Month: July 2019

Retiring as a millionaire may seem like a fantasy rather than a practical financial goal, yet it’s possible with savvy monthly saving. Reaching that milestone, however, takes determination, especially if you don’t start until later in life. Luckily, personal finance site NerdWallet crunched the numbers, broken down by age group, to demonstrate how much you’ll
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Representatives from Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft joined up in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, alongside some of the largest health insurers and hospitals, to announce plans to provide consumers with easier access to their medical information. The group agreed to begin testing a set of technical specifications for sharing for a type of health data
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Mastercard on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit, as a robust economy encouraged customers to spend more, boosting fee income for the world’s second-largest payment processor. The company’s gross dollar volume, the dollar value of transactions processed, rose 8.3% to $1.60 trillion in the second quarter. Overall consumer spending, which accounts for more
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Ariel Skelley | DigitalVision | Getty Images The CFP Board of Standards, the group overseeing the Certified Financial Planner credential, will overhaul its practices, making it easier for investors to spot financial advisors with a questionable past. In a Tuesday afternoon phone call, the group announced it would establish an independent task force to review
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Will interest rates really get the chop everyone thinks they will as 2019 rolls into the home stretch? The smart money certainly thinks it knows. Beyond tomorrow’s rate cut (which the pros see as all but in the can), futures traders predict two more chops—in September and December. But here’s something no one will tell
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Minted x Samsung Lyrical by Sarah McInroe Minted In recent years, television technology has rapidly improved. Screens are clearer and larger. Colors are truer and brighter. Units are thinner and designed to be to less obtrusive. But no matter which make and model you choose, whether it is sitting on top of an entertainment center
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