(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images Key Takeaways It’s been a mixed bag for Wall Street this earning season, with some banks beating estimates and some notching major misses Some themes across the board include a massive slowdown in investment banking revenues, as M&A and IPO activity plunged during a volatile year The net interest More
Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key Takeaways Mortgage refinance applications are down 88% since this time last year, with new mortgage applications also down 46% over the same period. It comes off the back of rapidly rising rates, which have made mortgages hundreds of dollars more expensive… More
Filling taxes online concept. Vector of people filling tax form documents using internet servicesgetty The amounts exempt from federal estate and gift taxes are adjusted for inflation each year. The IRS has come out with the exemption amounts for 2023. Gift and Estate Tax Exemption: The amount you can give during your lifetime, or at… More
Pay less attention to stock prices and more to what your portfolio companies are earning. Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)Getty Images Is the bear market about to resume? Maybe. But even if it doesn’t, there will be a big correction at some point and then another and… More
Topline Shares of Hong Kong fintech firm AMTD Digital continued to plunge on Thursday, crashing for a second day in a row after rising more than 21,000% since its July IPO, with experts calling it a new meme stock and warning investors to stay away from the stock as its valuation looks like “an absolute… More
Topline Home prices, which have been shooting up since last year, grew at a slower pace in April, showing signs of a potential cool down in the red-hot housing market, according to new data from S&P Case-Shiller on Tuesday. Home prices are up significantly from last year but could cool by later in 2022 thanks… More
Topline Stocks fell and rates on government bonds surged on Wednesday as investor concerns about a slowdown in economic growth continued to weigh on markets, while oil jumped to a 13-week high on the back of climbing U.S. gas prices. Stocks will struggle for direction until there are “clear signs” that the Fed is taming… More
Topline Billionaire investor Warren Buffett continues to see opportunities in the stock market despite a selloff in recent months, recently snapping up more shares of energy company Occidental Petroleum, as some of his biggest holdings continue to outperform despite surging volatility this year. Some of the billionaire investor’s big bets in energy and consumer-related stocks… More
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Topline Shares of Facebook parent Meta fell over 25% on Thursday—erasing over $230 billion in market value for its worst trading session in history—after the company’s dismal quarterly earnings report showed declining users and surging expenses related to the company’s metaverse project. Facebook’s stock had its biggest drop ever, losing a quarter of its value… More
Donald Trump at the Women’s British Open Golf Championships in Turnberry, Scotland. AFP via Getty Images A court in Scotland has ruled that Scottish ministers do not have a “duty” to investigate Donald Trump’s purchase of Turnberry Golf Club using an “unexplained wealth order.” The ruling is a victory for the Trump Organization, which has… More
By Kimberly A. Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek, Next Avenue Editor’s note: This article is co-written by a member of the board of editors at EIX.org from The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, which is a funder of a Next Avenue. ASSOCIATED PRESS The new, buzzy Netflix NFLX documentary on the late, beloved, iconic public broadcasting TV host, painter Bob… More
Real estate investment trusts REITs investing concept. getty Investors in these real estate investment trusts benefit from dividends greater than the yields paid by owning 10-year Treasury notes. These REITS are cheap, too, if you can judge by applying classic valuation techniques: each one is now trading below book value. The catch may be that… More
2nd December 1963: American President Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses the nation on his first … [+] thanksgiving day television programme, broadcast from the executive offices of the White House. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Getty Images In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government embarked on an unprecedented surge of fiscal spending and monetary easing… More
Getty getty When he passed away last week, Bernie Madoff still had 139 years left on his prison sentence. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers the story—Madoff swindled thousands of investors for billions of dollars, running one of the most elaborate Ponzi schemes in history. In an ideal world, Madoff’s conviction would have been… More
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