Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market could grow by more than $260 billion by 2030 if major online shopping marketplaces do more to encourage and enable women entrepreneurs, a new report from the International Finance Corporation found. The “anonymity” of e-commerce has reduced many of the barriers to entry traditionally faced by women and afforded them the
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Stat scam; shopping center switcheroo; what a pain; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Houston: Jonathan Adam Van Pelt, former owner of a local staffing company, has admitted he willfully failed to account for and pay federal employment taxes. Van Pelt withheld federal income taxes and Social Security and Medicare taxes from the wages
In this article BBY Ruben Fragoso checks out appliances for sale at the Best Buy store in April 2010 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle, Getty Images As Americans move into new houses, remodel homes and watch real estate values rise, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said they are buying appliances and big-screen TVs and hiring
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In this article VIAC Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe star in “A Quiet Place Part II.” Paramount Pictures John Krasinski has dazzled critics again. The writer-director’s follow-up feature to 2018’s “A Quiet Place” currently holds a 91% “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 135 reviews. “A Quiet Place Part II” is the much
In this article CRM Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Salesforce shares rose 2% in extended trading on Thursday after the cloud software maker reported fiscal first-quarter earnings that surpassed analysts’ expectations. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.21 per share, adjusted, vs. 88 cents per share as expected by analysts, according
In this article HPQ DELL ULTA CRM Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Salesforce — Salesforce shares jumped 5% in extended trading after the cloud-based software company posted
People wait to visit a house for sale in Garden City, Nassau County, New York, on Sept. 6, 2020. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Mortgage interest rates are near historic lows. Yet if you want to take advantage of those rates, check your credit score first. That three-digit number determines whether you can get
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, in Dearborn, Michigan on May 18, 2021. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images The wealthy may have a whole other reason to dread President Joe Biden’s proposal to overhaul taxes on inheritances: They may have to dig through decades’ worth of documents
Arizona legislators are considering tax changes as part of the fiscal year 2022 budget process that is underway. Companion omnibus taxation bills HB 2900 and SB 1828 would reduce individual income tax rates for all taxpayers, consolidate the state’s graduated-rate income tax brackets into what would effectively be a two-rate structure by 2023, and reduce
Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan cited potential excesses in the housing market and other inflation signs as an indication that the central bank should start slowly pulling back on its asset purchase program. With the Fed still buying at least $120 billion in bonds each month, a total that includes $40 billion in mortgage-backed
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In this article FORD F Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley walks to speak at a news conference at the Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, September 17, 2020. Rebecca Cook | Reuters Ford Motor‘s stock jumped 8.5% Wednesday during CEO Jim Farley’s first investor day as shareholders welcomed the automaker’s new “Ford+” plan aimed at
Customers wait outside of a Best Buy store in downtown Toronto, Ontario on November 23, 2020 to pick up their online orders. Geoff Robbins | AFP | Getty Images Best Buy said Thursday that sales grew 36% in the fiscal first quarter, as shoppers’ stimulus-fueled spending spree included consumer electronics. Shares of the company nearly
If you can cope with sharp drops in the cryptocurrency space, market forecaster Jim Bianco believes it will ultimately pay off in spades. “Some of these coins like ethereum are going to be a lot higher way down the road,” the Bianco Research president told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. “But you’re going to have
In this article RR.-GB Detail of the new Rolls-Royce Boat Tail on May 27, 2021, unveiled by Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, England. Jeff Spicer | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Rolls-Royce Motor Cars on Thursday unveiled the Boat Tail, a luxury vehicle model it has
In this article PXD SPCX Noah Kerner, CEO of Acorns. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Savings and investing app Acorns plans to go public by merging with a blank-check company. The fintech start-up announced a deal Thursday to combine with Pioneer Merger Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The merger values Acorns
blackCAT | E+ | Getty Images If your income falls below $75,000 for 2021, there’s a chance you’ll end up paying no income taxes on it. On average, taxpayers in that category will have no tax liability after accounting for deductions and credits when they file their 2021 tax returns next spring, according to recent
Thirteen states tax Social Security benefits, a matter of significant interest to retirees. Each of these states has its own approach to determining what share of benefits is subject to tax, though these provisions can be grouped together into a few broad categories. Today’s map illustrates these approaches. Thirty-seven states and D.C. either have no