Indianapolis, Indiana tops Arch’s most affordable cities list Getty Here’s America’s most affordable cities according to Arch Mortgage Insurance Company. Arch recently crunched the numbers on the five most affordable cities LINK in the country. The results in The Housing and Mortgage Market Review (HaMMR) may surprise you. Included in Arch’s top five cities are
Month: January 2021
Bring it home this Valentine’s Day Jesse Goll on Unsplash 2021 couldn’t be a better year to give a Valentine’s Day or Galantine’s Gift for the home. After all, most of us are still spending far more time at home these days than we did this time last year. It’s very likely our living spaces
A GameStop Corp. store in Rome, Italy, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Alesia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop and other stocks the fund was betting against, according to The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The
Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing regarding Iran-U.S. relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON – A group of 10 Republican senators called on President Joe Biden to consider a smaller, alternative
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about whether spousal benefits are automatic or not, the possibility of receiving spousal benefits after taking retirement benefits at 62 and an unexplained delay in Social Security processing an application. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic
Imagine opening your door to an IRS Agent flashing a badge from the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS. Now imagine that the IRS Agent turns out to be a crook. If it sounds far-fetched, read the indictment of Bryan Cho who was arrested and charged with a whole bundle of serious crimes. If he
Mortgage interest rates nudged lower this past week getty When 2021 began interest rates tumbled once more to the lowest they had ever been–down to 2.65%. They spent a few weeks nudging upward, but now they have started to come back down again. After reaching a high of 2.79% mid-January they closed out last week
Home ownership has long been considered a staple of the American dream. During the pandemic, it has also become a dividing line between the haves and have-nots. As the coronavirus outbreak and rise of remote work pushed Americans to move from the city to the suburbs, those who could afford a single-family home have been
A 401(K) rollover doesn’t have to stressfull. Here are ten 401(k) Rollover mistakes you need to … [+] avoid. getty Mistakes when rolling over your old 401(k) can be quite costly and annoying. Sadly, these mistakes are also quite common. On a happier note, these 401(k) rollover mistakes are easy to avoid. First off, not
Johnson & Johnson products on a shelf in a store in New York. Lucas Jackson | Reuters It was a busy week for Wall Street. Heavyweights like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Boeing and Tesla, among others, stepped up to report their earnings for the most recent quarter. However, some analysts and strategists were more focused on
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan holds a press conference to address COVID-19 concerns in Annapolis, MD on November 17. Bill O’Leary | The Washington Post | Getty Images Maryland has reported a case of the new, highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first found in South Africa, marking the third case to be detected in the U.S., Gov.
The SEC should be looking at how state pensions have allowed hedge funds and other alternative … [+] investment managers to gamble state pension assets in secrecy. © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP The nation has been captivated by revelations of millions of amateur traders collectively through social media and online trading platforms taking on Wall
The Robinhood application on a smartphone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Online broker Robinhood said that it put temporary buying restrictions on a small number of securities because central Wall Street clearinghouse-mandated deposit requirements for equities increased tenfold. The decision by Robinhood, a free-trading pioneer and app that’s popular among small investors, drew scrutiny
Stimulus checks printed at the Philadelphia Financial Center in Philadelphia. Jeff Fusco | Getty Images Many Americans are waiting for their second stimulus check and others want to know when they could possibly get a third payment. The $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan pushed by President Joe Biden includes a third round of $1,400 stimulus
Steven A. Cohen Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Steve Cohen, the founder of hedge fund Point72 and owner of the New York Mets, has deactivated his Twitter account after his family received threats this week amid the GameStop trading frenzy. “I’ve really enjoyed the back and forth with Mets fans on Twitter which
Interest Payable from an old bond from 1937. getty Investors are trying to navigate through a treacherous strait in the market, with bonds generating near-zero income yields on one side and stocks with increasing volatility on the other side. With good reasons to assume that the Federal Reserve will continue to buy Treasury bonds at
UNITED STATES – AUGUST 27: The U.S. Capitol dome is seen at dawn on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (Photo … [+] By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images State and local governments have been turning to a potentially dicey borrowing tactic to support their budgets as the coronavirus
If you’re the type of eager beaver who likes to get your taxes done early every year, you’ll have to wait a bit longer than usual to file your 2020 return — until well after Groundhog Day, in fact. The IRS recently announced that it won’t begin accepting returns until February 12, which is 16
As department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue try to get shoppers back into stores after the Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns, the shift to online sales may continue to accelerate thanks to personalization technology. Richard Lautens | Toronto Star | Getty Images Personal shopping services once reserved for the wealthiest consumers are becoming increasingly popular amid the
The headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C. JHVEPhoto | iStock Editorial | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to become a more aggressive consumer watchdog under the Biden administration and while the coronavirus pandemic hurls financial challenges at millions of Americans. Consumer advocates say the bureau was almost
GameStop mania took Wall Street by storm, thanks to a legion of retail traders glued to the WallStreetBets message board on Reddit. Shares of the struggling brick-and-mortar video game retailer skyrocketed 400% in the past week, closing out January with a whopping 1,625% gain. A band of amateur traders in WallStreetBets forum, whose members have
An employee works inside an Office Depot Inc. Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: ODP Corp. (ODP) ODP Corp. is a provider of business services, products and digital workplace technology solutions to small and medium businesses. The company has a fully integrated business-to-business distribution platform of approximately 1,300 stores and online presence. The
Andrew Left, founder and CEO of Citron Research Adam Jeffery | CNBC Citron Research, which was forced to close out its short position in GameStop amid a frenzy in retail buying, said Friday it will no longer publish short reports and instead will focus on long positions. “After 20 years of publishing Citron will no
Small investors outsmarted the smart money, and the war between the Reddit traders and hedge funds seems to have made an indelible mark on Wall Street. Big investors or hedge funds, who hold short positions in individual stocks, saw some of these positions come under siege from a large cohort of small investors, many of
Miami’s hot real estate market continues getty Miami’s luxury hot luxury real estate market shows no signs of cooling down. Everyday boldface names in the media announce they are moving to Miami. From out of favor politicians to film stars to mid-list celebrities to Wall Street billionaires Miami is the current must-have address. According
Johnson & Johnson board member Dr. Mark McClellan told CNBC Friday that there could be enough vaccinations for the entire U.S. adult population by the summer. “Assuming all of the close review of the J&J data all pans out, we’re going to have the capacity between Moderna, Pfizer, J&J, to have enough vaccines available by
The Robinhood website home screen on a smartphone. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Restrictions on Robinhood traders are still tight and getting tighter throughout the day on Friday, now only allowing GameStop holders to buy a single additional share. The stock trading app has also expanded its list of restricted stocks from 13
People walk past a GameStop store in Midtown Manhattan on January 27, 2021 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The astronomical rally in GameStop has imposed huge losses of nearly $20 billion for short sellers this month, but they are not budging. Short-selling hedge funds have suffered a mark-to-market loss of
The modern live-work residence was designed and built for Faiya Fredman, the late artist who was a … [+] pillar of San Diego’s contemporary art scene. Lucas Parodi | Willis Allen Real Estate Designed by a celebrated modernist for a titan of San Diego’s art scene, it’s no surprise that this modern residence off the
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday complimented the retail traders who helped spark the massive run up in GameStop shares, but advised they take their profits now. “Take the home run. Don’t go for the grand slam. Take the home run. You’ve already won. You’ve won the game. You’re done,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the
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