Peathegee Inc Homeowners in New Jersey are getting a little bit of breathing room on their property taxes. Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order permitting municipalities to shift the property tax payment deadline from May 1 to June 1. The Garden State is home to the highest levies on property in the nation, with
Month: April 2020
More than 3.8m Americans filed new claims for jobless benefits last week, bringing the six-week total since the start of the lockdowns to curb the coronavirus pandemic to more than 30m. The number of initial unemployment claims fell from 4.4m the previous week, the US labour department said on Thursday, against expectations of 3.5m. But
Welcome to Traders TV Tuesday and today we have a question from Paul that asks “Do you need to go to school or have a college degree to become a successful stock trader?” Well, Paul if you’re talking about the traditional sense in terms of education which I assume you are, you don’t need to
In the first video of our new series explaining trading terminology, David Jones looks at one of the first things newbies see when they open a real account – leverage. What is it exactly? How does it work? Is there any way to see it in a real environment? All these questions and more are
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, April 26, 2020. Jeena Moon | Reuters As encouraging as the market comeback this month has been, Wall Street has little faith in it. A leveling out of
A United Parcel Service worker delivers packages on April 29, 2020 in New York City. Stephanie Keith | Getty Images Half of the S&P 500 companies have reported earnings for the first quarter and this has been the strangest earnings season imaginable. Consider: Global activity has ground to a halt in some sectors, but
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Twitter (TWTR) – Twitter reported quarterly profit of 11 cents per share, a penny a share above estimates. Revenue and the number of monetizable daily active users beating forecasts as well. Twitter is not giving any guidance for the current quarter or the
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s proposal to reserve two seats for municipal advisors is drawing protest from the broker-dealer community as the MSRB looks to how to reconfigure a possibly shrinking board of directors. In a Wednesday comment letter, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association said reserving two seats gives MAs too much representation
Individuals and businesses earn income—money for providing goods or services or by investing capital in assets like individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Other sources of income include pensions or Social Security. This income may be used to fund day-to-day expenditures and necessities or to spend on things people want rather than need. Income can be divided
The Federal Reserve kept its main interest rate close to zero on Wednesday, as officials weighed the impact of the heavy dose of liquidity and stimulus already delivered to the US economy in the last two months. At the end of a two-day meeting on Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee stopped short of any
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would keep its benchmark interest rate near zero in response to the economic shock from the coronavirus crisis. “The most significant responsibility of the Fed now is to make sure that credit markets continue to function,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com. “Without functioning credit markets, there will be no economic
The U.S. government issues Treasury securities to fund the deficit between the amount of money that it takes in through taxes and other sources, and the amount of money that it spends on defense, welfare programs, and the interest it pays on its current debt. The government’s total debt is around $22 trillion. Roughly three-quarters
Investors should look to sectors that lately have been “completely eviscerated” as the U.S. economy seeks to recover from the coronavirus crisis, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson told CNBC on Tuesday. “We’re bullish overall, and we just think there’s more upside in potentially some of the laggard areas,” Wilson said on “Fast Money.” “That’s not saying anything bad
A woman walks in the rain outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York, April 13, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters I know this sounds strange, but this was a good day for the stock market, even with
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at his news conference following the two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on interest rate policy in Washington, January 29, 2020. Yuri Gripas | Reuters The Fed is not expected to announce any new policy initiatives when its meeting ends Wednesday, but it could provide
Almost all markets across the world have been in turmoil owing to the economic uncertainties brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, and in that regard, the crypto market has been no different. However, one of the major cryptocurrencies to have made a remarkable recovery since hitting its lowest levels in March is Ethereum (ETH), and
The secondary market saw yields rise again by at least five or six basis points. New deals were priced but issuers faced yield concessions. The market isn’t facing 50-basis-point swings, but its footing is still off as participants grapple with the long-term effects of the pandemic. Additionally, the market will potentially see bonds maturing in
President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to remain open, as concerns mount about the food supply chain after the closure of a number of big facilities because of coronavirus outbreaks. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Trump said his team was drafting an order that he would sign “over the next hour
This article lists the top 20 names in the Index, along with their respective ticker symbols, index weighting, market capitalization, and trading price as of April 27, 2020. The S&P 500 Index is market cap weighted. This method divides the market cap of a company by an index’s total market capitalization to determine the weights.
US oil prices fell sharply in volatile trading on Tuesday as concerns over storage capacity prompted fears the American crude benchmark could again plummet into negative territory. The West Texas Intermediate contract for June delivery fell 20 per cent to a low of $10.07 a barrel in early London trading, before regaining some of that
Most of the real estate sector has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but ultra-luxury rentals and sales in the U.S. have remained relatively strong despite the health crisis. Oren Alexander, luxury real estate broker at Douglas Elliman and co-founder of the Alexander Team, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss where the extremely high-end properties
Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at the Sohn conference in New York on May 4, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach said a popular exchange-traded fund is incredibly overvalued given some of the Federal Reserve’s actions to support the economy during coronavirus pandemic. “The LQD looks to be about the most
Dr Pepper soda in the warehouse at the Dr Pepper Snapple Group bottling plant in Louisville, Kentucky, in April 2015. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Keurig Dr Pepper — The beverage company’s stock soared 7% in extended trading after Keurig Dr Pepper reported first-quarter earnings.
A Puerto Rico COVID-19 medical task force recommended the staged opening of the island’s economy. The task force presented its recommendations to Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced, who appointed its members. It said that those areas with the least likely transmission of the virus should be opened first, progressively followed by others with that had higher
In 1983, legendary commodity traders Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt held the turtle experiment to prove that anyone could be taught to trade. Using his own money and trading novices, how did the experiment fare? The Turtle Experiment By the early 1980s, Dennis was widely recognized in the trading world as an overwhelming success. He had turned an initial
US oil prices fell heavily on Monday after the world’s largest oil-backed exchange-traded fund said it would sell all its short-term contracts by the end of the month following pressure from regulators. West Texas Intermediate, the US oil price benchmark, tumbled 27.7 per cent to $12.25 a barrel, following a regulatory filing by the United
In the world of buying and selling stock options, choices are made in regards to which strategy is best when considering a trade. Investors who are bullish can buy a call or sell a put, whereas if they’re bearish, they can buy a put or sell a call. There are many reasons to choose
Signage stands outside the Freddie Mac headquarters in McLean, Virginia, U.S.. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the economic shutdown drags on and job losses mount, more borrowers are opting to delay their monthly mortgage payments through mortgage forbearance plans. The majority are doing it through a program designed to provide relief to
The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries. Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 deaths reported for the
Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really… pressure… and time. Red Redding “The Shawshank Redemption” Pressure. Time. And a big gosh darn supertanker. Apologies for altering one of Morgan Freeman’s most famous lines in movies, but it had to be done to fit the oil drama that’s playing out
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