Expecting a Baby? Take These 3 Steps Before the Big Day
Babies don’t just mean you’ll be getting less sleep — they also can shake up your financial life in major ways as you figure out how to pay for the costs of bringing them into the world and caring for them. The last thing new parents need is to try to make tough financial choices […]
Avoid being swept into lower yields
Don’t let your broker sweep your cash yield into the basement. A “sweep” account is a parking place for idle cash in your brokerage account. Cash from interest, dividends and securities sales flows into the sweep account — and that may mean that you have a pile of cash earning paltry interest. Many major brokerage […]
5 Workplace Benefits Today’s Employees Want, but Don’t Have
There are various factors that drive employees to stay at a job rather than leave. Salary is no doubt a big one, but workplace benefits are often an equally important part of the picture. As an employer, it pays to know what benefits workers feel they’re lacking, because if you manage to become one of […]
Watch your credit card rewards pile up with these 5 tips
Just because summer’s approaching doesn’t mean your wallet gets a vacation. From graduation season and Father’s Day to the Fourth of July and back-to-school spending, you’ll likely drop some dollars. Rewards-earning credit cards can help you save on these expenses – but you can also combine those rewards with other money-saving strategies to help you […]
Boeing reportedly left engineers, officials unaware of 737 Max changes
They’d assumed there was more safety tech than there really was. Boeing’s overestimation of the 737 Max’s safety may have been prompted in part by a simple but dangerous problem: many of the people involved weren’t aware of the changes. The New York Times has claimed that some engineers, testers and regulators were unaware Boeing […]
Simpler, air-powered soft robots could help with space exploration
You wouldn’t need complex machinery or wires. Soft robots promise a kinder, gentler approach to automation, but they’re frequently hamstrung by complexity, costs and the need for wires. Thankfully, Harvard researchers have found a way to simplify matters. They’ve developed a softrobot driven by pressurized air that doesn’t need the multiple control systems that frequently […]
Google cloud outage knocks out Gmail, Discord and Snapchat (updated)
Network congestion is part of the problem. No, it’s not just you — many of the internet services you use went down this weekend. Google has reported an outage with its Cloud Platform that made several sites and apps inoperable in some regions on June 2nd (they’re still affected as we write this). Most of them are […]
The North Face gamed Wikipedia to boost Google searches
The company has since apologized for the move. Apparel giant The North Face apparently resorted to some less-than-scrupulous tactics to ensure its gear stood out in search results. The Wikimedia Foundation reported that The North Face and its ad agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made admitted to having “unethically manipulated” Wikipedia for the sake of a […]
Stocks to Watch: Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) Down -1.17%
At close of market on Friday, Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) stock finished trading at -1.17%, bringing the stock price to $101.58 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock price saw a low of $101.43 and a high of $102.13. The company’s stock was traded 11,079 times with a total of 2,037,682 shares traded. Royal […]
Stocks to Watch: Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (TSX:NGT) Up +4.66%
At close of market on Friday, Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (TSX:NGT) stock finished trading at +4.66%, bringing the stock price to $44.65 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock price saw a low of $43.75 and a high of $45.17. The company’s stock was traded 2,220 times with a total of 308,581 shares traded. Newmont Goldcorp […]