Month: April 2019

Yardbird’s Waverly Collection. Yardbird When purchasing outdoor furniture, consumers usually have to choose between sustainability and affordability, but two-year-old startup Yardbird has found a way to offer both. Launched in 2016, the brand’s 2017 pop-up store sold $1 million in inventory within its first four weeks of opening. With over $4 million in sales, they’ve exceeded
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The “Fast Money” traders shared their first moves for the market open. Pete Najarian was a buyer of IBM. Tim Seymour was a buyer of United Airlines. Steve Grasso was a buyer of Netflix. Guy Adami was a buyer of UnitedHealth. Trader disclosure: Pete is long calls AAL, AMD, ASHR, BABA, BAC, BP, BSX, CFX,
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell isn’t the only market player who may be guilty of a little capitulation. Millionaire investors began 2019 with major reservations about the stock market, but as the Federal Reserve‘s abrupt December about-face on interest rates takes hold as the new normal in monetary policy, the wealthy have decided that the
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Rich Karlgaard, the Silicon Valley-based publisher and futurist at Forbes Media and author of the fascinating new book Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement, has had an enormously successful career. But things didn’t start out so well for this archetypal late bloomer. That’s one reason he wrote the
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One way you can tell a thing is really becoming a thing is when you have national accounting firms jumping on it.  So it looks like cannabis is now a thing.  I had a nice discussion with Rick Frimmer, a managing director at EisnerAmper (According to this list  EisnerAmper ranks 18 in the United States.) Rick is
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Typically, when somebody describes a business as being “in the toilet,” it’s bad news. But property management is an industry built on the gritty work of contractors and maintenance technicians, including plumbing repairs. So if you’re a property manager and your company isn’t “in the toilet,” you’re doing something wrong. The quality of your company
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J.B. Hunt Transport Services‘ downbeat earnings call on Monday should put to rest any ideas that the economy is too strong and that the Federal Reserve should tighten interest rates again, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. The trucking and transportation company’s stock sank nearly 5% after missing Wall Street’s expectations and blaming low volume on
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Magnifier and retirement text on blue background. Horizontal composition with copy space. Getty Royalty Free Getty Is there a retirement crisis? The debate centers on how much people have saved or set aside for retirement. But the focus on savings amounts misses the point. Retirement isn’t about achieving some magical retirement savings number. Instead, it’s
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