Month: May 2019

Facing both the tightest labor market and the highest interest rates in years, small business owners often face a tough trade-off: whether to emphasize hiring and retaining employees or focus on other aspects of running their businesses. In most cases, according to the latest CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey, larger small businesses want to get bigger
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Ah, the tides of May are on us. May marks the beginning of the dreaded summer swoon in financial markets, a period – not ending until October – when stocks and other instruments of their ilk have “historically” posted poor returns, at least often enough to get the reputation that the summer stinks for stocks.
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ALINA Residences is a new multifamily residential development coming to downtown Boca Raton. Garcia Stromberg Sandwiched between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Fla. is among the fastest-growing cities in South Florida. The city’s job growth, entrepreneurial expansion and surging economic diversity is reflected in residential and commercial expansion, business development and more and
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Two prominent market voices squared off Wednesday over the future of cryptocurrencies in a debate that ended with a bet over a T-shirt. Economist Nouriel Roubini, who for many years wore the sobriquet “Dr. Doom,” said bitcoin and its peers don’t even deserve to be called “cryptocurrencies.” Investor and former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz
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Cultura/Antonio Saba | Getty Images At cocktail parties, financial advisors usually wouldn’t attract the biggest crowd. It’s a profession that never garnered much interest before the Great Recession. But times have changed. As retirement accounts were wiped away and market volatility took hold, investors didn’t mind a little hand-holding from a pro. That’s where financial
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Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses Social Security’s earnings test, whether to file retroactively before 70, when spousal benefits can become available, how delayed retirement credits (DRCs) are calculated and applied and how foreign pensions
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