Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Cutting taxes on home sales A new bipartisan bill would double the amount of money that homeowners can exclude from their taxes on the profits on the sale of their home, said Aarthi Swaminathan in MarketWatch. “Currently, the legislation…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Cutting taxes on home sales A new bipartisan bill would double the amount of money that homeowners can exclude from their taxes on the profits on the sale of their home, said Aarthi Swaminathan in MarketWatch. “Currently, the legislation…
Debt talks run down to the wire: Does it have to be like this? | View caption Hide caption In recent years, budget measures have been passed largely along party lines, using a congressional loophole to get around the filibuster. Although the budget process still leaves some room for bipartisan negotiating in a divided government, recent…
You may associate TikTok with hours lost to scrolling through short videos of everything from dogs to dance challenges, or perhaps you mainly know it as a topic of contentious debate. Either way, the social media platform has a surprising use case: making money. Many users are leveraging TikTok to bring in cash and believe…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Robinhood’s late-night trading buzz Robinhood has started offering 24-hour weekday trading of popular stocks and ETFs, said Michael P. Regan in Bloomberg Businessweek. The brokerage app announced recently that shares of “43 of the most active U.S. exchange-traded funds…
The legalization of sports betting is generating billions in revenue — and ruining lots of lives. Here’s everything you need to know: How much is being bet? A staggering amount. Last year Americans placed $93.7 billion in game bets, according to the trade publication SportsHandle. In the first three months of 2023, nearly $30 billion…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Robinhood’s late-night trading buzz Robinhood has started offering 24-hour weekday trading of popular stocks and ETFs, said Michael P. Regan in Bloomberg Businessweek. The brokerage app announced recently that shares of “43 of the most active U.S. exchange-traded funds…
A coalition of Republican-led states has accused the nation’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, of discriminating against customers due to their religious beliefs, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. In a letter obtained by the Journal addressed to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, 19 GOP state attorneys general alleged the bank “persistently discriminated against certain customers due to their religious…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: SEC whistleblower payouts explode These days it can pay to be a whistleblower, said The Economist. As of 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $1.3 billion to 328 financial tipsters since 2010 — most of that in…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: SEC whistleblower payouts explode These days it can pay to be a whistleblower, said The Economist. As of 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $1.3 billion to 328 financial tipsters since 2010 — most of that in…