Month: August 2023

When Barbara Corcoran started her real estate firm at age 23, she quickly noticed a difference between herself and her competitors. “I realized that everyone successful looked the part,” Corcoran, now a 74-year-old millionaire investor, said in a recent TikTok video. “At the time, I was still wearing my old navy blue pea coat from
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Getty Images For students and their families, this could be the most expensive back-to-school season to date. This year’s total back-to-school spending, including for college students, is expected to reach a record $41.5 billion, up from $36.9 billion last year and the previous high of $37.1 billion in 2021, according to the National Retail Federation. Families
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In this article ADYEN-NL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Adyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization . Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Spirits were high when Dutch payments firm Adyen floated on the Amsterdam Stock
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In this article 2007-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The headquarters of China’s developer Country Garden Holdings in Foshan, in China’s southern Guangdong province. STR | AFP | Getty Images Chinese real estate company Country Garden Holdings is set to be removed from Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index on Sept. 4. The decision comes after the benchmark’s latest
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In this article MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nikos Pekiaridis | Lightrocket | Getty Images Moderna’s new Covid vaccine generated a robust immune response against the now-dominant Eris variant and another rapidly spreading strain of the virus in an early clinical trial, the biotech company said Thursday.  The updated shot is designed to
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In this article BLMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Outback Steakhouse truck sits parked outside a restaurant in New York. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin’ Brands rose 9% in premarket trading Friday after an activist investor disclosed its interest in the restaurant company. Starboard Value
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Getty Images As the year-end approaches, there’s been debate around tax reporting for business transactions on payment apps such as Venmo and PayPal, along with e-commerce companies, such as eBay, Etsy and Poshmark. Some lawmakers are pushing to increase the IRS reporting threshold for Form 1099-K, which covers third-party business payments. Taxpayers who use a payment app to process
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