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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of February 7, 2022. Dirty thirty. The nation’s total debt reached a record $30 trillion in February. Increased federal spending to combat the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic is thought to have contributed to reaching the milestone years earlier than anticipated. The […]
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of January 17, 2022. Overruled. The Supreme Court overturned a Biden administration mandate for Covid-19 testing and vaccines for workers at large businesses. The court decided last week that the rule represented an overreach by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the
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A savings surge caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is reportedly turning into a slump. Median household checking account balances have fallen since the last stimulus payments that went out in the spring of 2021, according to Moody’s Analytics. Over the last few months, as Covid-19 vaccines have rolled out, people have started returning to work
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Check out Stash’s initial public offering (IPO) calendar, which includes public offerings from the past month, as well as offerings expected in the next 15 days. We’ve included companies with a market cap of $500 million or more. These might be available on Stash’s platform once they trade on the stock market.* We’ll update this
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of December 6, 2021. Good for now? Congress reached a budget deal, called a stopgap spending bill, that will keep the government funded through mid-February, 2022. The bill, passed in both the House of Representatives and Senate on December 2, 2021, will maintain
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of November 29, 2021. Variant of concern. News of Omicron, the variant that could potentially evade the Covid-19 vaccine, caused major U.S. indexes to fall between 2.0% and 3.5% on Friday—due to concerns that it may interrupt the current global economic recovery. The
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two of the biggest shopping days of the year, are just around the corner. These are the days immediately following Thanksgiving, when consumers typically do the majority of their holiday shopping. In 2020, holiday shopping arrived while the Covid-19 pandemic was in full swing, and before the widespread rollout of
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of November 22, 2021. Closing its doors. Pharmacy chain CVS will shutter 900 stores over the next three years. Meanwhile, CVS will add health services such as diagnostic testing, mental-health services, and hearing exams at the remaining locations. The company has added dozens
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of November 8, 2021. Ask the audience. Elon Musk sold roughly $5 billion worth of Tesla stock last week, reportedly to cover tax withholdings for stock options. Before doing so, Musk polled Twitter users about whether he should sell 10% of his holdings
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Want to get paid handsomely while being your own boss? Rake in thousands of dollars each week? You don’t even need any skills, and won’t even have to leave your home! If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Plenty of people are still out of work and looking for ways
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of November 8, 2021. Flipping the script. Online real estate platform Zillow announced last week that it will close down its house-flipping business known as Offers, and lay off 25% of its workforce. Zillow used Offers to purchase homes and handle repairs, such
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Check out Stash’s initial public offering (IPO) calendar, which includes public offerings from the past month, as well as offerings expected in the next 15 days. We’ve included companies with a market cap of $500 million or more. These might be available on Stash’s platform once they trade on the stock market.* We’ll update this
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Colder weather is coming, which means it’s time to start thinking about holiday shopping. But shoppers are treading cautiously this year, and they may not be rushing to open their wallets just yet. This holiday season, a whopping 80% of shoppers said they plan to spend the same amount or less than they did in
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of October 25, 2021. Enjoy your stay. Hotel chain Marriott International reportedly collected more than $200 million in potentially deceptive fees from customers over the last ten years. The so-called resort fees came to light last week as part of a lawsuit filed
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of October 18, 2021. I quit. A record 4.3 million people left their jobs in August, 2021, the highest number of “quits” since December 2000, according to the latest data from the Department of Labor. August’s numbers also demonstrated an increase from July
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The debt download. The U.S. Senate passed a bill last week temporarily increasing the debt ceiling by $480 billion, which will allow the country to continue to meet its financial obligations through December 3, 2021. The debt ceiling is a borrowing limit set by Congress that must be increased every few years. The Senate voted
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Check out Stash’s initial public offering (IPO) calendar, which includes public offerings from the past month, as well as offerings expected in the next 15 days. We’ve included companies with a market cap of $500 million or more. These might be available on Stash’s platform once they trade on the stock market.* We’ll update this
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of October 4, 2021. Who’s gonna budge? Congress approved a short-term funding bill to keep the government open through December 3, temporarily avoiding a government shutdown. The bill includes $28.6 billion for communities affected by natural disasters, and $6.3 billion towards the resettlement
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You may have noticed that you’re spending a little more than you usually do at the grocery store. That slight uptick in prices can be explained by inflation. Inflation is the rate at which prices for goods and services increase over a period of time. One way inflation is measured is with something called the
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of September 27, 2021. Debts are due. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reportedly reached out to Wall Street titans last week for help, as she attempts to suspend the debt ceiling, which is the federal government’s borrowing limit. Without the suspension, the federal government
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