Category Archives: Business

Microsoft had discussed selling its Bing search engine to Apple, but the talks never got beyond the preliminary stage, Bloomberg reported. The deal would have allowed Apple to use Bing to replace Alphabet’s Google as the default search engine on Apple products. Details of exactly when the talks took place or the price discussed were… Read More »

SmartAsset: where high-income families are moving Families earning more than $200,000 a year make up only a fraction of all tax returns filed in a given year, but their movements between states can have a significant financial impact. When a state loses more high-income taxpayers than it gains in a given year, tax revenues could… Read More »

Investing in real estate often seems simple: buy a house, rent it out, and receive monthly rent from the tenant. But reality doesn’t always follow the script, as Seattle’s Jason Roth can attest. Roth rented his home in Rainier Valley but the tenant stopped paying rent. Roth is now owed $29,000 in unpaid rent plus… Read More »

Calculate monthly payments for different loan scenarios with our mortgage calculator. The rates you see here will generally not be compared directly to the teaser rates you see advertised online, as those rates are selected as the most attractive, while these rates are averages. Teaser rates may involve paying points up front, or they may… Read More »

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up early gains and fell 0.4% as of 1:30 pm ET on Friday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reportedly seeking a short-term spending bill amid growing challenges ahead of a possible government shutdown. Last Thursday, the speaker was said to have won votes for three bills but lost one.… Read More »

Don’t feel comfortable because today is the last trading day of a bad September for the markets. On the contrary, be on high alert: one could easily argue that October could be equally dismal for stocks. But first these grim facts. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 5% in September, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) lost 6.5%… Read More »

Stocks rose at the open Friday as Wall Street digested a new reading on the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge that could fuel interest rate expectations. S&P 500 futures (^GSPC) gained 0.6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) gained about 0.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led the advance, rising more than 0.9%, with… Read More »

(Bloomberg) — China Evergrande Group has swept away international investors, roiled financial markets and left thousands of suppliers in the lurch. Yet it was the developer’s failure to pay families who invested in its wealth management products that may have broken the camel’s back for Chinese authorities. Most read by Bloomberg Nearly two years after… Read More »

Here’s how much JPMorgan says you can get out of your retirement accounts annually JPMorgan Chase says ongoing inflation and the prospects of sharply lower returns for investors mean retirees should abandon the long-standing 4% rule. This is the rule that retirees can safely withdraw their savings at 4% per year without having to worry… Read More »

low-stress jobs after retirement Just because you retire doesn’t mean you have to stop working. And when work is an option rather than a requirement, you can select a low-stress job that multiplies satisfaction without adding anxiety, but still provides some much-appreciated income. In fact, there are a variety of low-stress, high-paying jobs that are… Read More »