Honda drivers in the U.S. who use the auto firm’s “cloud-based connected car system” can now get their Amazon parcels delivered to the trunk of their car. In a statement earlier this week, Honda said that drivers with a subscription to the HondaLink Remote Services system and a compatible vehicle would be able to use
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 24: Former special counsel, Robert Mueller is seen during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. The former FBI director publicly addressed questions for the first time about his investigation of President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. (Photo
A bed from Wayfair’s new fast furniture line Hashtag Home. Wayfair Will the tropical leaf print pillows that are currently on your sofa end up in the trash along with the black and white chevron throw you had three years ago? If fast furniture continues to rise as quickly as fast fashion has, the answer
null Getty Booking.com, the online travel agent, is the focus of an investigation in Italy into $167m of unpaid VAT on holiday rentals made through its website. Two sources told the FT that the inquiry is focusing on the VAT owed on payments between individuals for rental properties advertised by the popular hotel and holidays
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are parked on the tarmac after being grounded, at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California on March 28, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Shares of Southwest Airlines tumbled Thursday after the low-cost carrier said it doesn’t plan to fly the grounded Boeing 737 Max until
Michael Roman, CEO, 3M Scott Mlyn | CNBC U.S. manufacturing conglomerate 3M on Thursday reported a 39.3% fall in quarterly profit, hurt by a global slowdown in economic growth. Net income attributable to 3M fell to $1.13 billion, or $1.92 per share, in the second quarter ended June 30, from $1.86 billion, or $3.07 per share,
Employees have lunch at the canteen at Facebook’s new headquarters, designed by Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry, at Rathbone Place in central London on December 4, 2017. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Facebook jumped 3.5% in after-hours trading, before falling into the
Dick Cavett’s estate in Montauk is listed at $33.95 million, down from $62 million in 2017. Source: Corcoran It’s been a cruel summer for Hamptons real estate Real estate sales and prices in the Hamptons continued to fall in the second quarter, marking a year and a half of declines, according to a report from
Elon Musk Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Wall Street analysts were disappointed but not surprised with Tesla‘s dismal earnings report on Wednesday after the bell. Many analysts continued to decry the lack of margin and profit improvement and said the company’s report still raises more questions than it answers. The automaker posted a
If you run into a big expense and are eyeing tapping your savings, make sure you know how the move would affect your finances. While there are benefits to paying cash for a big-ticket item or unexpected expense instead of financing it and paying interest on the borrowed money, doing so may cost you more
I have no idea why you’d mess around with dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) when you can “automatically” bag a 7%+ income stream and 82%+ upside with the strategy I’ll show you now. Better yet, this outsized cash flow drops into your account—and grows—every single month! It takes almost no work. (Just one small, but potent,
Getty Images Manhattan’s median sales price reached a record high of $1,161,496 in the second quarter of 2019, a steep 11% increase from a year prior, according to a new report from the listings site StreetEasy. The hike was driven by buyers in the luxury market hurrying to close deals before the revised mansion tax
Tax reform and gun control both arouse passionate dispute. That is one thing that they have in common. Another thing that they have in common is a kind of knowledge imbalance between people arguing opposite sides. The knowledge imbalance might be, in part, a result of the passion. People resistant to gun control, on the
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA in 2004. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty Images Victoria’s Secret owner, L Brands, has hired outside counsel to review the company’s relationship with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
Vans sneakers on beach Source: Vans VF Corp.’s quarterly revenue beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, helped by higher demand for its Vans sneakers and the North Face brand. Net revenue rose 6.3% to $2.27 billion in the first quarter, beating analysts’ estimate of $2.24 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. Net income fell
The PayPal application on an Apple iPhone. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of PayPal fell as much as 6% in after-hours trading after the payments giant missed Wall Street’s estimates for second-quarter revenue and lowered its full-year guidance. PayPal’s revenue for the quarter rose to $4.31 billion, up 12% from a year
Source: Betterment Regulators have asked online wealth advisor Betterment to clarify some details surrounding its new checking and savings accounts just hours after they were launched. The digital wealth-management start-up unveiled new accounts that offer as much as a 2.69% annual yield. But Betterment was asked to provide more specifics to one of its regulators
Thomas Barwick | Taxi | Getty Images The prospect of lower interest rates may put retirees in a bind: Contend with less growth on their “safe money” or consider taking more equity risk. The Federal Reserve is expected to lower the federal funds rate — the key interest rate banks charge to lend to each
Searching for decent retirement income in a world of super-low to negative interest rates has become a real challenge. With central banks the world over – including the newly flip-flopping Fed – signaling renewed monetary softness and an extended period of surreally low rates, a good return is hard to find. Gosh, these days even
Initial Public Offering Getty The number of REIT initial public offerings, or IPOs, has certainly fallen from the good old days. In 2013, for instance, there were 19 of them in all. In 2017, however, there were nine REIT IPOs that, together, raised around $2.9 billion in gross proceeds. For 2018, that number dropped down