Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column explore when you can, and cannot, file a restricted application for spousal benefits only, when retirement benefits can be claimed after restricting an application, lasting effects of filing early, public
Month: August 2019
Kevin McCloud, British TV presenter and designer, launched HAB Housing in 2007. (Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images) Getty Images Hundreds of investors in TV celebrity Kevin McCloud’s eco housing business have been told they can lose up to 97% of their money. Between 2013 and 2017 McCloud, the presenter of Channel 4’s Grand Designs for over 20
Since the second series of Treasury regulations regarding Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs) were created this spring, tax attorneys across multiple disciplines have been focused on capturing as much tax alpha as possible. And the new regulations have unveiled new opportunities. For example, Treasury is now allowing Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) investors to sell their QOF
Enphase Energy: You should “sell half of Enphase because it’s up way too much given its solar roots and then [you] can let the rest run.” Fortinet: “I like Fortinet. I think there’s better … I think that Cyberark‘s better. I think Symantec‘s better. So there’s a bunch that I think is better. “ Equity
Back-to-school shopping at a Target store in West Hollywood, California. Joe Scarnici | Getty Images Target‘s second-quarter profit jumped 17%, beating Wall Street estimates and propelling the company to raise its outlook for the rest of the year, the company said Wednesday. CEO Brian Cornell said the company had “outstanding performance” during the first half
Robert Kaplan at Jackson Hole, Wyoming David A. Grogan | CNBC Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan would like to avoid additional stimulus but is keeping an “open mind.” “I’d like to avoid having to take further action but I think I’m going to have an open mind about taking action over the next number of
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on Aug. 5, 2019. U.S. stocks plunged on Monday as investors worry that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened new tariffs on Chinese imports will worsen trade prospects. The Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 767.27 points, or 2.90 percent, to 25,717.74.
Thursday marks “Equal Pay Day” for black women. It’s the approximate day when their 2018 wages, plus the amount they’ve earned so far this year, catches up to what white men earned just last year alone. While women overall in the U.S. earn about 80 cents for each dollar paid to men, the disparity in
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”~Audrey Hepburn They are your rock, your anchor, your best friend. And while you might be able to live without your spouse or significant other, you don’t ever want to. And as it turns out, there’s not only a romantic, but a practical reason for that—one that
Chicago’s Spoke Apartments is among a growing number of apartment buildings across the country positioned along established bicycle routes, helping increase their appeal to renters who bike to and from work, FitzGerald Associates Architects According to the U.S. Census Bureau, bicycling is the nation’s fastest-growing form of transportation. As such, cycling is exerting an ever-greater
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Analysts believe 2019’s low unemployment rate means any economic stimulus from a payroll tax cut would be nominal. ASSOCIATED PRESS Topline: President Trump said Tuesday he is considering a payroll tax cut that would put money back into everyday Americans’ pockets, but it could impact funding
VMware reported a top-and-bottom line beat in its quarterly report Thursday, but it’s stock tanked as much as 7% in after-market trading. Investors frowned on the cloud software company’s move to acquire both Carbon Black and Pivotal Software at a grand enterprise value of $4.8 billion, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer took a contrarian. “I like the cloud security space
Pedestrians walk past a Nordstrom Inc. store. Ben Nelms | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nordstrom‘s stock soared by more than 17% after the company released a mixed earnings report that showed weakening sales, but handily beat Wall Street profit estimates. Here’s how the company did, compared with what Wall Street was expecting, according to Refinitiv
Kuni Takahashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Gap slid as much as 7% before settling around 1% lower in extended trading after the retailer posted second-quarter sales that missed estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of 63 cents on revenue of $4.01
Google had its IPO 15 years ago, and it was a big deal for a couple of reasons. First of all, Google’s IPO was a glimmer of hope after the dotcom bust. And Google was trying to reinvent the IPO by making it more transparent, using a process called a Dutch Auction. Today, the IPO
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Arturo Estrella, the economist who first discovered the predictive power of the yield curve, has a message for recession naysayers: It could hit sooner than you think. “It’s been 50 years and 7 recessions with a perfect record,” Estrella told
With fears about a possible recession on the horizon, people are coming up with different ways to get their hands on some cash. Some may even be thinking about taking out a home equity line of credit as an insurance policy in case the economy goes south. Those concerns were renewed on Thursday when a
As broke investors worry more and more about a stock market crash, billionaires are quietly loading up on their favorite dividend paying stocks. Investing for growth and income, these “country clubbers” know how to 4X their yields without taking on any additional risk. Who would you rather invest with? Obviously, the rich guy or gal
This ranch-style home in Ojai, California mixes frontier charm with contemporary design. Douglas Elliman Aside from the boutique hotels and hip art galleries, Ojai, California is virtually Los Angeles’ frontier—chock-full of ranches, horse trails, and arresting heroes ready to claim their stake in town. For its 7,500-plus residents, life here represents a change of pace, a
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker In an unfortunate decision, three of the four voting members of the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) voted to significantly gut the Volcker Rule, a risk reduction cornerstone of the Obama era financial reform law, The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank). The
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