Ariel Skelley Personal finance website WalletHub is out with another list of the best states in which to spend your retirement. Factoring in affordability, quality of life and health care, Florida came in first. Yet a recent ranking by Business Insider dubbed Mississippi the winner. Nebraska took the title in another list last year compiled
Getty I hope last week’s Iran head-fake didn’t have you thinking about buying so-called “safe” dividends like Treasuries. Because these tired income standbys aren’t safe at all! With your nest egg yielding a pathetic 1.9%, you’re guaranteed losses, with inflation running at 2.1%. So today we’re going to make a simple contrarian move that will:
Social Network Backgrounds Getty The Gig economy has been expanding rapidly over the past decade and the number of users involved with platforms like Uber, Lyft & Airbnb has grown exponentially. The IRS recently launched the Gig Economy Tax Center on www.irs.gov. This is a brand new section of the IRS website dedicated to help
Photo: Getty There’s a reason many high-net-worth individuals still consider real estate the best investment you can make today: it’s a solid foundation for building wealth. If you invest wisely in one property that appreciates over time, you can use the residual income generated to acquire more properties and continue to expand your assets. Real
From the veranda of the Ayana Komodo Resort, a long wooden pier snakes into the rugged sea off Waecicu Beach. At sunset, the sky explodes with fiery showers of color. It’s a perfect picture for the Instagram Age, with dozens of delicious, chocolate-chip shaped islands sprinkled across the horizon. The five-star resort opened in September
Laurence “Larry” Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock. Chris Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, as more money rolled into its cash management business and exchange-traded funds amid concerns of slowing global growth. The company attracted $128.84 billion in
A peacock in Ranthambore, India. Travelographer 1 | 500px Prime | Getty Images In what’s become a right of passage in the world of media and entertainment, Comcast‘s NBCUniversal will unveil Peacock, its new video streaming service, during the company’s investor day Thursday in New York. Peacock is the last of the known major media
“Jeopardy” contestant Ken Jennings visits the Build Series to discuss the television event “JEOPARDY! The Greatest of All Time” at Build Studio on January 06, 2020 in New York City. Gary Gershoff | Getty Images It’s official, Ken Jennings is the greatest “Jeopardy!” contestant of all time. He won the third match in the “Greatest
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that “tariffs worked” as a means to prod China to agree to a phase one trade deal with the United States. “I keep wondering when people are going to recognize that it is historic that tariffs did succeed,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” shortly before U.S. and Chinese
People line up outside the Social Security Administration office in San Francisco. Getty Images If you collect Social Security benefits, you’re probably already eagerly waiting to see what your cost-of-living adjustment will be next year. New, early estimates from The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior group, point to a possible 1.5% COLA increase for
By Kelly K. James, Next Avenue Contributor Two friends having conversation at work, woman in her 50s wearing glasses smiling and facing female … [+] manager, agreement, support, collaboration Getty When Kathy Pauss retired from her job as a school secretary a few months before turning 65, the Downers Grove, Ill. resident thought it was
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Getty The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidance for some taxpayers who took out federal or private student loans to finance attendance at a nonprofit or for-profit school. The guidance offers relief for students whose loans have been discharged by the Department of Education and
Quarters bedroom. Lehrter Strasse Following the migration of hipsters and millennials, the European co-living company Quarters is putting down roots in Brooklyn. Founded in Germany in 2012 by a pair of serial entrepreneurs, who famously got their start in business by selling sausages online, the brand, geared toward traveling professionals, will soon have 3,000 beds
Moderna Therapeutics is working with Amazon‘s cloud service to deliver a new class of medicines that apply messenger RNA, which is the “software of life,” CEO Stephane Bancel said Wednesday. The biotech company is undergoing clinical trials with mRNA, a single-stranded molecule used to make protein in cells, to develop personalized cancer vaccines. In an
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan speaking on Squawk Box at the WEF in Davos Switzerland on Jan. 20th, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Bank of America posted profit that exceeded analysts’ expectations on a rebound in trading revenue and as the company repurchased shares. The bank posted fourth-quarter profit of $74 cents a share, an
People pass a sign for JPMorgan Chase at it’s headquarters in Manhattan, New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images J.P. Morgan Chase admitted to failures brought to light in a New York Times article last month and said it had taken a series of steps to learn from the episode. In letters to congressmen
Peter Griffith You might have the know-how to strengthen your finances, yet odds are you’re still making bad decisions with your money. Three out of 4 people consider themselves to be financially savvy, although more than half have admitted to making poor money choices in the past year, according to a survey from KeyBank. The
The U.S.-Iran conflict appears to be in the rear-view mirror as stocks soar to record highs and the phase one signing of the U.S.-China trade deal takes center stage, but some are warning that tensions in the Middle East continue to simmer, and may soon reach a boiling point. “A significant change to our outlook
Guido Mieth Americans are spending more with digital payments and credit cards than ever before, as convenience and technology have relegated cash and checks more to the periphery. Online shopping has proliferated on retail websites such as Amazon, mobile payment apps like Venmo have become more popular, and banks have made it as easy to
CHICAGO, IL – OCTOBER 01: Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker speaks during a round table … [+] discussion with high school students at a creative workspace for women on October 1, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Pritzker was joined by his Illinois gubernatorial Lieutenant Governor candidate Juliana Stratton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as