The logo of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse is seen on October 17, 2017 in Zurich. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Swiss watchdog FINMA (the Financial Market Supervisory Authority) said Wednesday it had initiated enforcement proceedings against Credit Suisse over the spying affair that came to light last year. “FINMA has opened enforcement
Month: September 2020
Hotels are rolling out the red carpet for a new breed of traveler: your new puppy. Lockdowns, social distancing and new work-from-home arrangements have caused animal adoptions to soar across the United States. A new TD Ameritrade survey found that 33% of Americans — and half of millennials — have considered fostering or adopting a
Win McNamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images August was a hard month for Donna Crenshaw. First, she stopped getting an extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits, which had been helping pay the bills. Absent that subsidy, Crenshaw gets just $33 a week before tax from North Carolina, where she lives just
Social Security requires more than a power of attorney getty Hopefully, Baby Boomers are paying more attention to their power of attorney (POA) documents. A previous post pointed out that, as valuable as these POA documents are, they will not stand alone for Medicare. The same holds true for Social Security. POAs do not give the
Close-Up Of Small Shopping Boxes With Credit Card On Laptop getty In the years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the physical presence nexus standard for state authority to impose a sales and use tax collection duty on remote sellers in Quill v. North Dakota, sales by remote sellers exploded, due almost entirely to the deployment of the world
Construction projects involve large investments of money and time, and because many owners don’t … [+] have the experience needed to oversee projects, they turn to owner’s reps. Amicon Construction projects require large investments. Mistakes and delays can be exceptionally costly. Shepherding a construction project from start to finish to make the most of the
Convalescent plasma from a recovered coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient is seen at the Central Seattle Donor Center of Bloodworks Northwest during the outbreak in Seattle, Washington, April 17, 2020. Lindsey Wasson | Reuters A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health said Tuesday there is “insufficient data” to show convalescent plasma works against
China’s baby boomers are set to retire in the coming years, and they’re spending in different ways compared to the current retirees, according to a Credit Suisse report. These baby boomers — defined in the report as those born in the 1960s — are more aware of having their health-care needs covered, and that’s set to lead to a “very
Joggers pass the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Erin Scott | Bloomberg | Getty Images Interest rates near zero likely will stay in place not for months but years as the Federal Reserve seeks to reengineer an economy characterized by low inflation and an uneven labor
David Bakke, 48, considered himself pretty responsible when it came to saving money. As a freelance blogger, he had been putting money aside in an emergency fund and had about $6,000 saved before the pandemic. But Covid-19 caused his business to slow while a surprise air conditioning repair set him back $3,000. “It [emergency savings]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai on Jan. 7. Aly Song | Reuters With Apple and Tesla’s shares trading at lower prices after their stock splits on Monday, you might be thinking now is the time to invest in these companies. After all, one
By Nancy Collamer, Next Avenue Contributor Barbara Sher Courtesy Barbara Sher’s YouTube channel With entire industries pummeled by the pandemic, millions of older American workers are being forced to find new career paths. If you’re one of them, you’re likely struggling to find your way forward. There’s no surefire formula for navigating a successful career
Taxpayer puts up the white flag to IRS in exchange for easier terms getty In the wake of last week’s damning report from the Senate Finance Committee, the IRS is crowing over the first opponent to throw in the towel in a Tax Court brawl over a syndicated conservation easement based on the IRS offer
Air quality monitors alert you to otherwise undetectable dangers in your home like radon. AIRTHINGS/GREENROOM // WELLNESS BY DESIGN, TILLER PRESS, © J. GOLD Jamie Gold spent years focused on her work, neglecting her health, eating the wrong foods, putting on weight and living a less-than-healthy lifestyle. One day 11 years ago she decided to
Tang Ming Tung | DigitalVision | Getty Images From jobs to savings to retirement plans, the coronavirus pandemic has upended many Americans’ financial lives. While millions are still unemployed and many have seen their emergency savings run dry, it isn’t all necessarily negative. Many are saving more and spending less. In fact of those surveyed
A federal coronavirus small-business loan program has helped millions of companies stay afloat during the pandemic, but may have also sunk billions of dollars on “fraud, waste, and abuse,” House Democrats said Tuesday. The conclusion from majority staff on the House coronavirus subcommittee came in a new report on the Paycheck Protection Program, a key
A medical provider bags a completed test at the STRIDE Community Health Center’s COVID-19 drive-thru testing site at the Aurora Health and Wellness Plaza March 26, 2020. Andy Cross | The Denver Post | Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered state health agencies to cut ties with Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 08: An attendee walks by the Kodak booth at CES 2019 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 8, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 11 and features about 4,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services
A bear statue stands outside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, operated by Deutsche Boerse AG, in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday, March 13, 2020. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty Images Throw in the towel on a market pullback? It’s getting lonely being a market bear. Investors — even market bulls — who are trying to figure
getty Yes, the Netherlands! Some time ago (almost exactly a year ago, in fact), I started researching what eldercare looks like in other countries, and had put this article together but waited to publish it until I could provide a series of such articles. At the time, my interest was in eldercare per se, and