Month: December 2019

Entrepreneurs who work at H Street Greenhouse in Washington, D.C. Kerry Hannon Question: Are business co-working spaces for midlife entrepreneurs taking off? Answer: Not yet. But… stay tuned. Here’s why: In Washington, D.C., something called the H Street Greenhouse is developing a model boutique co-working space for midlife entrepreneurs that offers a tantalizing alternative to
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That’s not a typo. This article is not about first time homebuyers. It’s for those of you who are considering buying or building a hotel, for the first time. In case you never think about who owns the hotels that operate flying the flag of your favorite brand, or those independent gems, often times it
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The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, MA is pictured on March 21, 2019. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images Biogen shares rose Thursday after the biotech firm offered more data on its late-stage Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab. The data, presented at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference, offered
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A shopper carries a Tiffany & Co. retail bag on Fifth Avenue in New York, May 30, 2019. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tiffany shares fell more than 1% in premarket trading Thursday after the luxury jeweler reported earnings and revenue that fell short of analyst expectations. Here’s what Tiffany reported compared
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Charles Taylor | Getty Images There are less than four weeks left in the year, and your chances of a holiday gift at work are looking pretty good. About 2 in 3 companies anticipate giving workers a year-end bonus or perk, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The Chicago-based recruiting firm polled 250
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the state budget and legislation related to a graduated income tax in … [+] Illinois, during a bill signing Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at the Thompson Center in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky) ASSOCIATED PRESS Which matters more: Providing the necessary funding for the intellectually disabled to be able to access group
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U.S. stock index futures were slightly higher on Thursday. At around 02:15 a.m., Dow futures rose 27 points, indicating a positive open of more than 20 points. Futures on the S&P and Nasdaq were both slightly higher. Market focus is largely attuned to global trade developments, following a media report suggesting the world’s two largest economies were on the cusp of
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Source: Robinhood Free stock-trading start-up Robinhood just reached more than 10 million accounts, the company said Wednesday. The Silicon Valley start-up, mostly used by millennials to trade stocks and cryptocurrency, has grown rapidly from its one million subscribers in 2016 and six million accounts in October of 2018. Robinhood has attained its growth while disrupting
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An intensified focus on elder financial abuse by federal and state agencies is being seen as a potential cause for the tripling of reports from financial institutions of suspected cases over the past six years to the Financial Crimes Financial Network (FinCEN). FinCEN is the Treasury Department’s anti-domestic and anti-international terrorism financing unit. Monthly Suspicious
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