5 ways to teach your kids the art of negotiation
The finances of young Americans are not in great shape. The typical millennial has less than a week of salary (less than $1,000) saved for emergencies and leaves school with more than $37,000 in debt, on average. Many have nothing saved for retirement. Compounding these problems, millennials are also hesitant to negotiate: Only 37% of milennials have ever asked for a raise compared to […]
3 Great Reasons to Start Taking Social Security Benefits at 62
Claiming Social Security benefits early could reduce the monthly payments you receive by as much as 30%, but taking these benefits early can help many people retire better and sooner. In fact, here are three reasons why you may want to take your Social Security benefits at age 62, rather than delaying until your full […]
How to create a household budget & set financial goals for 2019
How to create a household budget & set financial goals for 2019 January 5, 2019 By News Team As we begin another year, it’s time to create your financial goals and household budget for 2019. Do you have enough income to live comfortably within your means? What are you saving for or paying off? Are […]
How to manage your money: Best personal finance apps for credit card users
Which budgeting app should you use? Here are the pros and cons of some of the best. There are a lot of apps and tools ready to teach you how to manage money — but which are the best? Some credit card companies have started offering credit card management apps; should you use those, or stick […]
‘Project Cars’ developer is making ‘most powerful console ever’
Slightly Mad Studios has made big claims about the forthcoming ‘Mad Box’. The studio behind hyper-realistic racing game Project Cars is moving into the console business – and it’s making some bold claims. Ian Bell, CEO of Slightly Mad Studios, revealed on Twitter that the company has started work on “The Mad Box”, which promises […]
Amazon’s online Showroom shows you if different furniture goes together
Amazon is leaning further into the home furnishing market with Showroom, a feature on the website and app that lets you place items into a virtual living room and see how well they complement each other. You can tweak the look of the flooring and walls (presumably to make it look a little more like […]
Researchers propose guiding large space telescopes with tiny satellites
In the future, they could be used to stabilize telescopes studying exoplanets. Using the recently retired Kepler space telescope, scientists have confirmed thousands of exoplanets, and as its successor TESS ramps up its search, we’re poised to discover plenty more. But once we find exoplanets, learning more detailed information about them requires larger, more powerful […]
Tesla starts taking Model 3 orders in select European countries
Tesla’s Model 3 design studio is now open for everyone in left-hand drive European countries, and that means it’s now taking orders from the public in those markets. The automaker started displaying the new vehicle in European showrooms in November 2018, hinting at its impending release. While it began taking orders from reservation holders in […]
Dow closes more than 700 points higher as investors cheer jobs data, Powell comments
Job growth beat estimates; unemployment rate rose as labor force expands U.S. stocks staged a major rally to close out the week, more than erasing Thursday’s sharp losses after a better-than-expected jobs report showed employers adding new personnel at a robust pace. Also bolstering sentiment were remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. What are […]
The biggest stock-market winners and losers on the best day for jobs news in 10 months
A surprisingly positive employment report set up the second-largest gain for the Dow since August 2015 Friday was a day of significant gains for U.S. stocks, after the Labor Department’s reported the U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs during December, well above the consensus forecast of a 182,000 increase among economists polled by MarketWatch. The Dow […]