In this article HOOD An Institutional Investor Hall of Famer sees an urgent need for investors in some of the most popular trades to diversify. Rich Bernstein, who has spent decades on Wall Street, is waving the red flag on long-duration assets ranging from Big Tech to bitcoin to Reddit rebellion stocks to long-term bonds.
PamelaJoeMcFarlane | E+ | Getty Images The first half of 2021 was very different than the volatile first six months of 2020. To that point, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index returned 15% in the first half of this year — healthy growth in just about any full year. Yet, with the potential for inflation
Halfpoint | iStock | Getty Images Many Americans are looking to Labor Day with dread. That’s when some 7.5 million of them will stop receiving their unemployment benefits. The number is more than five times the 1.3 million people who lost aid in December 2013 as the country walked away from the Great Recession. Although
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United Airlines ramp services worker John Dalessandro receives a COVID-19 vaccine at United’s onsite clinic at O’Hare International Airport on March 09, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The U.S. government may not require that everyone get Covid-19 vaccines, but large employers across corporate America are stepping into the void. More than
In this article VSCO TSLA OXY DVN FANG HOOD The Tesla logo seen on a Supercharger rapid battery charging station for the electric vehicles company Tesla Motors. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Diamondback Energy — Shares of the exploration and production company slid about
A Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter-1 mission in January 2021. SpaceX SpaceX is acquiring satellite data start-up Swarm Technologies, in a rare deal by Elon Musk’s space company that expands the team, and possibly the technological capabilities, of its growing Starlink internet service. Swarm, which has 120 of its tiny SpaceBEE satellites in orbit,
Kieferpix | iStock | Getty Images When it comes to retirement savings, how much is enough in order to feel financially secure? The median answer across workers of all ages is $500,000, according to research from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. But that figure varied somewhat across generations. While the median number for Gen
FatCamera | E+ | Getty Images There’s about a week left for anyone who’s uninsured to see if they qualify for free or low-cost private health insurance through the public marketplace. A special enrollment period that will end on Aug. 15 allows you to use healthcare.gov to sign up for a plan, which could come
Kseniya Ragozina | Getty Images Small investors who might not have the funds – or the stomach to be landlords – have a new option to get in on the lucrative single-family rental market. Fundrise, which started in 2012 as a crowdfunding platform for commercial real estate, is broadening its scope to single-family rental homes.
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BARCELONA, SPAIN – AUGUST 08: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Alternate crop) Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona faces the media during a press conference at Nou Camp on August 08, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. Eric Alonso | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Lionel Messi has received a formal two-year contract offer from Paris Saint-Germain. The French club
Signage outside Lordstown Motors Corp. headquarters in Lordstown, Ohio, on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Dustin Franz | Bloomberg | Getty Images (Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) SPACs are getting hit by a rising number of class-action lawsuits as more hyped-up deals turn out to be flops. Shareholder lawsuits against post-merger special purpose
Hunter Hastings / 500px | 500px | Getty Images Although everyone wants to leave the pandemic behind, the loss of the financial relief many families received because of the crisis will be less easy to part with. Stimulus checks, more generous jobless benefits, expanded money to feed children and other aid and protections kept the
In this article NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Dawn Paul Marotta | Getty Images Norwegian Cruise Line said Sunday that a federal judge ruled to temporarily halt enforcement of a Florida law prohibiting businesses from requiring customers to show proof of vaccination. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams granted the preliminary injunction, allowing Norwegian to require
The latest jobs report may not be a game changer for the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies. According to Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher, it’s premature to assume July’s strong numbers will push the Fed meaningfully closer to tapering its monthly bond purchases. “This report was pretty strong. Not a blockbuster,” the firm’s head of
T-Mobile Weeks after applying for public service loan forgiveness, a federal program that forgives student loan debt for eligible workers, Kathleen Young got a phone call. The woman on the other end said she could help Young forgive her student debt. Young, an elementary school teacher in Palo Alto, California, assumed it was the U.S.
Critics of depreciation deductions for business expenses in the tax code occasionally argue that assets that can go up in value, like structures or sports teams, should not receive the same depreciation deductions as assets that decline in value. That criticism is driven by a deeper dispute over whether businesses should be taxed on the
The first batch of Sephora shops within Kohl’s stores debuted on Friday. Both brands are hoping to woo new customers with the partnership, which was announced nine months ago. On Friday, four Kohl’s unveiled the new Sephora-branded beauty departments. Another 73 will roll out on Aug. 20. Ultimately, the goal is to have 400 locations