Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at COP 24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Katowice, Poland on 5 December, 2018. Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Investing for climate change had been a niche on Wall Street, often generating sub-par returns, but in the coming
Getty Images It’s never too early to resolve to save more for retirement and trim your tax bill. The IRS has made inflation adjustments to a range of key figures, from the amount you can put in a 401(k) retirement plan at work to the individual income tax brackets that help you determine your tax
Bond prices are sensitive to interest rate changes, and bond duration is a measure of just how sensitive. For instance, in Exhibit 1.1 (shown in my last article), an increase in interest rates for the simple bond from 3 percent to 4 percent caused the bond’s price to fall by 8.1 percent. This bond has
PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 26: In this photo illustration, the microblogging social network Twitter … [+] logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone on December 26, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Getty Images There was a lot of tax talk in 2019 – especially on social media. From Bitcoin to
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Miami Skyline with palm trees Getty Art is fast becoming Miami’s must-have amenity in luxury real estate. Miami developers and real estate agents are targeting art collectors as buyers for their new oceanfront condominium towers and multi-million dollar homes. It’s not surprising Miami is home
Defensive back Rashad Fenton #27 of the Kansas City Chiefs and teammates celebrate an interception in front of a television cameraman in the fourth quarter of the game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Estadio Azteca on November 18, 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico. Manuel Velasquez | Getty Images The National Football League is celebrating
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc. Getty Images Apple stock is on pace to close out a year of explosive growth, and another key metric has reached a historic high, too. Apple’s trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio steadily climbed this year alongside its stock price. Apple began the year with a trailing P/E ratio just over
As we get ready to say goodbye to the 2010s, CNBC.com is taking a look back at the key players, events and transformations from Wall Street to Silicon Valley to corporate America to the White House that shaped a “Decade of Disruption.” In the lead-up to New Year’s Day 2020, CNBC’s online journalists will be
Just months after almost everyone on Wall Street worried that a recession was just around the corner, Goldman Sachs said a downturn is unlikely over the next several years. In fact, the firm’s economists stopped just short of saying that the U.S. economy is recession-proof. Investors could be excused for getting a little nervous over
A sign displayed on Bruckner Building reads ‘Commercial Space Available’ in the Port Morris neighborhood of the Bronx borough of New York. For a limited time, investors who develop real estate or fund businesses in opportunity zones are able to defer capital gains on profits earned elsewhere and completely eliminate them on new investments in