Photographer: Atul Loke/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP China has been on an investment spree in recent years, at home and abroad. At home, investment has been one of the engines that, together with exports, have fueled its robust growth. Abroad, investments have served China’s ambitions to control the South China Sea and secure a
Month: July 2019
We all know the old adage “Feelings aren’t facts.” But sometimes, it seems, they are. tom-rumble-7lvzopTxjOU-unsplash Unemployment is down. Mortgage rates are down. The stock market is up. So why don’t more people want to buy real estate? Real estate purchases throughout most of the country are made as much for emotional as for financial
Getty One day soon, the IRS will release its near-final version of the 2020 Form W-4 that workers are supposed to use to calculate their federal income tax withholding. The new form is intended to fully reflect the big changes in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and, says the IRS, make it
President Donald Trump Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images Pharmaceutical companies may be in the direct path of President Donald Trump‘s next big policy push to lower drug prices after the administration abandoned a proposal that would have eliminated rebates from government drug plans. Earlier Thursday, the White House said the Trump
Delivery trucks sit parked at loading docks outside the Fastenal Co. distribution center in Jessup, Pennsylvania. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images For those who don’t see the trade war with China hurting U.S. business, a big industrial with a $17 billion market value just sounded the alarm on tariffs costs and related inflation.
Traders work the floor of the NYSE. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Another day, another market milestone. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above 27,000 for the first time ever on Thursday, just a day after the S&P 500 topped 3,000. Here’s a look at the stocks that drove the last 1,000 points. It took the
The US flag flies over shipping cranes and containers in Long Beach, California on March 4, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images This upcoming earnings season is shaping up to be a weak one. Because of uncertainty around trade wars and global growth, a bulk of U.S. companies are lowering the bar for
JPMorgan Chase is trying to make it harder for its credit card customers to sue the bank in court by requiring them to go into private arbitration to settle disputes. The opportunity for JPMorgan Chase credit cardholders to opt out of binding arbitration expires in a month. The bank notified customers in May that their
Remember that commercial where everyone walking around had a big, huge, seven- or eight-digit number hovering over their head? That was their retirement number. They needed to save that much money to retire in comfort. How many saw that million dollar plus target and instantly gave up? It’s like when you first set out on
Deborah Berke Winnie Au For the first time in U.S. history, four of the Ivy League Deans of Architecture are female. Among them is Deborah Berke, the first female leading the department at Yale University. Berke has been a faculty member at the college since 1987 and took over as dean in 2016, following Robert
Introducing the Forbes OZ 20 Forbes Ambitious, bold, bipartisan—and controversial, Opportunity Zones can be a powerful policy tool to spark transformative investment in America’s left behind communities. Passed as part of the 2017 U.S. tax overhaul, Opportunity Zones offer massive potential tax breaks for investors and organizations who plow unrealized gains into impoverished areas. Based
Lululemon opens a 20,000-square-foot store in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, at 944 W. North Ave. Source: Lululemon CHICAGO, Il. — Lululemon is opening its biggest store ever Thursday morning, and you can do a lot more than just shop there. The store in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, at 944 W. North
Economic forecaster Lakshman Achuthan has a warning for investors: Brace for earnings to go negative. According to the Economic Cycle Research Institute co-founder, the global slowdown is unleashing major challenges for U.S. corporations. Achuthan turns to a chart of S&P 500 earnings growth to build his case. “Every time you have a cyclical slowdown in
Check out the companies making headlines in the premarket Thursday: Delta Air Lines — The airline reported better-than-expected earnings, lifting its stock by more than 2%. Delta reported a profit of $2.35 per share, topping a Refinitiv estimate of $2.28. Delta also posted a record revenue of $12.5 billion for the quarter. Amazon — Amazon
krisanapong detraphiphat | Moment | Getty Images Once derided on the cover of Time magazine as the “Me Me Me Generation,” millennials have, in fact, become the “Owe Owe Owe Generation.” This group originally showed a healthy aversion to credit card debt. From 2008 to 2012, only 41% of those in their 20s had a
Shoppers browse the aisles during a Black Friday sale at a Target store, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, in Newport, Ky. John Minchillo | AP Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: Goldman Sachs initiated Target, Walmart, Costco, Home Depot & Lowe’s as ‘buy’ & adds Target to the ‘conviction buy’ list Goldman
Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images It’s an email every financial advisor should expect to receive at least once. Financial advisor Charles Failla recalls receiving an email from a client asking for about $5,000. She was vacationing in the Caribbean and claimed the hotel where she was staying didn’t accept credit cards. “She needed cash,”
Getty Images If you’ve been racking your brain about where to retire on a budget, it might be time to think outside the U.S. A new report by International Living, which publishes information about living abroad, lists destinations where you can coast on less than $30,000 a year. To be sure, retiring in a new
Watching the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team (or as it should be simply known henceforth, “The U.S. Soccer Team”) on its march to World Cup victory was riveting. The games were entertaining, the goals exhilarating, and the players exceptional. But the team’s remarkable fourth World Cup title also reveals an undercurrent of inequality, one that is
All-season room on the fourth floor VHT Studios Retired Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén has put his Chicago home of the past eight years on the market for $2.5 million. Though Guillén treasures his contemporary multi-level home in the vibrant Bucktown neighborhood, he and his wife, Ibis, are ready to start a new chapter
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