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Gifts to charity are one of the best tax-saving opportunities available. Not only does the charity benefit, but taxpayers enjoy tax savings by deducting part or all of their contributions on their tax returns. For 2021, special rules extend and expand the generous tax treatment for qualifying cash contributions previously allowed nonitemizers in 2020. Nonitemizers

What Is High-Frequency Trading (HFT)? For a time, it looked as if high-frequency trading (HFT) would take over the market completely. According to global investment firm Franklin Templeton in 2019, HFT has accounted for approximately “half of U.S. stock market trading volume on an annual basis since the global financial crisis (GFC) a decade ago.” This

A KKR logo is displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), August 23, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Trading stocks in the capital markets in 2021 has not been an endeavor for the faint of heart.   The year could be characterized by exciting events like a powerful influx of retail

Coupons can drive customers to your business. In today’s world, 96% of consumers have used a coupon in the past 90 days. JC Penney tried to break consumers of the coupon habit in 2012 and quickly saw a 23% drop in sales for the first three quarters of 2012. If JC Penney couldn’t change people’s

The rising cost of a college degree has more students than ever borrowing to cover their expenses. While some students opt for loans from private lenders, as of March 2021, an estimated 42.9 million borrowers have Federal Direct Loans. Subsidized vs. Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans may be subsidized or unsubsidized. Both types offer numerous benefits,

Although cryptocurrencies have been in existence for nearly a decade, it is only in the recent past that they have come to dominate conversations among investors. Digital currencies have experienced a boom in interest and value previously unseen in the area. Now, hundreds of cryptocurrencies have followed in the footsteps of early leaders like Bitcoin (BTC),

James “Jimmy” Cayne, the swaggering bridge-champion Wall Street CEO who led investment bank Bear Stearns during its rise and ultimate fall that would serve as a touchstone for the financial crisis of 2008, has died at age 87. Cayne died Tuesday days after suffering a stroke, according to a report in Bloomberg. One of the

A new exchange is trying to make it easier to hedge against events in politics and other areas. Kalshi, a firm founded by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, was designated as a contract market by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in late 2020 and officially launched in June. The exchanges offers binary, yes-or-no contracts

If you’ve reached the point where you’re financially stable, helping your parents get a new home may seem like a dream come true. But it’s also a decision that’s more complicated and riskier than you may realize. There are a number of ways in which adult children can assist their parents with a new home

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on December 02, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images It’s time for my best guesses for next year: 2022 is a year to go big and bold, because a boom is coming. Not a boom in everything, but certainly a

Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship on November 22, 2021 in Bayonne, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Morgan Stanley said most acute supply chain disruptions are already easing and will be more fully resolved within the first half of 2022.  That’s the base case the investment bank laid out in a recent

Fidelity and Robinhood are fundamentally different in that Fidelity is an established, full service brokerage firm and Robinhood is a newer player that has received a lot of publicity, both good and bad. Fidelity was founded in 1946 and has evolved into a significant force in the online brokerage space. Robinhood was founded in 2013

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Farr, Miller & Washington is a “buy-to-hold” investment manager, which means we make each investment with the intent to hold the position for a period of

China was once the Bitcoin trading and mining capital of the world. However, the country’s leadership struggled for several years to find ways to control cryptocurrency’s spreading popularity and keep it from devaluing and replacing its fiat currency. As a result, China’s government finally banned non-government-approved cryptocurrencies in September 2021. Here’s a quick rundown of

In this article GDDY Spencer Platt | Getty Images Activist investor Starboard Value has taken a 6.5% stake in GoDaddy, sparking a rally in shares of the web services company. The hedge fund bought more than 10,000 shares of GoDaddy, worth about $800 million, according to a regulatory filing. The new stake became the biggest

An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit is a review of an individual’s accounts and financial information to ensure that the information they provided when they filed their income taxes was reported correctly and to verify if the reported amount of tax is correct. If you are audited by the IRS and they determine that your tax return

If you’ve been diligently saving for retirement through your employer’s 401(k) plan, you may be able to convert those savings into a Roth 401(k) and gain some added tax advantages. Key Takeaways Many companies have added a Roth option to their 401(k) plans. Traditional 401(k)s and Roth 401(k)s are taxed differently; traditional ones use pre-tax

Pullbacks, in terms of technical analysis, generate all sorts of trading opportunities after an active trend thrusts higher or lower, but profiting with this classic strategy is harder than it looks. For starters, the security you just bought on the dips or sold short into resistance can keep on going, forcing your position into a sizable loss,

In this article MON Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies have had yet another wild year. Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital asset, has seen a roughly 65% gain since January — with some

In this article NKLA San Pedro, CA – December 17: The first two zero-emissions electric trucks, from an order of 100 vehicles, delivered from the Nikola Corporation to Total Transportation Services at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro on Friday, December 17, 2021. Brittany Murray | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Nikola shares jumped