Month: July 2023

Andresr | E+ | Getty Images After years of low interest payouts, savings accounts now are paying higher yields, after a series of interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. But many Americans still aren’t getting the best rates for their cash. Despite inflation concerns, nearly 70% of middle-income Americans haven’t moved savings to higher-yielding
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I recently spent an afternoon estimating how long I might live, using a few life expectancy calculators. It was this actuary’s idea of fun! It was also very enlightening and sobering, even for someone who works researches and writes about longevity topics. It reinforced the conclusion that I should be planning for a long retirement,
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In this article MMM ALK A SPOT DHR XRX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Maplewood, Minnesota, 3M company global headquarters.  Michael Siluk | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. General Motors — Shares of General Motors rose more than 1% after the automaker raised its
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Getting a foot in the door of a company is often a major hurdle for people with disabilities looking for employment, even 33 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA is a federal law requiring employers to make “reasonable accommodations” — adjustments or modifications — for qualified job applicants or employees
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The risk of inflation is important when swapping real for nominal dollars. Rather than ending the fear of outliving your 401(k), QLACs can exacerbate it. The Wall Street Journal of July 23, 2023 included an article on QLACs — Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts — with this, to me, eye-popping title, “A Retirement Tax Break That
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When a building owner and a tenant sign a lease, the second to last step usually consists of the tenant’s signing the lease and returning it to the owner. Then the owner countersigns and returns the countersigned lease to the tenant. Each party puts the fully signed lease in their file and the parties go
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“Barbenheimer” exploded over the weekend, generating more than $235.5 million in ticket sales and reinvigorating the domestic box office. “Barbie” tallied around $155 million during its first three days in theaters, the highest opening of 2023. Its counterpart “Oppenheimer” made $82.4 million over the weekend, according to numbers released Monday. related investing news The ‘Barbenheimer’
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