Month: October 2019

A woman shops at a Walmart Supercenter store in Rosemead, California. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images U.S. consumer confidence dipped slightly in October as worries over business conditions and employment prospects ticked up, according to data from The Conference Board released Tuesday. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index slipped to 125.9 this
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Sergei Konkov | TASS | Getty Images As Alphabet shares fell after the Google-parent missed Wall Street’s third-quarter earnings expectations, one analyst proposed a solution: Divest YouTube, one of the tech giant’s most valuable assets. “We think GOOGL should spin off part or all of YouTube, which we estimate would be worth $300B on a stand-alone basis,”
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses potential drawbacks to taking early retirement benefits before switching to spousal, claiming retroactive benefits after 70, finding out if an ex is drawing on a worker’s record, retroactive child-in-care spousal benefits and whether a settlement is taxed by SSA.Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University
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A pedestrian passes in front of a Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. store in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Christopher Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance‘s fiscal fourth-quarter profit slid 55% as the company spent more to shutter unprofitable locations and scaled back its tobacco sales. Still, the drop in its
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Year-End is a great time for Tax-Loss Harvesting. Getty  The goal of tax-loss harvesting to lower your overall taxes. With proactive tax planning, you may be able to lower your taxable income by selling off losing investments. Similarly, you can offset some long term gains by selling investments that may have lost money over the long term. In
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Beyond Meat plant-based burger patties. Source: Beyond Meat Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Beyond Meat tanked as much as 15% after the bell despite the company’s raised revenue guidance and third-quarter earnings that topped expectations. The alternative plant-based meat company raised its revenue guidance from at least $240 million
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