The real estate market was thrown into a tumultuous state when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Between people losing work and being afraid or unable to move, the year in lockdown made a significant impact on the market. Even as life regains a sense of normalcy, there are several factors that will continue to impact housing
Month: September 2021
In this article BNTX Business colleagues with protective face masks using infrared thermometer for measuring temperature before entrance in office. filadendron | E+ | Getty Images Office politics has been a thing of the past for most of us over the last 18 months, as millions of people worked from home throughout Covid-induced lockdowns. Now,
U.S. stock index futures were modestly higher during overnight trading on Sunday as the S&P 500 comes off its longest daily losing streak since February. Fears over slowing economic growth and rising inflation have weighed on the market. Futures contracts tied to Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 91 points. S&P 500 futures advanced 0.26%, while
Winner Russia’s Daniil Medvedev (R) and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hold their trophies after the 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men’s final match against at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 12, 2021. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Novak Djokovic’s hopes of a calendar Grand Slam and
A breeder feeds piglets at a pig farm on May 13, 2020, in Bijie, Guizhou Province of China. Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Massive swings in pork prices in the last two years are roiling China’s hog farm industry. To capitalize on a doubling in prices in 2019, the five largest pork
In this article .SPX .DJI The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index just suffered five straight days of losses and their worst weekly performance since — wait for it — June. Investors went into the summer easing up a little bit on stocks and have exited the summer with a similar bout of
Chewy CEO Sumit Singh (C) rings the opening bell to commence the day’s trading for the Chewy Inc. IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), June 14, 2019. Andrew Kelly | Reuters From e-commerce-driven pet healthcare, to cybersecurity, to online sports gaming, upside potential lies in many sectors of the stock market. Financial data
FatCamera | E+ | Getty Images It’s a situation that appears incongruous: Congressional Democrats want to expand Medicare’s benefits while a trust fund that supports the program is facing insolvency. Indeed, some Republican lawmakers have seized on that looming problem as a reason to oppose a proposal to add dental, vision and hearing coverage to
Studies suggest that most—at least 70%—of financial planning recommendations aren’t implemented. While we can hypothesize a number of singular reasons why this number might be so ugly, I’ll suggest that it’s actually a confluence of (at least) four factors that have led to this failure, two that are systematic and two that are psychological: 1) Sales-orientated
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dropped steeply on September 7 despite the feel-good news that El Salvador has made bitcoin legal tender along with U.S. dollars. In fact, the crypto flash crash wiped out $400 billion in market value. Bitcoin itself dipped about 10% to less than $44,000 but recouped some of that by day’s end.
A tourist boat passes cowboy statues along Oklahoma City’s Bricktown Canal. Western heritage is a big draw in Oklahoma’s capital. Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau Ready to head out on vacation after the long pandemic-era drought — but not looking to go broke in the process? Online airport parking platform ParkSleepFly has ranked the
Emma Raducanu of Great Britain celebrates winning match point to defeat Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada during the second set of their Women’s Singles final match on Day Thirteen of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 11, 2021. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Elsa | Getty Images
Federal unemployment benefits ended this month for millions of Americans and data show that workers in Virginia might feel it the most. The federal government’s enhanced unemployment benefit added $300 to weekly unemployment checks issued by states and also expanded coverage to the self-employed and freelancers, such as rideshare drivers and musicians. That expansion, called
Chassity Jackson, founder of Battle Beauties Fashion, is worried about falling back into a depression over money. Courtesy: Chassity Jackson Chassity Jackson is worried about her financial future. While the 42-year-old Air Force veteran is financially secure now, that wasn’t always the case. Two years ago, she was living in a car with her 11-year-old
Everything’s coming up roses for the Shubert Organization. As the Broadway landlord begins to reopen its 17 Broadway theaters for the first time in 18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic, it will also receive more than $82.3 million from a blockbuster real estate deal. Shubert recently agreed to sell two vacant lots on Eighth Avenue
In this article BYND Vegan chicken quick-serve restaurants like San Antonio, Texas-based Project Pollo are aiming directly at Chick-fil-A and its fried chicken sandwich as the plant-based meat industry rises against one of fast-food’s recent best-selling menu items. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images In an iconic scene from 1970’s film “Five Easy Pieces,” a
Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo was hit with a $250 million fine from a banking regulator after it failed to properly execute a mortgage loss mitigation program. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Thursday that the bank engaged in “unsafe or unsound practices” tied to its
As Congress debates whether to extend the major, but temporary, changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) it adopted earlier this year, a crucial question is whether it should keep the credit fully refundable. A new Tax Policy Center analysis finds that, for low-income families, full refundability is a key element of the CTC reforms. For families
Travel + Leisure Club is a new subscription travel booking and concierge service. Travel + Leisure Group/Travel + Leisure Co. From private-jet clubs to theme park memberships, subscription services are increasingly the way to go when it comes to vacations and other leisure trips. For example, Internet sites Tripadvisor and Scott’s Cheap Flights — both
In a year when we all need to breathe deeply, Breezeway, Behr’s color of the year, is a tranquil, soothing pale green hue. Soft and amenable to a vast range of color pairings, the peaceful shade evokes sea glass, tranquil mornings and young girls in lightweight summer frocks. Breezeway fosters feelings of coolness and peace:
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