Medical professionals across the U.S. are warning us that the combination of flu season, Covid and RSV is putting everyone at risk for getting sick. Preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control are that our population will have 27 million folks who get the flu this year. That is just the early estimate at
Month: December 2022
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin It’s getting too easy to cut taxes on your investments. Politicians who like to “close loopholes” are going to notice. There’s still time. You’ve got two weeks left to take capital losses, using them to cut your 2022 tax bill. This is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. It’s
When Christmas is over, dragging the Christmas tree out to the curb is anti-climactic and, let’s face it, depressing. Following its glorious reign inside the house, fragrant, decorated with lights and ornaments, the centerpiece of festivities and the locus for gifts, putting it out for the trash is an ignominious end. Here is a community
In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford workers produce the electric F-150 Lightning pickup on Dec. 13, 2022 at the automaker’s Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REVC). Michael Wayland | CNBC DETROIT – Ford Motor has once again increased the starting price of its electric F-150 Lightning, citing higher raw material
In this article DRI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Olive Garden restaurant in Times Square in New York Richard Levine | Corbis | Getty Images Darden Restaurants on Friday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street’s expectations, as consumers continued to eat out despite pressure from inflation. The company also raised its earnings
In this article ACN META GS F X CTRA HAL XPEV MAXR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The logo of Meta Platforms is seen in Davos, Switzerland, May 22, 2022. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Meta Platforms – Shares of Meta Platforms rose 3.5% after JPMorgan
miodrag ignjatovic | E+ | Getty Images Up to 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries’ personal information may have been compromised in an online ransomware attack at a government subcontractor, officials warned this week. Letters are being sent to the beneficiaries who were impacted by the potential data breach, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Those
Social Security benefits for existing beneficiaries will increase 8.7% in 2023 from 2022 levels. People who haven’t claimed their retirement benefits yet shouldn’t let that change their strategies for claiming Social Security benefits. I regularly hear from people who see the boost in the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and say that makes them consider
Inflation optimists are betting that lower housing costs will bring down inflation. They seem to have some arithmetic on their side, but their theory of why inflation rises or falls is fallacious. Declining home prices and rents will not dent our inflation problem. One explanation of the housing-inflation connection is described by the excellent economist
As the housing market cools quickly, house flippers are finding it harder to make fast profits. In the third quarter, gross flipping profit, which is the difference between the median purchase price paid by investors and the median resale price, dropped to $62,000, according to ATTOM, a real estate data provider. That’s down 18.4% from
In this article SNAP T NFLX MS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Netflix logo is seen on a TV remote controller, in this illustration taken January 20, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Netflix— Netflix tumbled 8.6% following a report from Digiday that said the
As rising prices continue to weigh on households, more families are feeling stretched too thin. As of November, 63% of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck, according to a monthly LendingClub report — up from 60% the previous month and near the 64% historic high hit in March. Even high-income earners are under pressure, LendingClub found. Of
If you ask pre-retirees and retirees to name the most serious financial risk they face, they often cite investment risk. That’s not surprising, given that this risk received a lot of attention in 2022 due to the volatility in the stock market and the sharp increase in interest rates. But while investment risk is certainly
Taxpayers claim that IRS penalties are not warranted for many reasons. One of the biggest and most misunderstood is the defense that a tax position was based on reasonable cause and that you acted in good faith. Those seem like friendly, easy-to-understand words, but they are actually terms of art. Even if a taxpayer thinks
Over the last 50 years, income inequality in America has grown substantially. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the growth in income from 1945 to 1973 was widely shared among the various income classes in the country. However, beginning in 1973 — notably, the year the United States fell into a 16-month recession, the
In this article FUBO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images FuboTV, a live-TV bundle streaming service, said it was the target of a criminal cyberattack Wednesday, affecting customers trying to access their subscriptions during the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco. Once the attack was detected,
In this article ADBE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe Mark Neuling | CNBC Adobe shares rose 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the design software maker announced fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and guidance that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $3.60 per share, adjusted, vs. $3.50 per
People line up outside a fever clinic in Beijing on Dec. 14, 2022, just days after the country relaxed its Covid controls amid below-freezing weather in the capital city. Yuxuan Zhang | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — Mainland China’s swift rollback of many Covid-related restrictions has been unexpectedly sudden, revealing a new set of
Joos Mind | Photodisc | Getty Images Long Covid results in $9,500 of total average medical costs for workers and their employers in the six months following a diagnosis, according to a study by Nomi Health. Long Covid is a chronic illness that can carry potentially debilitating symptoms, which may last for months or years.
Family caregivers are overwhelmed, usually untrained, and often under enormous financial stress. If they are lucky, they have a community to help support them. But unless those receiving care are on Medicaid, they get little help from government. Now, Maine has begun a program aimed at helping family members care for aging or disabled relatives
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