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AsiaVision | E+ | Getty Images Most Americans can file their taxes for free — but many don’t seize the opportunity. Roughly 70% of taxpayers qualify to use IRS Free File, but only 2% used it during the 2022 filing season, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate’s annual report to Congress. A public-private partnership between
Tim Bieber | Photodisc | Getty Images Amid stock market gyrations, recession fears and loftier payouts, consumers last year pumped a record sum of money into annuities, a type of insurance that offers a guaranteed income stream. Buyers funneled $310.6 billion into annuities in 2022, according to estimates published by Limra, an insurance industry trade
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If you ever find yourself taking a meeting with Jeff Bezos, don’t expect the billionaire Amazon founder to speak first. Before Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021, he made a practice of letting his employees speak first. Now, his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez — the founder of Santa Monica, California-based aerial filming company Black
These days, fewer Americans — including millionaires — feel confident about their financial standing. Although the rich are getting richer, 58% of high net worth individuals said they accept that they will have to keep working longer and 36% worry that retirement may not even be an option, according to data from Natixis Investment Managers.
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In this article JPM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cody Mullenaux and his family. Mullenaux was the victim of a sophisticated wire fraud scheme that has resulted in $120,000 being stolen Courtesy: Cody Mullenaux Banks have spent enormous amounts on cybersecurity and fraud detection but what happens when criminal tactics are sophisticated enough to
In this article GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet missed on both top and bottom lines when it reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell Thursday. The company’s stock dropped nearly 4% after hours, erasing some of the 7.28% it gained in normal trading hours. Here’s how the numbers stacked up: Earnings
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple missed expectations for revenue, profit, and sales for many of its lines of business on Thursday, sending the stock lower in extended trading. Apple’s overall sales for the holiday quarter were about 5% lower than last year’s, the first year-over-year sales decline since 2019.