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Dividing up your estate among offspring can be a tricky business. Remember what happened to Shakespeare’s King Lear? However, not having a will is the height of irresponsibility. The task must be faced. There are many situations in which the obvious option—an equal division of assets among children—is the right choice. However, in some families, giving
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Way back in December 2013, many American families experienced a serious holiday letdown: The gifts they had ordered through online retailers, including Amazon, didn’t arrive on time. Crushed by the volume and hampered by bad weather, the shipping companies failed to deliver, literally. Since then, Amazon has spent an estimated $37 billion to fix the
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Traders at the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE The market is churning at record levels as Covid fears ramp up and political uncertainty swirls, but there are still buying opportunities for investors. On Tuesday, Stephanie Link of Hightower Advisors, Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management, investor Pete Najarian and I joined Scott Wapner on
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EOS: An Overview EOS is a blockchain-based, decentralized platform used to develop, host, and run business applications, or dApps. EOS launched In June 2018 after an initial coin offering that raised $4.1 billion in crypto for Block.one, the company that developed the open-source software called EOS.IO that is used on the platform. EOS cryptocurrency tokens
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Close up imagery of the dredging operations underway around the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, captured by the company’s WorldView-3 satellite on Saturday, March 27, 2021. Maxar Technologies Space company Maxar Technologies shares dropped in trading Thursday after it announced another delay to the launch of its next-generation imagery satellites. “We have decided to
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The yield curve depicts the term structures of interest rates for bonds. With term structures that could be normal, inverted, or flat, the shape of a yield curve indicates where future interest rates are headed. You can create a yield curve in Microsoft Excel if you are given the time to maturities of bonds and
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Vanguard signage at a Morningstar Investment Conference. M. Spencer Green | AP Vanguard is offering its employees $1,000 to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the company has confirmed. The asset management giant follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other employers calling on workers to get the coronavirus vaccine amid growing concerns about the fast spread of the
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Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies both produce medicines, but the medicines made by biotechnology companies are derived from living organisms while those made by pharmaceutical companies generally have a chemical basis. The coining of the term biopharma further complicates matters. The term describes companies that are using both biotechnology and chemical sources in their medical research and development
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Robinhood CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev on Thursday defended retail clients that invest in so-called meme stocks, saying the phenomenon is real and gives embattled companies access to capital they otherwise wouldn’t have. “I think it’s a real thing. There’s customers that love these companies, they want them to thrive,” Tenev told CNBC’s Andrew Ross
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The dividend capture strategy is an income-focused stock trading strategy popular with day traders. In contrast to traditional approaches, which center on buying and holding stable dividend-paying stocks to generate a steady income stream, it is an active trading strategy that requires frequent buying and selling of shares, holding them for only a short period
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