Antony Ressler, co-founder of Ares Management, takes photos with students of the AltFinance Fellowship. Marcus Shaw, AltFinance The search for bigger profits and top talent is nothing new on Wall Street, but some firms are turning to an almost untapped resource: historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. The AltFinance Fellowship is the brainchild of
Month: February 2023
Hoxton/Sam Edwards | Getty Images After kicking off tax season with customer service and technology upgrades, the IRS this week unveiled a new option allowing taxpayers to respond more easily to certain agency notices. The new feature lets taxpayers and professionals respond to nine notices online by digitally uploading requested documents, rather than responding by
Olezzo | iStock | Getty Images There’s no question 2022 was a rough year for investors. With record-high inflation, economic uncertainty and aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve to combat rising prices, stocks took a beating. All three of the major indexes had their worst year since 2008: The S&P 500 Index dropped
There is a big difference between managing direct taxes, such as corporate tax, and indirect taxes, such as sales tax and value added tax (VAT). While for corporate taxes, it is irrelevant where the customer is located or the goods are shipped to, for indirect taxes, every transaction detail matters and is crucial to determining
Meganne Wecker is truly one of a kind. In the grand scheme of the furniture industry, there are very few brands that manufacture in the United States, particularly outside of North Carolina. There are even fewer that are run by female executives. But that’s what makes Meganne Wecker a true unicorn. She is the president
Tahir Johnson said he’s on track to be one of the first people with a marijuana related conviction to open a licensed dispensary in New Jersey. “The generational wealth this will create for my family is surreal,” he said. Stefan Sykes for CNBC TRENTON, N.J. — Tahir Johnson has been arrested on marijuana possession charges
In this article HAS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Hasbro Monopoly board game arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Feb. 6, 2022. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hasbro‘s 2023 outlook might feel like déjà vu. At first, anyway. The toymaker on Thursday announced its fourth-quarter results while issuing conservative guidance for
In this article AN TXRH RDFN CHRW AMAT ROKU DE DASH DKNG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: DraftKings — DraftKings shares surged more than 8% after the sports betting company posted fourth-quarter results that beat expectations. The company
National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited readers to submit a digital photograph in one of four categories: nature, people, places and animals. The contest required that photographs be largely unaltered. According to the rules, “only
A gas station in Arlington, Virginia. Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images New government data for January shows high inflation has continued into the new year. That has some economists worried high prices may prove to be sticky, even as the Federal Reserve works to slow inflation by raising interest rates.
Would you call someone who starts a side hustle an entrepreneur? That’s the problem with side hustles. They usually start with “fun” and, from there, end up in “business.” As a result, the true nature of side hustles can confuse you. Should you worry about side hustles the same way you worry about your day
Taxpayers lose quite a bit of money in flexible spending accounts (FSAs) each year while trying to save a few tax dollars. FSAs are fairly simple. Before the start of the year, an employee elects to defer part of his or her compensation into an FSA. The deferred amount is excluded from gross income for
As a general matter, communications between attorneys and their clients are “privileged,” meaning they don’t have to be handed over to the other side in litigation relating to the matters covered in the communications. That process of combing through and handing over (or refusing to hand over) documents is called discovery. Wars over discovery often
In this article RNO-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Renault CEO Luca de Meo on Thursday questioned the wisdom of price cuts rivals have been implementing in a bid to bolster market share for their electric vehicle fleets. “We’ve seen competitors moving prices up and down, etc., etc. this is their decision. But I
In this article KHC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Heinz brand tomato ketchup arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Friday, July 22, 2022. Kraft Heinz Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 27. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kraft Heinz on Wednesday beat Wall Street’s earnings
Bao Fan, founder and chief executive officer of China Renaissance, speaks at a conference in California in 2016. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Prominent Chinese investment banker Bao Fan is missing, his company China Renaissance Holdings said late Thursday. China Renaissance said it “has been unable to contact Mr. Bao Fan,” according
A shopper browses meat department at a Los Angeles supermarket on Feb. 13, 2023 in Los Angeles. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images A recent Morning Consult survey recently found almost half of adults — 46% — think the U.S. is already in a recession. Such a downturn — traditionally defined as
A recent study from the TIAA Institute reports that longevity literacy is just as important as financial literacy and that retirees with strong longevity literacy tend to experience better financial outcomes in retirement. An important challenge to ensuring a financially secure retirement is that most older Americans underestimate how long they could live. ADVERTISEMENT “Longevity
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the national debt will increase by $19 trillion over the next decade under current law, $3 trillion more than it projected last May. But for all the squawking in Washington over how to deal with deficits and debt, nearly all of the increases will come in spending Congress and President
Heading into the pandemic, lots of commentators said that retail and especially shopping malls were dead or dying. They were buried by ecommerce. They would never come back. People also said the pandemic moved that process along even faster than before. Today, however, the story has changed. Retail vacancies have dropped substantially. Retail seems to
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