If you have dividends to generate retirement income, you may want to moderate your expectations. Wells Fargo joined this week’s list of 773 publicly traded companies, 63 of them on the S&P 500, whose dividends are being reduced or suspended. While you may not have seen many changes in income …
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Pedestrian traffic is slowly returning to Brattle Street and Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but small local businesses still suffer from prolonged blockage of the coronavirus. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images EIDL loans The EIDL Advance program, created by the CARES Act, awarded emergency grants to …
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The 2020 coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemics share many similarities, but also diverge on one key point. “A big difference between the Spanish flu and COVID-19 is the age distribution of deaths,” according to Deutsche Bank DB, + 4.40%. “For COVID-19, the elderly have been overwhelmingly the most …
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With mortgage rates at record lows, it is no wonder that many Americans are refinancing their homes. Add to that the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn, and the need to find additional cash or cut expenses becomes even greater. In fact, refinancing requests are 74% higher than a year ago, …
Read More »The United States has recorded at least 120,168 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend of July 4. COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 11,317,637 people worldwide and 2,852,807 in the US as of Sunday, up from 2,732,639 on Thursday by night before the long weekend, …
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