Source: Getty Images Retirement is a major goal many workers keep their eye on throughout their career. However, once people actually reach retirement age, they are often in store for some financial surprises — despite decades of preparation. For today’s retirees, that is compounded by new uncertainties brought by on by historically high inflation and
In this article CTRN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In a war for talent, employers are drastically expanding their benefit offerings to attract and retain workers. Free college may be the most effective tool yet. Most recently, nationwide pizza chain Papa John’s announced it is offering fully funded degrees from partner schools, including the
Electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and other clean-energy vehicles continue to gain popularity, especially as gas prices soar. Is it time for you to make the switch? If you’re new to the EV market, you no doubt have a lot of questions — topics like EV battery range, maintenance costs, and affordability
Mortgage rates drove even higher last week after the Federal Reserve signaled it would continue its aggressive action to cool inflation. That, and rising uncertainty in the overall housing market, caused mortgage application volume to drop 3.7% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. After a
In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to reporters while she waits for the arrival of President Joe Biden at media day of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, September 14, 2022. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT – General Motors is conducting damage
Lego Star Wars toys sit on display inside a Toys “R” Us Inc. store in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Bloomberg | Getty Images Lego sales are building on pandemic-era growth, boosted by popular sets from Lego Star Wars and Lego Harry Potter. On Wednesday, the privately held Danish toymaker said
A young Beijing company’s game called “Sheep a Sheep” went viral in China in September 2022. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — A new game that’s gone viral in China hit people’s screens with surprising speed at a time when gaming giants such as NetEase have waited months for approval to launch games. That’s because
“What if I were to die tomorrow, what would you do for the rest of your life?” That’s what Malaysian Samantha Khoo asked her Singaporean husband Rene Sullivan in 2017, when he came home late from a long day of work. “It was really sudden and it took me some time before I answered her,”
Most millennials have invested heavily in stocks or cryptocurrency — and that hasn’t turned out so well. The S&P 500 Index is down more than 20% so far this year. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, is hovering around $19,000 after starting out the year above $45,000. As many younger investors bail out of those investments, bonds
Florida is bracing for Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Fiona has just devastated Puerto Rico, flooding the island leaving hundreds of thousands without access to electricity or running water. Meanwhile, flooding in Pakistan has taken over 1,600 lives. To combat the some of the worst impacts of flooding, a new industry of floating infrastructure is emerging. There
In this article CMCSA DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World. Roberto Machado Noa | Lightrocket | Getty Images As Hurricane Ian nears the west coast of Florida, the Walt Disney Company and Comcast‘s Universal Studios are preparing to close their Orlando-based theme parks for at least two days.
In this article HTZ KDP LCID VLO NCLH RCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andrew Kelly | Reuters Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Hertz — Shares of the rental car company jumped 4.42% after the company announced a partnership with BP’s electric vehicle charging unit that will put thousands of
Falling stock markets have wiped out more than $9 trillion in wealth from U.S. households, putting more pressure on family balance sheets and spending. Americans’ holdings of corporate equities and mutual fund shares fell to $33 trillion at the end of the second quarter, down from $42 trillion at the start of the year, according
Leopatrizi | E+ | Getty Images As part of President Joe Biden’s historic student loan forgiveness plan, up to 8 million people could get automatic debt relief, according to the White House. Across the board, most people with federal student debt will be eligible for some forgiveness: up to $10,000 if they didn’t receive a Pell Grant,
wera Rodsawang | Moment | Getty Images Child poverty fell dramatically in 2021, thanks to an expansion put in place last year that sent monthly payments of up to $300 per child to millions of eligible families. Yet many individuals and families eligible for the child tax credit, as well as another called the earned
Corporations in the United States pay federal corporate income taxes levied at a 21 percent rate. Forty-four states and D.C. also levy taxes on corporate income, with top marginal rates ranging from 2.5 percent in North Carolina to 11.5 percent in New Jersey. Fifteen of the states levy graduated corporate income tax rates, while the
A ‘for sale’ sign is displayed outside a single family home on September 22, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Allison Dinner | Getty Images U.S. home prices cooled in July at the fastest rate in the history of the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index, according to a report released Tuesday. Home prices in July were still
Team Captain Phil Mickelson of Hy Flyers GC is seen on the 18th tee during Day Two of the LIV Golf Invitational – Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms on September 17, 2022 in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Chris Trotman | LIV Golf | Getty Images Phil Mickelson and three other LIV golfers have dropped out of
In this article .SPX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, September 26, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters (Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) The Federal Reserve’s most aggressive pace of tightening since the 1980s is making the majority
After 13 seasons on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” Mark Cuban estimates that he’s had about as many hits as misses. Some of his on-screen deals have worked out great, he says. Others, not so much. Such is the risk of investing. But even when it comes to the ones that eventually left him scratching his own