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Retirees eager to travel should check their Medicare coverage before hitting the road

Whether health services will be covered by your plan depends partly on your destination, as well the specifics of your coverage.

4 years ago

Op-ed: Families should plan to negotiate with colleges for more financial aid due to pandemic

The pandemic has colleges eager to fill their student ranks and therefore more open than usual to negotiate tuition, grant money and aid with eligible families.

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Americans are struggling, but you’d never know it from their credit scores

By most financial measures, Americans are faring well during the coronavirus crisis. But that's not the whole story.

4 years ago

GameStop shares surge, halted multiple times as Reddit favorites rally again

Shares of GameStop climbed on Thursday as heavily-shorted stocks favored by Reddit traders look set for a resurgence.

4 years ago

Canadian researchers develop CBDC digital currency proposal for Bank of Canada

York University | Feb 16, 2021 A proposal submitted to the Bank of Canada by a team of academic researchers from Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto (U of T) on what a central bank digital currency framework could look like in Canada has been selected as one of three proposals to


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Robinhood is still on track for a hot IPO despite the GameStop uproar

Robinhood's ability to navigate the GameStop trading chaos bodes well for its upcoming IPO.

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Robinhood offers blistering retort to 'elitist' criticisms from Munger

Robinhood has fired back at Charlie Munger, who earlier this week said the free-trading app was having a "regrettable" impact.

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Cramer warns the GameStop surge has everybody unrealistically looking for stocks about to triple

CNBC's Jim Cramer questioned "are prices real" on Wall Street anymore, as he exasperatingly tried to explain GameStop's renewed rally.

4 years ago

Square buys 3,319 more Bitcoin at an average price of $51,236 for another $170 million investment

The Verge | Nick Statt | Feb 23, 2021 3,319 coins at an average price of $51,236 per coin Square has just made another colossal investment in bitcoin, more than tripling its last investment in the cryptocurrency with a $170 million purchase of tokens. The digital payments company, which is run by vocal bitcoin advocate


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4 years ago

Stocks just got some new competition from bonds as 10-year rate tops dividend yield

The 10-year Treasury yield jumped 9 basis points to hit a high of 1.49%, rising above the S&P 500's dividend yield of 1.43%.

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The smallest business owners are excited and confused by PPP rules as priority window opens

The mismatched timing of a priority period for the smallest businesses to apply for PPP loans as well as new rules have led to both excitement and confusion.

4 years ago

Why stock investors are starting to really worry about rising bond yields

Fear of inflation is causing investors to speculate the Fed may have to shift policy sooner than expected.

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Some families could get more than $14,000 in new Covid relief. It's looking more and more like universal basic income

New $1,400 stimulus checks and monthly child tax credit payments could result in a big payday for a family of four earning less than $150,000.

4 years ago

Data firm that monitors Reddit says it saw GameStop mentions spiking days ago

Thinknum co-founder Justin Zhen told CNBC that his data firm started to see GameStop mentions spike before shares took off Wednesday.

4 years ago

GameStop shares gain more than 18%, halted multiple times as Reddit favorites swing wildly

Shares of GameStop climbed on Thursday as heavily-shorted stocks favored by Reddit traders look set for a resurgence.

4 years ago