There’s a tug of war between our hearts and minds in making investment decisions. When emotions win—as they often do—we become our own worst enemies and underperform the broader market. According to DALBAR research, one of the single biggest variables in investment performance is investor behavior. It’s primarily responsible for the continual underperformance of the
Month: December 2021
In ordinary times real estate investors don’t worry much about where to invest. Every local market has opportunities, every one has rental properties you can buy, every one has homes you can develop to produce income. Growth markets provide the chance to get higher returns but even stagnant markets need housing that can provide better
In this article CROX Some investors are not seeing the appeal of Crocs‘ multibillion dollar deal to buy the casual shoemaker Hey Dude. But Crocs Chief Executive Andrew Rees said the retailer sees the chance to expand the Hey Dude brand to new geographies — along the coasts of the United States and throughout the
You have to like this news if you live in one of six states that were impacted by Hurricane Ida. Back in September, the IRS extended the Oct. 15 tax filing deadline for Ida victims until January 3, 2022. But now, victims of Hurricane Ida in six states have until Feb. 15, 2022 to file
In this article NKLA WYNN CROX TSLA Nikola Motor Company Two truck Source: Nikola Motor Company Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Nikola — The electric truck maker saw its stock surging more than 16% a day after the company announced on Twitter that its first customer delivery is done and signaled there’s more to
In 2008, Deacon Hayes and his wife, Kim, “were newly married” and “living paycheck to paycheck” in Phoenix, Arizona, he says. She was a teacher and he was selling wood floors, and, “between credit card debt, student loans, and car loans, we had about $52,000 in consumer debt,” he says. More from Grow:How I paid
In this article AMC GME DWAC HWIN Shoppers wait for a GameStop store to open on at the Tysons Corner Center, in Tysons, Virginia, November 27, 2020. Hannah McKay | Reuters An army of Reddit traders, triple-digit stock pops and a $100 million deli: In a wild year of trading, the unexpected became the norm
New Hampshire parents and others gather outside of Sen. Maggie Hassan’s Manchester office on Sept, 14, 2021.. Scott Eisen | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Democrats on Capitol Hill will face a big task when they regroup in the new year — finding common ground on the Build Back Better legislation. One key question
By Leslie Hunter-Gadsden, Next Avenue The pandemic has motivated many people to reconsider their career paths. For Patricia Wynn, a single, 52-year-old in Hillsborough, N.C., it meant being open to the possibility of becoming an entrepreneur. “I spent twenty-six years at McDonald’s MCD in Atlanta, rising up the ranks to become general manager. Then in 2015,
Nestled at the base of the Sandia Mountains, this magnificent house was built in 2007 by Michael Sivage of Sivage Homes, a well-known builder in the state. On a 2.76-acre lot within the private gates of the Tanoan Country Club and golf course, the house measures 13,000 square feet, with five bedrooms and six full and two
Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu announced on Dec. 23, 2021, the first car with HarmonyOS will begin deliveries in February 2022. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Less than a week after Chinese electric car start-up Nio announced its latest competitor to Tesla, Huawei released details on a vehicle with specs it claims
Welcome to the Tax Policy Center’s annual Lump of Coal Award for the year’s biggest tax policy blunders, Build Back Better edition. Even by the usual low standards, 2021 saw more than its share of terrible ideas, and worse execution. Here are the Top Ten: 10. A little help on remote work, Supreme Court? The pandemic
In this article 9618-HK 700-HK JD.com plummeted Thursday after Tencent announced it will be giving most of its shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant away to its shareholders. Tencent said it will declare a one-time dividend in which it will distribute more than 457 million Class A ordinary shares of JD.com to shareholders, with a
DjelicS | E+ | Getty Images If you still have money in your flexible spending account, be aware that you may have only another week or so to spend it. Congressional action loosened FSA rules for 2020 and 2021 as a way to give workers more time to spend unused funds, yet many companies did
As a financial adviser with an 86 year old mother, who I helped deal with her older sister’s affairs in 2015, I’m acutely aware of the women’s retirement crisis. I also always remember listening to Sallie Krawcheck on Morning Joe, in April of that year. Sally highlighted the fact that the face of nursing homes was
The beach towns that decorate the coast of Los Angeles County, while sharing many similarities such as sunny weather, highly desirable real estate and a dreamy, laid-back glamour, are not all made the same—each has idiosyncrasies that define both reputation and reality. There’s Venice with its bohemian charms, Malibu with its dramatic beauty or Manhattan
Students queue up for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing at Xi’an Jiaotong University on December 17, 2021 in Xi an, Shaanxi Province of China. Hua Shang Daily | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — A major city in central China that’s seen a flare-up of Covid-19 cases locked down on Thursday, with local authorities
One of those “deja vu all over again” periods is going on with a sudden outbreak of inflation. According to the historical inflation rates table at US Inflation Calculator, we were at 4.2% in April 2021, over 5% May to September, 6.2% in October and 6.8% in November. The last time we had an April to
Stock futures were slightly higher Wednesday evening following the second trading day in which equities climbed higher, as investors looked past earlier jitters about the spread of the omicron Covid variant. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.06%. S&P 500 futures rose 0.1% and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.06%. In regular
Supporters demonstrate in favor of Build Back Better on the Senate Steps of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 15, 2021. Leigh Vogel | Getty Images As the Build Back Better bill and the new government aid it promised stalls on Capitol Hill, millions of Americans who may have been expecting more help amid the pandemic
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