Here’s some good news on the savings front: retirement account balances hit record highs in Q4 2019, according to Fidelity Investments.
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans report that they are delaying traditional life milestones, like getting married and having children, in order to become more financially secure.
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The economy added a better than expected 225,000 jobs in January and with revisions to the two prior months, the three-month average is 211,000, a strong showing for the eleventh year of an expansion.
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Tensions are escalating over the spread of China’s coronavirus outbreak and how it might dent economic growth. At this point, we simply don’t know the lasting impact, but there is likely to be at least a short-term effect, which could cause ripples that are worth monitoring.
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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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