Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance Here’s a ray of hope for people worried they missed a valuable tax break on jobless benefits by filing too soon Though jobless benefits count as taxable income, one part of the sprawling law says the first $ 10,200 of …
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The post-recession tech boom in San Francisco appears to be reaching some form of an ending. Thank goodness. Amid much discussion about a potential tech exodus, recent data shows that, writ large, people are not moving away from Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. They are moving out of San …
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The COVID-19 economy has been brutal for millions of people who have been directly affected, through illness and loss of family members and friends, but also though lost jobs, destroyed businesses and disrupted careers. The stock market has been a different story: Unprecedented stimulus efforts of the federal government and …
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Dear Moneyist, For 10 years, my wife and I saved up and, in 2018, purchased our first home before we hit the age of 30. Over the last two years, events have not gone in our favor, especially with COVID-19. In March, I had to have gallstone surgery, and that’s …
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The 2020 U.S. presidential election has been a nail-biter, so it’s understandable if many folks were glued to Electoral College maps and races that were “too early to call” for incumbent President Donald Trump or his Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Election Night. There was still no clear winner for …
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Crude-oil prices climbed on Thursday after a report that major producers at a an OPEC-led meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee, or JMMC, planned to make up for failing to fully meet their production-cut targets last month. The JMMC, which monitors compliance with OPEC output quotas, held gathering via …
Read More »More than 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment over the last few weeks as the effects of COVID-19 continue to spread. Global cases have now topped one million with the United States seeing 1,000 deaths in one day due to the virus. The ongoing issues with the spread of …
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