Weekly Market Review – October 10, 2019
Stock Markets U.S. stocks and the global group all rose this week buoyed by optimism that Chinese and U.S. officials had made real progress in negotiations late in the week. They expect that the groundwork for a truce on additional tariffs will allay further volatility. There were also positive comments from leaders on the Brexit […]
How to save for retirement while helping family with finances
A recent survey showed more than half of U.S. investors have provided or currently provide financial assistance, personal assistance or both to their adult children or extended family members — and that’s excluding tuition payments. So how does one save for retirement while helping out the family financially? The regional president of Wells Fargo Advisors’ Northern Region Mary Sumners […]
Only 1 in 5 Americans Achieves This Impressive Feat
The financially organized person has many hallmarks, including holding little to no debt (or at least a sound strategy to pay down any debt), having a monthly budget, and working actively toward clear financial goals. One of the signs of the truly elite financial managers among us is consistently maxing out one’s retirement accounts every […]
Here’s Why Higher Earners Will Pay More Taxes in 2020
Social Security is funded by payroll taxes, and all workers are subject to them up to a certain limit. That limit can change from year to year to reflect overall wage growth, and in 2020, higher earners can expect to have more Social Security taxes taken from their paychecks. How Social Security taxes work The […]
Leave Your High-Yield Savings Account Alone
“What goes up must come down” isn’t just how gravity works—unfortunately, it also applies to the United States economy. It can’t be bull markets and rainbows all the time, sadly. If you’re someone who got excited about high yield savings account interest rates that were inching above the 2% mark until just a few months […]
Netflix ends support for some older Roku players on December 1st
You’ll want to upgrade to keep streaming. Are you still hanging on to an early Roku player to stream Netflix in the basement? You’ll need to upgrade soon. Netflix has warned that it’s ending support for some of Roku’s oldest players after December 1st, including the Roku HD, HD-XR, SD, XD and XDS as well […]
The follow-up to ‘Band of Brothers’ is coming to Apple TV+
After trying to adapt ‘Masters of the Air’ with HBO, Steven Spielberg turns to Apple for help. Just one day after signing Alfonso Cuarón to a multi-year deal, Apple has scored another coup for its upcoming Apple TV+ streaming service. Variety reports the company will produce Masters of the Air, the follow-up to 2001’s Band […]
Apple adds five new Arcade games as its free trial draws to a close
Roughly a week left to binge for free. Not sure what to make of Apple Arcade, the company’s $5 a month gaming service? It didn’t really matter, as the service landed in September (or earlier if you were on the beta) with a free month trial on iOS and iPadOS and MacOS. But it’s a […]
Google bans predatory payday loan apps from the Play Store
It’s trying to prevent exploitative behavior, but companies aren’t happy. Google has fought predatory loans for a while, but now it’s taking that fight to its app store. The Wall Street Journal has learned that Google recently banned Play Store apps with “deceptive or harmful” personal loans where the annual percentage rate is 36 percent […]
Stocks to Watch: Chevron Corporation (CVX) Closes 1.36% Up
Shares of Chevron Corporation (CVX) ended the trading day at $116.15, representing a move of 1.36%, or $1.56 per share, on volume of 5.13 million shares. Chevron is an integrated energy company with exploration, production, and refining operations worldwide. Chevron is the second-largest oil company in the United States with production of 2.9 million of […]