Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. Chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy. Mike Segar | Reuters Interactive Brokers founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy on Monday issued a warning to investors betting against so-called meme stocks like AMC Entertainment. “It is extremely tempting to short these stocks, but unless you have huge liquid resources, please try to resist the temptation
Month: June 2021
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Amazon.com (AMZN) – CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he and his brother Mark will join an auction winner aboard the first human spaceflight by Bezos’ Blue Origin on July 20. Bezos is set to step down as Amazon CEO on July 5 in
An AMC theatre is pictured in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, June 2, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters AMC Entertainment, the meme stock that amazed Wall Street recently, rallied double digits on Monday as speculative trading activity in the struggling movie theater gained steam. Shares of AMC jumped
Delmaine Donson | E+ | Getty Images Federal refunds are on the way to more than 2.8 million people who paid taxes on unemployment benefits that no longer apply due to changes made by the American Rescue Plan Act. The law, passed by Congress in March, excludes the first $10,200 of unemployment benefits from household
A help wanted sign is displayed outside of a business before Memorial Day near the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images The weaker-than-expected April jobs report fueled speculation of U.S. labor shortages and led some state officials to declare an early end to enhanced unemployment benefits.
Tax hikes are coming—in fact, they are already in force, assuming they are passed as proposed. The “it’s already effective” rule is designed to prevent selling to get in under the wire. Whether that strategy will work depends on how good your crystal ball is. Make no mistake, these tax hikes pack a punch. The
Floating rate debt instruments for commercial real estate loans and many other forms of financing have for decades relied on an interest rate index called the London Interbank Offered Rate. If LIBOR went up or down, so would the interest rate a borrower paid. And LIBOR rates were quoted every business day for a range
Indian women wait in a queue for food in New Delhi. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The World Bank has warned that critical measures need to be taken during the pandemic recovery to get women back to work and on the path to gender equality. The pandemic has exacerbated existing gender gaps, and
There’s an overwhelming risk that’s concerning long-time bull Phil Orlando right now. Inflation, according to the Federated Hermes chief market strategist, could be stickier than the Federal Reserve anticipates. He warns it could spook Wall Street and put investors in the crosshairs of a turbulent summer. “Inflation levels are going to keep rising,” he told
In this article JBLU DAL AAL UAL LUV People ready to fly again may want to prioritize redeeming their airline miles, rather than trying to earn new ones. A glut of unused reward miles may push airlines to change their frequent flyer programs in ways that could disadvantage some customers, warns ValuePenguin, one of LendingTree’s
Finally, after many rounds of talks over many months, the London G7 summit, attended by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union as a guest, reached a historic agreement to create a common corporate tax rate of 15% for companies with international activities, which will always be
With the pandemic driving office vacancy rates in Australia to 12%, the highest in over two decades, one would expect the founder of the one of the country’s largest privately held property companies to be cautious. Instead, Lang Walker of Walker Corp. says: “I am unbelievably bullish about what we’re doing and where Australia’s going.”
The Amazon Pharmacy home screen on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ask a sports star before a game whether their team is going to win and they’re likely to say yes with confidence. And then cue the
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures are flat as the S&P 500 attempts to make a run at a record high this week amid optimism about the economy’s ongoing reopening this summer. S&P 500 futures added less than 0.1%. Dow Jones Industrial average futures gained 23 points,
Introduction to Morrissette The recent Tax Court decision in the Estate of Morrissette v. Commission, T.C. Memo 2021-60 (May 13, 2021) put the kibosh on a complex insurance tax plan and handed the IRS a victory. The case has been nicknamed in the tax planning community as “Morrissette II” since it follows a case for
Today’s column addresses questions about whether any spousal benefit amount can be paid in addition to a retirement benefit, whether foreign pensions and be received in addition to Social Security benefits and the maximum benefit a person can receive based on their work record. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and
German architect Rolf Demmler first arrived in China in 2004 after what he says was an “accident.” Facing an uninspiring career trajectory at home, Demmler was ready for a change when opportunity called. “Somebody from out of nowhere said, ‘We have job offerings in China,’” he recalled in a recent interview in Shanghai. “It labeled itself
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director at the National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases attends a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the COVID-19 response, focusing on an update from federal officials, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 18, 2021. Anna Moneymaker | Pool | Reuters On April 12, 2020, an
In this article GME BB BBBY AMC The AMC Empire 25 near Times Square is open as New York City’s cinemas reopen for the first time in a year following the coronavirus shutdown, on March 5, 2021. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images It’s been quite the week for AMC Entertainment and other meme
When the market was crashing in March 2020, financial advisor Ivory Johnson, founder of Delancey Wealth Management, decided it was time to introduce cryptocurrencies to his clients. “I did it because I saw how active the Federal Reserve was and how much they were diluting the dollar,” which would be incredibly inflationary, Johnson said. A
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