Month: January 2021

Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about spousal benefit rates after taking early retirement benefits, when the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reductions are applied and potential filing options after a divorce. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc, which markets
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Robinhood’s halting of trading of certain stocks has many users reconsidering whether it’s the right platform to hold their cryptocurrency. Some users have considered moving their crypto assets to other platforms, only to realize that Robinhood does not allow cryptocurrency withdrawals. This leaves Robinhood crypto users stuck between a rock and a hard place. If
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Dr. Sonia Macieiewski (R) and Dr. Nita Patel, Director of Antibody discovery and Vaccine development, look at a sample of a respiratory virus at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland on March 20, 2020, one of the labs developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, COVID-19. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Biotech firm Novavax said
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NBCUniversal kicks off it’s new Peacock streaming service. Todd Williamson | Peacock | NBCUniversal | Getty Images Comcast is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings before-the-bell on Thursday. Here are the key numbers Wall Street is expecting: Earnings per share: 48 cents expected, according to Refinitiv survey of analysts. Revenue: $26.78 billion expected, according to
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To defy Wall Street hedge funds and the stocks they bet against, a group of retail investors on Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets rallied together to help drive the stock price of GameStop, AMC Entertainmentand BlackBerry, to name a few. Many traditional investors are concerned by the speculative trading, but billionaire Mark Cuban is not one of
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New York University finance professor Aswath Damodaran told CNBC on Thursday the trading frenzy in GameStop and AMC Entertainment shares do not change the companies’ fundamental problems and calls into question the long-term strategy for online investors who sparked the short squeeze in the stocks. Known as the “Dean of Valuation” for his company analyses, Damodaran
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Green’s 2021 Trader Tax Guide GreenTraderTax Green’s 2021 Trader Tax Guide covers the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act’s impact on investors, traders, and investment managers. The highlights of this year’s guide are included below. TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT Tax Cuts and Jobs
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Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, pictured this month. (Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images If all else fails, there is always a SPAC. WeWork, the coworking business that attempted—and failed—to go public in 2019, could soon reach that milestone via a special purpose acquisition company, according
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An AstraZeneca vaccine production line. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Union has suggested that drugmaker AstraZeneca divert supplies of its coronavirus vaccine from the U.K. to mainland Europe, as a battle over production delays and supply continues. It comes after AstraZeneca told the EU last week that it would initially deliver far
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