Month: May 2020

Getty In last week’s article, we went over the wealth transfer from generation-to-generation and how proper estate planning can be crucial. That is why the generation of people with ages in the range of 70 to 90 is prime for taking advantage of proper estate planning techniques. Many of them were the first in their families
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TOPLINE The market fell sharply for most of Friday as investors braced for President Trump’s announcement regarding China, but despite new sanctions and penalties, stocks turned positive after the phase one trade deal was kept intact. Trump will make an announcement regarding U.S.-China relations on Friday. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images KEY FACTS The Dow Jones Industrial
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The housing market in Austin, Texas, is quickly rebounding from the effects of the coronavirus. Getty As mortgage applications, price appreciation and slowly growing new listings indicate that the national real estate industry is finally mending from the coronavirus, some housing markets are charting faster and stronger recoveries than others. The reasons why some cities
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States across the U.S. continue to chart their own paths forward, trying to thread the needle between public health concerns and efforts to restart the economy amid mass unemployment. Another 2.1 million people filed jobless claims over the past week while continuing claims, or those who have been collecting for at least two weeks, reached 21.05 million,
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On Wednesday, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced in a letter to the Stanford community that the school was facing financial challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic and that some reduction in the school’s workforce would likely be “unavoidable.”  “We don’t yet know the scale of job reductions. We hope they will be limited, but
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Martin Seay, president of the Financial Planning Association and chair of the Personal Financial Planning Program at Kansas State University. Financial Planning Association The coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses of all kinds to rethink how they work and interact with customers. Financial planning is no different.  Martin Seay, president of the Financial Planning Association, perhaps
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Kevin O’Leary told CNBC on Friday the coronavirus crisis has shown that remote working is good for employees and a business’s bottom line.  “Productivity is significantly higher when you give people what they want,” the “Shark Tank” investor said on “Squawk Box.” ”Maybe they’re taking care of an aged parent, maybe they’re raising kids, maybe they don’t want to
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China’s desire to display its sovereign might could be part of why it has approved a draft national security law for Hong Kong, one analyst told CNBC. “There’s probably sort of a multi-layered cake of Chinese motivations,” Christopher Johnson, Freeman Chair in China Studies at think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Thursday before China’s
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A Chinese and U.S. flag at a booth during the first China International Import Expo in Shanghai, November 6, 2018. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Stock futures slipped on Thursday night as traders braced for an upcoming news conference on U.S.-China relations from President Donald Trump. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures dipped 52 points,
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By David Jarmul, Next Avenue Contributor Kate Szerszen watches Alan Teasley’s online OLLI class about Stephen Sondheim Dennis Szerszen “Folks, this is a big experiment,” Alan Teasley laughed, as he began his online adult education class about Stephen Sondheim with a song from West Side Story, using the Zoom videoconferencing technology. During the next hour,
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