Tax season opens on January 27th. The deadline to file 2019 tax returns and pay any tax owed is Wednesday, April 15, 2020 and the IRS expects that more than 150 million individual tax returns will be filed.
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30-year mortgages have fallen from nearly 4.5 percent to 3.6 percent. The slide has prompted another round of the perennial question: is it time to refinance?
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Given the upbeat economic news of late, the big question is: why are so many workers feeling under pressure? The answer is complicated. While there have been wage gains, they are not spread out across every worker, just ask your friendly millennial or career switching Boomer about it.
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The first full week of the New Year was a good reminder that geopolitical risk is alive and well. The events that transpired in the Middle East initially unnerved investors, causing stock and oil markets to gyrate and for gold to reach new seven year highs, but as tensions diminished, the fallout was contained.
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It’s 2020, which means that millions of Americans are resolving to do something different with their lives. I’ll let you deal with your goals around diet and exercise and instead focus on three financial to-dos for 2020.
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Congress delivered retirement savers a last minute gift: the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, which after passing the House in May, was neatly tucked inside a federal government spending bill that the President will sign just before the holiday break. The changes were the biggest in more than a decade.
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If you are seeking interesting books for the holiday season, consider the following options that have stuck with me throughout the year.
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Just two days before the U.S. was set to impose another round of tariffs on China, the world’s two largest economies agreed upon a partial deal.
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Remember way back in August, when economists and investors were gnashing their teeth about a looming recession? For the last three months, economic data have mostly improved, underscored by the just-released boffo November jobs report.
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