(Reuters) – After becoming Dean of the University of Illinois School of Business in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics as a virus would choke a major source of income for his school: Chinese graduates. Jeffrey Brown, dean of Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, poses at …
Read More »Companies are considering stock splits, according to Tesla and Apple announcements, says expert
After Tesla and Apple announced plans to share their shares within weeks of each other, there has been a growing buzz that more companies with triple and square digits stock prices will follow in their footsteps. “Everyone is talking about it,” Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones …
Read More »‘It’s an enormous decision’: Judge gives a profit to companies claiming insurance cover for lost income due to coronavirus
A group of Kansas and Missouri hair salon and restaurant owners could continue with a lawsuit seeking to pay their insurance company for the income they are missing out on COVID-19 governments for closing government, a judge ruled Wednesday. The companies adequately insisted – to say the least – that …
Read More »Why are some people asymptomatic with coronavirus – and why are they so contagious?
How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 – showing no symptoms yet – and what makes them asymptomatic while other people suffer so terribly from the disease? This study, published this week in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 …
Read More »When does it make sense to take Social Security at age 62?
It’s best to wait until you’re 70 to start receiving Social Security retirement benefits, even if it means tapping your retirement assets deep in a bear market. Why? Because the guaranteed and risk-free increase of 8% per year in the Social Security benefit is an unbeatable deal. And yet, in …
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