Month: November 2020

The Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington D.C. Ashley Stringer | CNBC The Federal Trade Commission has filed a civil complaint alleging “unfair or deceptive acts” by Beam Financial, a San Francisco start-up behind a savings app that purported to offer above-market interest rates on federally insured deposits. As CNBC first reported in October, dozens
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The drumbeat is starting: Stay-at-home workers should be hit with new taxes. This episode of What’s Ahead exposes the rationales and plots of greedy politicians to pick the pockets of these people, whose ranks have expanded enormously because of the pandemic.  Governments worry that less use of commercial office space will hurt revenues in a
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getty Readers, I have been remiss. I have been watching reports of major pension funds overseas divesting from fossil fuel corporations, and have been placing the topic on my to-do list, intending to share this development with readers “someday.” Last year in Norway, for instance, the $1.6 trillion Government Pension Fund Global will divest from
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Outer Borough multifamily activity is on the upswing. Ariel Property Advisors New York City’s multifamily market has begun to show positive signs of recovery in Q3, and while Manhattan’s sales activity has slowed, investors are looking for returns in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, and it’s signaling that the overall market may be pulling out
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A shopper visits a Lowe’s hardware store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 4, 2020. Mark Makela | Reuters Lowe’s shares fell Wednesday after the home improvement retailer reported third-quarter earnings and a profit outlook slightly short of estimates, weighed down by higher labor costs and investments in its e-commerce business. Its same-store sales surged more than
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According to Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the most successful leaders have certain key traits. “[H]umility, openness, fairness [and] being authentic” are most important – “not [being] the smartest person in the room or the hardest working person in the room,” Dimon, who runs the nation’s largest bank and oversees more than
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GYRO PHOTOGRAPHY | amana images | Getty Images Growing rapidly within the socially responsible investing landscape is the world of so-called impact investing, which deploys your money more directly toward solving societal problems. Largely executed through direct investing platforms, this approach addresses specific problems, such as alleviating poverty in certain communities or reducing pollution. These
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday ripped Congress and President Donald Trump‘s administration for their inability to strike a deal on additional coronavirus relief this fall, contending the lack of fiscal support has caused permanent damage to small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S. “I really hate to say this, but I think that Congress has
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BRAZIL – 2020/10/09: In this photo illustration the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) logo seen … [+] displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Publishing mostly procedural information on the IRS website in the form of FAQs has a relatively long history, and taxpayers and practitioners like
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Look under the hood of your retirement income portfolio! getty Many older workers don’t really know if their savings and Social Security are enough to support themselves in retirement. That’s because they haven’t taken the time to “look under the hood” and learn how much retirement income they might receive from Social Security and their
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