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Here's where to get your tax return done for free

Between the government, volunteers and various tax-prep companies, there are a number of ways that taxpayers can file their returns for free.

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Coronavirus could financially cripple many Americans

The unrelenting spread of the coronavirus poses financial challenges for many Americans, who could be hit with large medical bills or face a squeeze in their cash flow.

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BlackRock employee in New York tests positive for coronavirus

BlackRock Inc said on Tuesday a New York employee was diagnosed with the coronavirus, and has been in self-quarantine and working from home since March 4.



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Buy or sell? Investors navigate coronavirus data fog

For money managers, it's bad enough watching the coronavirus wipe trillions of dollars off world markets' value. Even worse is not knowing how bad the outbreak really is for the economy, company balance sheets, and in turn for their portfolios.



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Goldman Sachs is 'very open' to acquisitions: CFO

Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Financial Officer Stephen Scherr said on Tuesday the bank is "very open" to acquisitions that can help the bank fill gaps or help speed up growth of certain businesses.



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FCA Publishes TechSprint Report

The National Law Review | March 6, 2020 On March 3, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a report entitled, “Fostering innovation through collaboration: The evolution of the FCA TechSprint Approach” (the Report). In the Report, the FCA explained that since April 2016 they have been holding TechSprints, which are also known as “Hackathons,”

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European fintech lending industry to hit USD 9.6 billion in 2020

LLB | Staff Reporter | March 3, 2020 Innovative lending services, such as crowd and P2P marketplace loans, are becoming increasingly popular in many European countries. With the development of financial technology, recent years have witnessed a growing number of business customers and private borrowers using these digital financial services. According to data gathered by

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Next six months likely 'painful' for oil, says Goldman Sachs' Jeffrey Currie

As oil prices trade at four-year lows, Goldman Sachs head of commodities research Jeffrey Currie said there's more pain ahead.

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Trump's coronavirus stimulus is still evolving. Here's what it should include, experts say

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will ask Congress for a payroll tax cut and other "very major" stimulus moves on Tuesday to ease the economic pain of the coronavirus, but the details remain unclear.



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Stimulus hopes buoy Wall Street after rout

Wall Street rebounded on Tuesday as investors pinned their hopes on policy easing by major central banks after global markets plummeted in the previous session on fears of a coronavirus-driven recession.



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Coronavirus wipes $70 billion off global listed airlines

The rapid spread of coronavirus has wiped almost a third - or $70 billion - off the world's top 20 listed airlines and reshuffled global rankings, elevating Air China into third place behind U.S. rivals, an analysis by Reuters shows.



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Spread of virus drives Corporate America into cyberspace for annual meetings

More U.S. companies are moving their annual shareholder meetings online to help contain the spread of coronavirus, raising concerns among corporate democracy advocates about investors losing access to top executives and board directors.



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Airline SAS asks employees to take a 20% pay cut

Airline SAS has invited unions to discuss a 20% work and pay cut for all employees as it fights to mitigate the effects of a slump in demand due to the coronavirus outbreak, it said on Tuesday.



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Amid Saudi-Russian oil price war, other OPEC states sound alarm

While OPEC's de facto leader Saudi Arabia trades blows in a war for market share with Russia after their three-year pact to cut oil supplies collapsed last week, other OPEC states are already sounding the alarm over plunging oil prices.



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Trump presses 'pathetic' Fed to cut rates more aggressively

President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed into the U.S. Federal Reserve and its chairman Jerome Powell, calling the institution "pathetic, slow moving" and saying it should bring U.S. interest rates down to the level of "competitor nations."



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