Category: Business

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The Top 20 Cities for the World’s Ultra-Wealthy How many millionaires, centimillionaires, and billionaires live in the world’s wealthiest cities? While such metrics are not all encompassing, these measurements of private wealth do help put the financial health and economic activity of some of the world’s wealthiest cities in perspective. This infographic uses information from […]

Dear Penny, My husband’s parents have always expected their adult children to pay their way for restaurants and vacations, and whenever they need or want something that they don’t want to purchase. My father-in-law says his kids can afford it because they all have better jobs than he had, but he never paid for college […]

You know you’re supposed to buy low and sell high when you invest, so a bear market should be a bargain sale. A bear market is generally defined as a drop of 20% or more from recent stock market highs. The S&P 500, often used as a benchmark for the overall U.S. stock market, has […]

If you’ve had “sit down and do my taxes” on your to-do list for a little while, we’ve been there — tax season is not exactly something to look forward to each year. If anything, it’s something most of us dread, wondering how to put everything together, how the rules have changed since last year, […]

  Free trials are an excellent way to test out products and services before shelling out your hard-earned money. After all, who can resist testing a new streaming service, such as Paramount+ or YouTube TV? But you may not want to keep your subscription once the free trial is over. Trials last for only a […]

Genesis Global Trading, one of crypto’s oldest and most storied institutions, is in dire straits. In November, in the wake of the implosion of the crypto exchange FTX, the company’s lending unit was forced to freeze customer withdrawals—never a good sign. Almost two months later, Genesis is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy. Although Genesis has […]

It’s a cliche to say hindsight is 20/20, but as shortages and supply chain issues continue, it definitely feels valid for shoppers. If only we could go back and tell our pre-pandemic selves to buy extra hand sanitizer and toilet paper. Certainly, some supply chain shortages and issues caused by the pandemic — and, in […]

Dive Brief: Energy and c-store company R.H. Foster Energy has acquired six Leadbetter’s c-stores in Bangor, Holden and Bucksport, Maine, according to an emailed press release. The locations will be rebranded to R.H. Foster’s Freshies c-store banner. Two other Leadbetter’s locations that are not part of the acquisition will continue under their current banner. R.H. […]

Shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk laid off around 50 percent of the company’s staff. On the same day, he tweeted that all those laid off would receive three months of severance pay. But, after two months of waiting for the company to say what kind of severance and benefits will be available, several former Twitter […]