Stock futures declined in overnight trading Monday after Wall Street wrapped up a tumultuous month with steep losses as investors grappled with the Federal Reserve’s policy shift. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 80 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures both traded 0.3% lower. While stocks pulled off a tech-driven rally
Month: January 2022
JohnnyGreig | E+ | Getty Images Embracing diversity is good for business. More diverse companies, both at board level and throughout the workforce, can outperform on financial metrics such as return on equity and higher earnings per share. They can also generate higher returns compared to their indices, according to GS Sustain 2020. Moreover, embracing
Jamie Grill | Getty Images In a competitive job market, equity compensation such as stock options — the chance to buy stock in the company that employs you at a specific price — can be an incentive to sign on and stick around. It can also be nerve-wracking when these assets underperform. “Part of the
Valentine’s Day is almost here. If the pressure is on to find a meaningful gift is on, why not consider something special for the home? After all, Valentine’s Day gifts for the home last far longer than yet another box of chocolates. Whether you are looking for a gift for a husband, a wife, a
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced a dividends received deduction (DRD) in new section 245A. Among its provisions was a disallowance of credits or deductions for foreign taxes paid on dividends eligible for the DRD. New regs clarify the operation of the disallowance. Published on January 4, T.D. 9959 includes new reg. section 1.245A(d)-1(a)–(e). The rules disallow a foreign tax
Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers – part of what is now called The Great Resignation. Around 4 million workers have quit each month between July and November 2021. Erica Leman had maintained a side hustle as a wedding photographer for 12 years. Like millions of other Americans, Leman, who was working in
Here we go again. The stock market at times can do some very scary things. It’s possible that the market has entered a cycle where those scary things may happen more often than normal. In January alone, there’s been three days where the potential for a correction – or a 10% fall from the market
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptocurrency exchange FTX saw its valuation swell to $32 billion in a new funding round announced Monday, highlighting continued appetite for the sector even as investors grow wary
10’000 Hours | DigitalVision | Getty Images Bonds take on a bigger role in retirement, as investors take chips off the table to protect their nest egg. Unfortunately, it’s easy to get tripped up — namely, by chasing returns and taking too much risk, according to financial advisors. “Bonds are the single biggest mistake I
In this article MGM A Ladbrokes betting shop, operated by Entain Plc, in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images In a crowded gambling landscape, technology increasingly gives operators an edge. Global sports betting and gaming company Entain said Monday it is launching Ennovate, an innovation lab
In 2008, then-Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass wrote a column about corruption in Illinois, “In Combine, cash is king, corruption is bipartisan.” Commenting in the middle of the trial then underway for political fixer Tony Rezko, Kass relates a conversation with former-Senator Peter Fitzgerald, “the Republican maverick from Illinois who tried to fight political corruption
Freeman H. Shen, Founder, Chairman & CEO of WM Motor, speaks during Fireside Chat on Day 2 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou on November 28, 2018 in Nansha, Guangzhou, China. Dave Zhong/Getty Images for CNBC International BEIJING — Covid-related restrictions have increased production costs for Chinese electric car start-up
When it comes to celebrity gossip Charley Sheen, who I mainly remember as the star of Two And A Half Men, is in a class by himself. You could for example look up the Charlie Sheen Effect, if that sort of thing interests you. At any rate, given all his other issues, it is not shocking that
Vax, Scanland, Percival, Vex, Grog, Pyke and Keyleth in “The Legend of Vox Machina,” a new animated series based on “Critical Role.” Amazon Studios Within the first minute of Critical Role’s new animated series “The Legend of Vox Machina” a boulder smashes an adventurer to a bloody pulp, a spellcaster is sliced into several pieces,
Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about when to file to maximize spousal and survivor benefits, when continued earnings do and do not increase benefit rates and whether benefits can be withheld to pay off back taxes. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security
In this article HOOD Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Robinhood is planning to roll out a feature to let its millions of clients trade stocks well outside of normal market hours. “We’re also close to delivering a feature that our customers have been asking for: an ever larger
More than 45 million Americans collectively owe over $1.7 trillion in student debt. Economists say this mounting total worsens generational inequality, slows economic growth and exacerbates racial disparities. On a micro-economic level, borrowers also face serious consequences in their day-to-day lives. According to CNBC + Acorn’s recently released Invest in You Student Loan Survey conducted
In this photo illustration a TikTok logo seen displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages in the background. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images When TikTok creator Boman Martinez-Reid first got an email from Creative Artists Agency he ignored it. As an Ontario native, he saw the acronym CAA and assumed it was
A study conducted by the American Psychological Association in 2021 shows 61% of Americans cite “money” as a “very/somewhat significant” cause of stress. This was the leading cause of stress (unless you were employed, in which case “work” was the top source of stress). You can’t blame Covid alone for this. An anxiety and stress
People wear protective masks as they stand outside of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) in the Financial Street on April 17, 2020 in Beijing, Emmanuel Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s forthcoming rules on overseas IPOs will apply to Chinese companies that want to list in Hong Kong, the
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