Month: July 2023

I recently spent an afternoon estimating how long I might live, using a few life expectancy calculators. It was this actuary’s idea of fun! It was also very enlightening and sobering, even for someone who works researches and writes about longevity topics. It reinforced the conclusion that I should be planning for a long retirement,
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In this article UPS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT United Parcel Service (UPS) driver pushes a dolly of packages towards a delivery van on a street in New York. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images UPS and the union representing more than 300,000 workers at the package carrier on Tuesday said they
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet will report second-quarter earnings after the close of regular trading on Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting:
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Leon Black, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 27, 2015. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Senate panel on Tuesday revealed a yearlong investigation into Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black‘s ties to
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The risk of inflation is important when swapping real for nominal dollars. Rather than ending the fear of outliving your 401(k), QLACs can exacerbate it. The Wall Street Journal of July 23, 2023 included an article on QLACs — Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts — with this, to me, eye-popping title, “A Retirement Tax Break That
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Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer and Margot Robbie as Barbie Julien De Rosa | AFP | Getty Images; Stuart C. Wilson | Getty Images “Barbenheimer” exploded over the weekend, generating an estimated $235.5 million in ticket sales and reinvigorating the domestic box office. “Barbie” tallied around $155 million during its first three days in theaters, the
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In this article CDNS NXPI FFIV WHR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT NXP Semiconductors Source: nxp.com Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Cadence Design Systems — Shares fell 4% after the company posted its second-quarter results. Revenue in the company’s product and maintenance category came in at $922.8 million, compared to
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Eyecrave Productions | E+ | Getty Images When it comes to living and retiring comfortably, Americans have some big numbers in mind for what they will need. Blame high inflation, which peaked at a rate of 9.1% over the preceding 12 months in June 2022, according to consumer price index data. While the pace of
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When a building owner and a tenant sign a lease, the second to last step usually consists of the tenant’s signing the lease and returning it to the owner. Then the owner countersigns and returns the countersigned lease to the tenant. Each party puts the fully signed lease in their file and the parties go
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In this article CVX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cars drive past sign with logo at the entrance to the world headquarters of petroleum company Chevron in the Bishop Ranch office park in San Ramon, California. Smith Collection | Archive Photos | Getty Images Chevron on Sunday said the company’s Chief Financial Officer Pierre
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