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Does your health insurance come with deductibles in the four figures? If so, you’re probably eligible to establish a Health Savings Account (HSA). Used in combination with a High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), funds deposited in a HSA can go towards paying medical bills until the plan’s deductible is met and your healthcare coverage goes into effect. HSAs
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Thinking about becoming a real estate agent? You’re in good company. Every month, about 17,000 people in the U.S. Google “how to become a real estate agent,” as they consider joining the nation’s estimated 3 million active real estate licensees. Key Takeaways You can become a real estate agent in about four to six months,
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Blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, could actually change the way we manage 401(k)s. Pundits claim blockchain represents the biggest breakthrough since the internet, with the potential to improve just about everything in our lives, including our health and bank balance. Here’s how it might also increase the amount of money we have
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The First Company to Issue Stock The Dutch East India Co. holds the distinction of being the first company to offer equity shares of its business to the public, effectively conducting the world’s first initial public offering (IPO). It also played an integral role in modern history’s first stock market crash. Often referred to by the
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Traders on the floor of the NYSE, June 29, 2022. Source: NYSE (Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) A majority of Wall Street investors believe the market stands pretty much dead in the water for the rest of 2022 and, as a result, think it’s time to buy dividend-paying stocks, according to the
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Bond prices are worth watching from day to day as a useful indicator of the direction of interest rates and, more generally, future economic activity. Not incidentally, they’re an important component of a well-managed and diversified investment portfolio. Everybody knows that high-quality bonds are a relatively safe investment. But far fewer understand how bond prices
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Student loan providers are the groups or organizations that finance a student’s education on the condition that they will be repaid at a later date. Approximately 43 million Americans held federal student loan debt in 2019. These compose the vast majority of student loans. Private loans can make up the difference when federal aid fails
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What Is Venmo? Venmo started out as a free-of-charge peer-to-peer (P2P) payment app available for iPhones and Android phones. That service is still free, as is using Venmo to pay participating merchants, who now number in the millions. Some other services carry a fee. Payments that go through a credit card account rather than a
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Foreclosure is the process that allows a lender to recover the amount owed on a defaulted loan by selling or taking ownership of the property. Although the foreclosure process varies by state, there are six common phases of a foreclosure procedure. Key Takeaways Foreclosure occurs when a lender seeks to seize the property used as
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