Month: September 2020

Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about switching between benefits while Social Security offices are shut down due to the pandemic, how to begin benefits as early as possible and when it may be possible to claim on former and current spouses’ records. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University
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Peloton said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter sales surged 172%, as its high-tech stationary bike and treadmill became two of the hottest commodities for people looking to workout from home during the coronavirus pandemic.  The fitness equipment maker also offered Wall Street an eye-popping outlook for the current quarter and fiscal 2021, with sales of its bikes
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Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Michael Corbat speaks at a European Financial Forum event in Dublin, Ireland February 13, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters When Citigroup president Jamie Forese announced he was stepping down in April 2019, it set off a chain of events that culminated Thursday when the firm announced it will appoint Jane
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Firefighters work to protect homes in Boulder Creek, Calif., on Friday, August 22, 2020. (Photo by … [+] Dylan Bouscher/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images Just before the CZU August Lightning Complex wildfire devastated the area, realtor Lance Hulsey listed a house just outside Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
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UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 10: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is seen in the basement … [+] of the Capitol after a procedural Senate vote on a coronavirus relief bill failed on Thursday, September 10, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images If you invest
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The U.S. reported 34,256 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, after several days of total daily new cases below 30,000. Those low numbers were likely impacted by the holiday weekend, which shuttered local health departments and other offices. Epidemiologists are closely following the data after Labor Day for signs of a surge in new
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D Color Flawless Diamond Source: Sotheby’s Sotheby’s is set to auction off a 102-carat diamond that could become the most expensive ever sold to an online bidder. The stone, a 102.39-carat D Colour Flawless Oval Diamond, could fetch between $10 million and $30 million. Only seven flawless white diamonds of more than 100 carats have
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday praised the appointment of Jane Fraser as the next chief executive office of Citigroup, making her the first woman to lead a U.S. megabank.  “The glass ceiling in banking maybe is finally cracking,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” Citi is the third-largest U.S. bank by assets.  Fraser is set to
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KLH49 | E+ | Getty Images States paying the $300 unemployment boost The 19 states represent about a third of the 49 states that applied to the federal government for the aid. Those states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island,
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