Paying off a mortgage is a huge accomplishment for homeowners. flickr Editorial/Getty Images More American households are owning their homes free and clear with the burden of paying a mortgage out of the picture, according to a new data analysis from Zillow, which reveals that 37% of homes in 2017 no longer had mortgages to
A mobile phone open to the web site of credit bureau Equifax, with text on the website reading ‘Equifax Cybersecurity Incident’, providing steps for consumers to take following a security breach in 2017 that affected 143 million Americans. Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images I may have banked $125 Friday by taking less
Twitter posted earnings that beat analyst estimates on the top and bottom lines Friday, helping to boost share prices by about 9%. The rally added more than $2 billion to Twitter’s market cap, bringing it around $32 billion. Here are the key numbers Twitter reported for its second quarter of 2019: Earnings per share: 20
Eric Trump, third from left, and Donald Trump Jr., second from right, talk with guests at the opening of the Trump Golf Links clubhouse, Monday, June 11, 2018, in the Bronx, New York. Mark Lennihan | AP Trump Ferry Point, the Bronx golf course operated by President Donald Trump’s company, lost more than $122,000 in
Five billion dollars. That’s how much Facebook will have to fork over to the government under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. It’s the biggest fine for violating user privacy by a wide margin – 200 times bigger than the previous record, according to the FTC chair. But some are already saying the settlement
Justin Sun Yuchen, founder of Tron and CEO of BitTorrent, speaks during Ifeng Finance Summit at China World Summit Wing on November 4, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Jiang Xin/VCG via Getty Images) Jiang Xin | VCG | Getty Images Who would’ve thought Warren Buffett‘s charity lunch this year would involve kidney stones, a
The Internal Revenue Services offices in Washington, D.C. Adam Jeffery | CNBC If you’ve been trading or mining cryptocurrency, the Internal Revenue Service is about to come knocking. The IRS on Friday announced that it’s sending letters to more than 10,000 taxpayers with virtual currency transactions who have potentially failed to report income and pay
ASSOCIATED PRESS Those who have been peddling the idea that Model 3 demand has peaked saw some vindication in Tesla’s Q2 report. Deliveries hit a record high, but decreased margins seemed to support the argument that Tesla had to cut prices to move their cars. However, Gorden Lam, a Marketocracy manager who has given us the best guidance
Getty Taxpayers who deal – or even dabble – in virtual currency may be on the receiving end of a letter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) this month. The IRS has announced that they have begun sending letters to taxpayers who might have failed to report income and pay the resulting tax from virtual
An aerial shot of Brickell Key, with downtown cityscape. Getty Here’s where the best national deals for Q3 are according to Knock.com’s National Deal Forecast. To predict where the best potential discounts are, Knock uses “machine learning-driven algorithms” valuing customer’s homes to current listings in 45 of the country’s largest MSA’s (Metropolitan Statistical Area). “The