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The U.S. News & World Report released its 13th annual ranking of the best hotels for travelers this week. The rankings, published Tuesday, are based on three factors: the number of awards received from the travel industry, a hotel’s star rating, and guest reviews from the travel website Tripadvisor. More weight was given to recipients

A man enters a building with rental apartments available in New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Median rents in Manhattan hit a new record in January as a strong job market and limited supply of apartments lifted prices. The median rental price rose 15% to $4,097

Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden drew loud cheers during his State of the Union address Tuesday night when he proposed a new tax on the rich. “Pass my proposal for a billionaire minimum tax,” Biden told Congress.

The luxury hotel brand Six Senses is planning to open its first hotel in Australia — inside an old family mansion. The heritage house and its 22-hectare estate, named Burnham Beeches, are 25 miles from Melbourne in the forested Dandenong Ranges. The house was designed in 1933 for an Australian family, according to a website

These days, fewer Americans — including millionaires — feel confident about their financial standing. Although the rich are getting richer, 58% of high net worth individuals said they accept that they will have to keep working longer and 36% worry that retirement may not even be an option, according to data from Natixis Investment Managers.

When the HBO black comedy “The White Lotus” premiered in the summer of 2021, it took viewers to Hawaii’s sunny Maui. It was a perfectly timed pandemic escape full of intrigue, satire, sex and bloodshed. The second season featured a mostly new cast — save for Jennifer Coolidge and her character’s quietly sinister husband, played

Jetcityimage | Istock | Getty Images If you’re trying to max out the yearly purchase limit for Series I bonds, your tax refund offers an opportunity to buy even more. However, you should consider your goals and weigh alternatives first, experts say. An inflation-protected and nearly risk-free investment, I bonds are currently paying 6.89% annual

If you ever find yourself taking a meeting with Jeff Bezos, don’t expect the billionaire Amazon founder to speak first. Before Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021, he made a practice of letting his employees speak first. Now, his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez — the founder of Santa Monica, California-based aerial filming company Black

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bill Gates questioned whether Elon Musk’s current priorities would make him a good philanthropist, taking issue with his fellow billionaire’s ambition to send people to Mars. In an interview with the BBC, set to

dmphoto | E+ | Getty Images Tax season is underway, and there’s been increased scrutiny of the IRS as it starts deploying part of the nearly $80 billion in funding approved for the agency by Congress in August.  While Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said goals include boosting customer service and improving technology, critics have

Mark Cuban built his fortune in the tech world. That doesn’t mean he worships Silicon Valley. The billionaire star of ABC’s “Shark Tank” makes a conscious effort to keep his investments outside of the California tech hub, he told Bill Maher on a recent episode of the “Club Random” podcast. California has higher taxes and

Hong Kong’s new global promotional campaign will “kickstart” the city’s reopening to international travelers, the Hong Kong Tourism Board told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Friday.  As part of the “Hello Hong Kong” campaign, which was launched on Thursday, 500,000 air tickets will be given away over the next six months, starting in March. The

Jeffrey Coolidge | Photodisc | Getty Images Black Americans are roughly three to five times more likely to face an IRS audit than other taxpayers, according to a new study. While there isn’t evidence of explicit discrimination from the IRS or its revenue agents, the findings show the disparity stems from a faulty software algorithm

In this article RACE RACE-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna poses for a photograph as Ferrari unveils a new long term strategy, in Maranello, Italy, June 15, 2022. Flavio Lo Scalzo | Reuters Ferrari on Thursday reported full-year profit up 13% year over year and guided to an even stronger

In this article RCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Canadian Tammy Cecco wasn’t a fan of cruising. “The thought of being on a ship with thousands of other people and not being able to get off,” she said, “was something that I wanted to avoid.” That didn’t change when Cecco, a travel magazine publisher,

Two developers in California are looking to lure a buyer willing to do something no other buyer has ever done before in Los Angeles history – pay between $50 million and a $100 million for a condo.  A deal anywhere near those asking prices would shatter a record in the City of Angels, where no

In 2016, I retired early at 35. At the time, I had $900,000 saved, and within a few years was able to accumulate a $1 million net worth. I wasn’t born rich. I worked nothing but 9-to-5 jobs. I didn’t receive an inheritance or win the lottery. And I was never the smartest person in the

A salesperson showing the limited edition launched by Emporio Armani to welcome the Year of the Tiger at a duty-free store in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, January 15, 2022. Zhou Huimin | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Stocks of many luxury fashion houses reliant on Chinese consumers rallied on China’s reopening, but those

Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty Images If you worked from home in 2022, you may be wondering if you qualify for the home office deduction, which offers a tax break for part of your home expenses. Remote work was an option for 10.6% of workers in 2022, with higher percentages among tech, legal and

BEIJING — China’s consumption recovery from zero-Covid is getting off to a solid start – after a depressing fourth quarter. When Michelin-starred restaurant Rêver reopened Thursday from a Lunar New Year break, it was fully booked, said Edward Suen, chief operating officer of the Guangzhou venue. Reservations for the next three days were near capacity,