The only 3 times you should rent a home instead of buying one, according to money expert David Bach
Self-made millionaire and co-founder of AE Wealth Management David Bach wants young people to buy homes. “I don’t want you to wait. I want you to be thinking about buying real estate sooner versus later,” he tells CNBC Make It. That’s because homeownership is “the ultimate escalator to building wealth,” he says. “People who own […]
This is what Sarah Michelle Gellar did with her first ‘Buffy’ paycheck
Today Sarah Michelle Gellar is an actress, co-founder of organic-baking kit company Foodstirs, wife to Freddie Prinze Jr. and mom to two young kids. But In the 1990s, Gellar was a teen icon. Even then though, she was refreshingly responsible with her finances. Gellar, 41, has been acting since she was a kid — from […]
Microsoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US company
Shares of Microsoft remain up nearly 4 percent from Wednesday, when the four-decade-old software company beat quarterly profit expectations, driven by its cloud computing business that competes with Amazon’s. San Francisco: Microsoft Corp regained its spot as the second most valuable U.S. company on Friday after a disappointing quarterly report from Amazon.com wiped $65 billion […]
Exxon lawsuit aims at AB
A lawsuit filed this week in a U.S. court says ExxonMobil has dramatically underestimated the risks its oilsands assets face from efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The lawsuit, filed after a three-year investigation by the New York attorney general’s office, charges that Exxon deliberately lowballed by $30 billion the carbon costs faced by 14 different […]
US economy grows
The U.S. economy grew at a robust annual rate of 3.5 per cent in the July-September quarter as the strongest burst of consumer spending in nearly four years helped offset a sharp drag from trade. The Commerce Department said Friday that the third quarter’s gross domestic product, the country’s total output of goods and services, […]
Liberals and Labor urged to come clean on business paying for political access
Analysis suggests almost 100 companies could be paying thousands to mix with politicians The Greens and anti-corruption campaigners have urged Labor and the Liberals to reveal the corporate participants of their respective business forums, saying an analysis suggests almost 100 businesses could be paying tens of thousands of dollars to mix with politicians. Business forum […]