Bitcoin prices were carving out fresh records Wednesday but where the cryptocurrency heads from here is an open question. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, +5.39% hit a record high at $ 51,735.38 earlier in the day, according to CoinDesk and predictions see the world’s No. 1 crypto doubling before year-end, while …
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• U.S. added record 4.2 million COVID-19 cases in November • Osterholm says there’s light at the end of tunnel in form of promising vaccines • Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton tests positive • Vietnam records its first case of local transmission in almost three months The U.S. set a …
Read More »The Tell: Investor turns $100,000 into $2.2 million — now he’s banking on a cruise line to reach his early retirement goals
The buy-and-hold approach to the stock market generally isn’t a celebrated strategy among Reddit’s “Wall Street Bets” bunch, but more than a few glasses are being raised for one member of the meme-making trading community who claims to have made an absolute killing in recent years. IKnowTheCodings, as he goes …
Read More »U.K. government claims mission accomplished in reaching 100,000 coronavirus tests in a day
The U.K. government has reached its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests realized in a day, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock said Friday. “I knew that it was an audacious goal,” he said during the daily pandemic briefing organized by the government. “I can announce that …
Read More »Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks end lower, but book weekly gains, as coronavirus cases break above 100,000
U.S. stocks finished lower Friday, but after a volatile session that saw the Dow recover about half of the day’s losses and even notch a gain for the week as investors watched cases of COVID-19 climb above 100,000 globally while and oil prices tumbled by the most in five years. …
Read More »If these millennials can save $100,000 — how easy is it for you to do it too?
The most fortunate young Americans are ahead of where their older peers were when they were the same age. A sizable number have seen a savings bump in recent years. One quarter of millennials have $ 100,000 or more in savings, up from 16% two years ago, according to Bank …
Read More »Personal Finance Daily: Even flood maps don’t sway Florida coastal residents, and Trump promises 100,000 new ‘high-paying’ auto jobs — here’s why it may not be as simple as that
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Read More »The Moneyist: ‘He owed a lot of back taxes.’ My ex-husband forgot to split a $100,000 investment account — then he died. Can his estate come after me for the money?
Dear Moneyist, I divorced a little over a year ago, and my ex-husband died suddenly. One of our investment accounts was ordered to be split $ 30,000/$ 60,000, as per our divorce agreement. I signed my paperwork, but he never got around to it. Also see: ‘My husband’s kids hate …
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