Month: May 2019

The utility of annuities as investment products is one of the most sharply contested subjects in the financial world. The objective of dispassionate observers should be to help clear the smoke and offer simple guidelines to form smarter opinions about one of the most promising—but also reputedly one of the most damaging, tax-oppressive, costly, and
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Fighting Wall Street looting Main Street- state and local government workers’ pensions– is a job tailor-made for Elizabeth Warren– if only she’ll do it. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) In October 2016, the Rhode Island Retired Teachers Association (RIRTA) wrote to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren on behalf of its over 600 members pleading for her assistance. The
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Lowe‘s shares plummeted 9% before the bell Wednesday after the company posted mixed fiscal first-quarter results and cut its forecast for the fiscal year. Here’s how the company did, compared with what Wall Street was expecting, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.22 adjusted, vs. $1.33 estimated Revenue: $17.741 billion, vs. $17.664 billion
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Frank Polich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stocks that would benefit from a federal infrastructure spending program fell more than the rest of the market and hit their lows of the day after President Donald Trump abruptly ended a meeting on infrastructure spending with Democratic leaders. Stocks like Granite Construction, Nucor, Martin Marietta Materials, Simpson
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When celebrity plastic surgeon Raj Kanodia started building his 34,000-square-foot mansion to flip for a profit, his real estate friends gave him a warning. “They said, ‘You’re way out of your league,'” Kanodia recalled. “They told me, ‘You’ll run out of money and you’ll be forced to sell it to service your debts.'” Four years
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The booster of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lands on the company’s barge after launching the Spaceflight SSO-A mission. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in a previously secret lawsuit revealed on Wednesday, challenged the Air Force awarding $2.3 billion in rocket development contracts last year to competitors Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance, which is a
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Paul Bradbury | OJO Images | Getty Images Investing can be stressful. Anyone holding stocks and bonds through the 2008 financial crisis knows that all too well. For the financial advisors who help investors navigate the investment markets, it’s no picnic, either. A recent survey of investors and financial advisors by the Financial Planning Association
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