can be withdrawn. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
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Investors who take a sustainable approach to allocating capital may be reevaluating putting their money into Hong Kong after the city implemented a national security law, an analyst said on Friday. “That’s the one area of international capital flows that could be quite significant,” said Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research, a research
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Tim Kuniskis, head of Fiat Chrysler’s passenger cars division in North America, reveals the 2021 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat SUV during an online event on July 2, 2020. Screenshot Automakers are scrambling to decide how and when to launch highly anticipated new cars and trucks now that the coronavirus pandemic has forced organizers of some of world’s biggest annual
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Trump’s Department of Labor, Securities and Exchange Commission are scheming to make 401ks “greater” … [+] than ever, i.e., greater fees, greater risks and greater conflicts. That’s great for the wolves of Wall Street, not-so-great for America’s workers and no way to Make America Great Again. Getty Trump’s Department of Labor, Securities and Exchange Commission
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