I'm administrator of my sister's estate. Her bank won't tell me the names of her beneficiaries. Is that legal?
My younger sister and I have been appointed as co-administrators of our older sister's estate. I have the legal documents and certificate of death in my possession and have taken them to the brokerage ...
As the S&P 500 crashes, this new retiree says advisers are 'head-in-the-sand clueless'
If you're a new retiree and have at least a 50-50 portfolio, or maybe even more conservative than that, then your bottom line is not the big red number flashing next to the S&P 500 SPX or Dow Jones ...
Trump's tariffs brought carnage to U.S. stocks. What it will take to stop it.
Trump outlined sweeping plans on Wednesday to apply a minimum 10% tariff on imports to the U.S., with higher rates applied to China and European Union members. China hit back Friday with a 34% ...
Aiming to ‘Die with Zero’? Here Are the Implications for Portfolio Construction and Retirement Spending
On this episode of The Long View, Dr. Jay Zigmont, author and founder and CEO of Childfree Wealth, breaks down how childfree people can plan their finances and key takeaways from his new book, The ...
My mother, 81, is a hoarder and lives in squalor. What happens if her condo board finds out?
What if the management company ever had to access her unit?' My 81-year-old mother lives one mile away from me. I have not been inside her house for probably a year or more. She doesn't want me in ...
First-quarter earnings will be all about tariffs and the economic outlook. But are forecasts worth anything?
As for first-quarter earnings forecasts, Wall Street still expects per-share profit from S&P 500 SPX companies to increase 7% year over year, according to a FactSet report on Friday. That would be the ...
Is a recession looming? Big banks' earnings could be an early indicator of financial strain.
Banks will kick off the first-quarter earnings season next week - and investors will be on edge JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co. and Morgan Stanley will kick off the first-quarter earnings ...
My brother took control of our late mother's estate - and gave me a measly $1,500 check. What can I do?
When my mother passed away, my younger brother, who lived with her, took care of her estate. She was always helping him with his bills. He was not forthcoming with me and our two older sisters. We did ...
'I'm looking to buy what I hope is my final home': Will Trump's trade war lead to a fall in house prices?
Economists and consumers are, naturally perhaps, upping their own predictions of whether there will be a recession on the back of Trump's trade war. Polymarket, the U.S.-based crypto-based prediction ...
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Open warfare has broken out between Trump and Fed Chair Powell. The stock market is in the crossfire.
As if investors didn't have enough to worry about, they can now add an open breach between President Donald Trump and the chair of the Federal Reserve during an economic crisis and a financial ...
If the market doomsayers are right, stocks will be higher in the next few weeks
The last time that HSNSI was as low as it is now was in late October 2023, as shown in the chart below. The S&P 500 over the next month gained 10%, and 19.1% over the next three months.
Warren Buffett's bet on BYD keeps paying off as Tesla car sales plunge
Margins matter too. BYD's gross margins of 20.6% don't just outpace Tesla; they surpass BMW (XE:BMW), Mercedes-Benz (XE:MBG), and Toyota (JP:7203) (TM). Yet BYD's market cap sits at just one-fifth of ...