An office sits empty with employees working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Getty Images Should remote workers be taxed? Those who work from home are getting a free ride, argues a new analysis from Deutsche Bank, and the economic ills that have been exposed by the sudden migration …
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The view from a Brooklyn neighborhood on Tuesday. The UBS report gave a mixed picture for New York City real estate. Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic may have triggered the worst global downturn in more than 60 years, but home prices in the world’s biggest cities still have shot higher …
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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE The U.S. economy has kept growing despite a summer spike in coronavirus cases and the end of massive federal aid, but millions of Americans are either being left out or are in danger of being left behind. See full story. Apple’s launch event has one big unknown …
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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE The U.S. economy has kept growing despite a summer spike in coronavirus cases and the end of massive federal aid, but millions of Americans are either being left out or are in danger of being left behind. See full story. Apple’s launch event has one big unknown …
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A century after winning the right to vote and in the midst of a pandemic, female fund managers are outperforming their male colleagues on Wall Street. That is according to a team of equity strategists at Goldman Sachs, who crunched the numbers in honor of 2020, which marks the 100th …
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Beware! Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press The danger of investing in stocks with compelling valuations is that they’re often cheap for a reason. So-called value traps lie everywhere, and in a note to clients on Tuesday, Bank of America strategists led by Savita Subramanian sought to identify them, at least those …
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The stock market continues to buck the steady flow of troubling headlines and gloomy metrics in a stark disconnect with the economy that’s been hotly debated on Wall Street. Read:Jim Cramer urges investors not to be fooled by new highs in the stock market And while it might feel rather …
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The thought must’ve crossed many investors’ minds during the pandemic. Why not just get out of the markets entirely and switch into cash? Fund management giant Vanguard Group looked at the investors who did exactly that, in a study recently published. Now, the Vanguard crowd isn’t exactly that of Robinhood—between …
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The stock market’s ability to shrug off the economic destruction and gloomy coronavirus headlines continues to enrich emboldened bulls and baffle even some of the savviest Wall Street pros. A big dose of reality, however, looms large, if Andrew Lapthorne, the global head of quantitative research at Societe Generale, has …
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