Millions of people who received the first two stimulus checks could watch the third round happen without them — if the House of Representative passes the Senate’s version of a $ 1.9 trillion rescue package with tighter payout rules. But the tax code could supply some people on the cut-off …
Read More »: Eurozone banks are showing life after 15 rough years. Will the ECB snuff out the rally?
It has been a pretty rough 15 years for the eurozone’s leading banks. The bad times have been ghastly — the 2008 financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis, and now, the COVID-19 pandemic. But even the good times haven’t been so great, with lenders in the 27-nation grouping facing a …
Read More »Personal Finance Daily: What to do if your income is just over the threshold for the $1,400 stimulus check and how the ‘nationalization of leases’ could hurt renters amid the pandemic
Happy Tuesday MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: How these teens are having fun in today’s stock market, and, for the most part, making money They have been trading longer than many adults, and are learning valuable lessons about investing early. MarketWatch speaks to four teenagers who are taking on …
Read More »IPO Report: ThredUp IPO: 5 things to know about the secondhand e-commerce site before it goes public
Oakland, Calif.-based online resale company ThredUp Inc. TDUP, has filed its initial public offering prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission after first filing to go public confidentially in January. The company has registered to sell $ 100 million in shares, though that’s likely a placeholder amount as it works …
Read More »The New York Post: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine neutralizes Brazil COVID-19 variant, study shows
The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is able to neutralize a rapidly spreading virus variant from Brazil, according to a new laboratory study. Researchers developed an engineered version of the COVID-19 mutation and found that blood samples taken from people who received the vaccine were able to neutralize the variant, according to the …
Read More »The Moneyist: My wife spent $50K on cosmetic procedures. It horrifies me to see so much money being blown on something so frivolous’
Dear Quentin, Over the past three years, my wife has spent over $ 50,000 on cosmetic procedures. She never used to be a vain person. It started with a face lift after she turned 40, and now she can’t stop blowing money on everything from Botox and lip fillers to …
Read More »The Wall Street Journal: New York City to reopen high schools for in-person learning March 22
New York City public high schools will reopen March 22 for some in-person learning, after more than two months of fully remote instruction for their students. About 55,000 students and 17,000 school staff are expected to return to 488 high schools, the city’s Department of Education said Monday morning. In …
Read More »The Moneyist: My daughter was a TV star and saved $1 million. If she buys a home and moves in with her boyfriend, will he have a claim?
Dear Quentin, My daughter was a TV starlet in her youth, and thanks to the magic of compound investing, has a large amount of cash on hand (approximately $ 1 million). She wants to take some of this money and make the down payment on a co-op or a condominium. …
Read More »The Wall Street Journal: Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle school teacher
MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist formerly married to Jeff Bezos, has married again following her 2019 divorce from the Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.77% founder, according to a person familiar with the matter. Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest women, has married Dan Jewett, a science teacher at a Seattle private school, according to the …
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