April 18th, 20181146Don't worry — you still have until the end of the day to file those 2017 tax returns.
The Internal Revenue Service announced late Tuesday it would allow taxpayers to submit their returns without penalty through Wednesday, according to media reports. The announcement came after e-filing experienced technical difficulties all day...
April 17th, 20184124In 1992, Vicki Robin and her partners Joe Dominguez wrote a book that turned traditional personal finance advice on its metaphorical head. Instead of changing your money to pay for the lifestyle you want, the two suggested living a minimalist lifestyle to more quickly achieve "financial independence" — a state where working is optional...
April 13th, 20181128Wells Fargo & Co may need to pay $1 billion in penalties to resolve probes into auto insurance and mortgage lending abuses at the third largest U.S. bank, according to a Reuters article.
Two U.S. regulators proposed the penalties earlier in the week. Analysts indicated that the $1 billion penalty wouldn't make a significant dent...
April 9th, 20180116China blamed the United States on Monday for tensions over trade between the two nations, according to a Reuters article.
China's comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that China would take down trade barriers. He also expressed optimism that both sides could resolve the issue through talks. But China's Foreign...
March 29th, 20180106U.S. Consumer spending rose for the second straight month in February, according to a Reuters article.
Data released by the Commerce Department Thursday showed consumer spending, which reportedly accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. econonmic activity, increased 0.2 percent last month after a similar gain in January. That gain...
March 27th, 20180109As fears of a trade war between the United States and China have eased, U.S. stocks have climbed higher, according to Reuters.
The main indexes finished the day up more than 2 percent after reports that the United States and china were willing to renegotiate tariffs and trade imbalances on Monday. The markets originally became...
March 19th, 20180128Facebook Inc's shares slid more than 4 percent in premarket trading after media outlets reported a political consultancy firm gained inappropriate access to data on 50 million users, according to a Reuters report.
The firm, Cambridge Analytica, reportedly had ties to President Donald Trump's political campaign.
According to...
March 13th, 20182146President Donald Trump has been talking to media personality Larry Kudlow about replacing Gary Cohn as director of the White House's National Economic Council, according to a Washington Post article.
The Post reported that Trump spoke to the longtime CNBC commentator twice about succeeding Cohn in recent days.
"Kudlow is now...
March 12th, 20183111A strong U.S. jobs report last week helped world stocks surge to a two-week high Monday, according to a Reuters article.
>>Related: U.S. added 313,000 jobs in February<<
Reuters reported that European and Asian shares shot up across the board in response to Friday's report, which showed that the U.S. has added...