Month: March 2020

The recent stock market meltdown may have dented Americans’ retirement savings, but there’s a silver lining: The downturn made one common retirement strategy less costly for investors. The strategy, known as a Roth IRA conversion, involves changing a traditional, pre-tax retirement account — such as a 401(k) plan or a qualified individual retirement account — to an
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Getty Images Recent wild market swings have led some 401(k) investors to clamber into safer assets. However,  you may want to press pause before you increase your exposure to bonds or cash-type funds. Net trading activity in 401(k) saving plans was higher in the last week of February than all of the combined activity in
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Robinhood co-founder and co-CEO Vlad Tenev speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt New York event on May 10, 2016. Noam Galai | Getty Images for TechCrunch Rivals to popular investing app Robinhood aren’t jumping at the opportunity to celebrate the company’s recent outage. The U.S. commission-free trading platform experienced a massive outage that began on
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My first experience with the small, but rapidly growing movement to eliminate handshaking was in a chiropractic office in Singapore two weeks ago.   “Are you shaking hands? Some people aren’t these days,” the chiro said, extending his hand before awkwardly retracting it. I did — to break the oddness of the moment — but
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Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport. Source: Orlando International Airport Hyatt Hotels said on Monday it was withdrawing its 2020 earnings outlook, as the coronavirus outbreak spreads across the globe hurting travel demand. The company had previously forecast adjusted profit for 2020 between $760 million and $780 million. Greater China revenue per available room (RevPAR) has been
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Greycroft chairman Alan Patricof said Thursday the recent market pullback was a “blip” and that investors should remain calm. “This is a blip, and we’ve seen a lot of blips in the last 20 years,” Patricof said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Stocks sold off dramatically again on Thursday, continuing a volatile period of trading that
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Getty Images This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. All times below are in Eastern time. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks.  Global cases: More than 95,700, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Global deaths: At least 3,280, according to data compiled by
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