Month: August 2023

A Miami supermarket in July 2023. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images The forecast for the post-pandemic U.S. economy once called for a recession. Now many experts are backing off those predictions. In the latest about-face, 69% of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics said they see a “soft
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Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin This segment of What’s Ahead lays out the telltale signs for a possible Reaganesque candidate emerging from tomorrow’s Republican debate. Reagan projected an exciting, optimistic view of the future, while effectively eviscerating the destructive policies and principles of his opponents. He never came across as acerbic
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Hurricanes, tornadoes and floods likely drive more headlines, but severe heat waves are actually the most dangerous weather events humans face. According to Scientific American, they’re deadlier than the other three hazards combined. There’s plenty of reporting about the effects extreme heat has on our bodies, and even on our mental health, but what about
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In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a vaccine from Pfizer that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of hospitalization among babies in the U.S. Pfizer’s RSV shot is already approved and available in
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In this article TSLA NSSC NVDA PR ESTE PANW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Signage outside Palo Alto Networks headquarters in Santa Clara, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palo Alto Networks — The
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When Barbara Corcoran started her real estate firm at age 23, she quickly noticed a difference between herself and her competitors. “I realized that everyone successful looked the part,” Corcoran, now a 74-year-old millionaire investor, said in a recent TikTok video. “At the time, I was still wearing my old navy blue pea coat from
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In this article GLENMARK-IN TEVA TEVA-IL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Boxes of tablets produced by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drugmaker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $225 million in criminal fines over five years and divest its version of a generic cholesterol drug to resolve charges related to
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An exterior view of the Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, May 30, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Palo Alto Networks — The security software provider jumped 15.2% after Palo Alto beat expectations for earnings when reporting after the bell Friday. Goldman Sachs reiterated the
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Section 871(m) treats payments under equity derivative contracts that reference U.S.-source dividends as if they are equivalent to U.S.-source dividends, potentially triggering a U.S. withholding tax. Reg. section 1.871-15(q) interprets section 871(m) to exempt qualified derivatives dealers (QDDs) from tax and withholding requirements if overwithholding would occur. Published September 12, 2022, Notice 2022-37, 2022-37 IRB
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One of the more unique things about Texas and the Texas housing market is that, back during the great housing bubble and crash of the late-2000s, much of the Lone Star State was spared the worst effects. This was largely due to the fact that Texas home lenders had retained more traditional, conservative lending standards;
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In this article ADYEN-NL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Adyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization . Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Spirits were high when Dutch payments firm Adyen floated on the Amsterdam Stock
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Annuity sales are soaring, but still only a minority of retirees own them. If more people were aware of one key advantage of annuities, they probably would reposition part of their retirement portfolios into annuities. In this post I’m talking about annuities that pay guaranteed lifetime income. These generally are the single premium immediate annuity
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A box of the diabetes drug Ozempic rests on a pharmacy counter in Los Angeles, April 17, 2023. Mario Tama | Getty Images Blockbuster weight-loss drugs are priced significantly higher in the U.S. than in other large, high-income countries, according to a new analysis released Thursday.  The report from KFF, a health policy organization, comes
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