This Capital Gains Tax Trap Can Ruin Your Portfolio
Filed under: Investing Nobody wants to pay capital gains tax. It reduces your total return and takes away investing capital that could otherwise grow and multiply over the years. But especially with...
View ArticleWhy Shares of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Got Pinned Today
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleFirst-Time Home-Buyers: How Much Do You Really Need to Save?
Filed under: Investing Singles, couples, families -- at some point almost everyone turns their financial attention to buying a home. But how much do we really need to save the first time out? How much...
View ArticleDo Social Security and Medicare Go Hand in Hand?
Filed under: Investing Millions of Americans use both Social Security and Medicare. But how do the programs affect each other? In the following video from our Social Security Q&A series, Dan...
View ArticleSt. Louis Fed's Bullard Sees Rate Hike Sooner Than Expected
Filed under: InvestingJames Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, may have inadvertently caused a small stir in the markets on Friday. After Janet Yellen has been speaking about...
View ArticleWhat Does Generic Copaxone Mean for Teva, Mylan, and Novartis?
Filed under: Investing Teva Pharmaceuticals recently lost its latest bid to block the FDA from approving generic versions of its blockbuster multiple sclerosis (MS) drug, Copaxone. The drug, which...
View ArticleASCO 2014: Making and Breaking Cancer Drugs
Filed under: Investing As oncology has become the hottest space within pharmaceuticals and biotech, the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is pretty much now the Super Bowl for...
View ArticleHousing Starts Soar 13.2%
Filed under: Investing Housing starts jumped 13.2% for April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,072,000, according to a Commerce Department report (link opens a PDF) released today. After...
View ArticleWeek's Winners and Losers: Netflix Flies, Shutterfly Flubs
Filed under: Company News, JC Penney, Netflix www.shutterfly.com From a struggling department store chain delivering better than expected financial results to a popular photo-printing services provider...
View ArticleAfter Market: A Mixed Bag of Economic Reports Lifts Stocks
Filed under: Earnings, Market News The bulls outran the bears in the final hour of trading Friday, allowing the major stock indexes to snap their two-day losing streaks. Economic data was mixed. The...
View ArticleTo-Do List Not Getting Done? Try Turning It Into a Heroic Quest
Filed under: Investing Basics, Internet, Investing, Planning Keith Bernstein/HBO/AP For years, I've struggled with to-do lists. OmniFocus. Toodledo. Any.do. Producteev. Google's (GOOG) Tasks. You name...
View ArticleSwitzerland's Minimum Wage Could Jump from $0 to $25 an Hour
Filed under: Personal Finance, Labor, Global Economy, Investing Getty Images Is America's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour too low? Too high? How about $10.10 an hour -- the new minimum wage rate that...
View Article12 Purchases You Should Always Negotiate On
Filed under: How to Save Money, SavingBy Abby Hayes Americans typically don't like to haggle. It's just not part of our culture. But not haggling could be costing you lots of money. Even if you don't...
View ArticleFly the 'Allergy-Friendly' Skies: Airline Aims to Ground Allergens
Filed under: Company News, Travel, Airfare Swiss.com By S.Z. Berg Relief is on the way for travelers with food intolerances and allergies. Beginning in May, Swiss International Air Lines is instituting...
View ArticleBest of DailyFinance: The Week in Review (May 12 - 18, 2014)
Filed under: Breaking News Missed out on the week's most popular stories? Our readers were sharing our posts on organic eggs (and whether they're worth the extra money), hackers targeting Google users...
View ArticleThese Enormous Dividends Have Undergone Massive Overhauls in 2014
Filed under: Investing Source: Flickr/Clinton Steeds. Oil and gas master limited partnerships pay enormous distributions to their investors. Atlas Resource Partners , for example, pays a gigantic 11.6%...
View ArticleCan ESPN Go Over the Top?
Filed under: Investing The worldwide leader in sports isn't ditching the cable bundle anytime soon, but ESPN may soon offer some of its content over-the-top. Walt Disney's ESPN is reportedly...
View Article1 Explosive Risk That Could Derail America's Oil Boom
Filed under: Investing Photo credit: Flickr/Roy Luck. Railway operators like Berkshire Hathaway's BNSF, CSX , and Genesee & Wyoming are all profiting from carrying oil from America's oil boom....
View ArticleAs HBO's "Silicon Valley" Concludes Its First Season, a Look at the Real-Life...
Filed under: Investing The first season finale for HBO's Silicon Valley airs tonight with the team competing at TechCrunch Disrupt. Credits: TechCrunch, HBO. Each September in San Francisco, TechCrunch...
View ArticleWhy Is Amazon.com, Inc. Launching a Meager Music Streaming Service?
Filed under: Investing Amazon.com might soon join the increasingly crowded music streaming business. Members of Amazon Prime will reportedly have access to curated music from certain labels. That's a...
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