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Working hard to advance your career can be great, but not if it comes at the cost of your mental health. That’s why, for many, hearing the recent news that tennis champion Naomi Osaka and gold-medal Olympic gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from their respective sporting competitions this summer may be a reason to pause and […]
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of August 2, 2021. Spending and mending. Fueled by a rebound in consumer spending, the U.S. economy grew by 1.6% in the second quarter of 2021, compared to an increase of 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021. On an annualized basis, the
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of July 26, 2021. A shot at the big time. Last week, biotechnology company and Covid-19 vaccine producer Moderna joined the S&P 500, one of the world’s best known indexes, which tracks the performance of the 500 biggest companies in the U.S. Moderna’s
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of July 19, 2021. Alzheimer’s drug debate. Three major U.S. hospitals—The Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai in New York, and Providence in Renton, Washington—said they would not administer Aduhelm, the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug from biotechnology company Biogen. Meanwhile, healthcare providers, including Medicare, are
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You may have heard some talk about inflation recently – or maybe you just took a look at used car prices. Either way, there’s no denying the fact that inflation is becoming a hot topic around the country. But is all this concern over inflation justified? If so, what’s causing it? More importantly, what can
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of July 12, 2021. Starstruck. The billionaire space race took another leap forward on Sunday as entrepreneur and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson flew to the edge of space and back. Taking off from New Mexico’s Spaceport America, it was the first time
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Starting July 15, 2021 most families will be eligible for monthly, per child payments from the federal government. The extra money comes to them from the American Rescue Plan, and is an expansion of something called the child tax credit. (Read more about the tax credit here.) How can I claim my money? Most people
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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 July 6, 2021. Au Revoir Amazon. Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon, officially stepped down from his role as chief executive officer on Monday, July 5. Andy Jassy, who previously led Amazon’s cloud business known as Amazon Web
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Many parents will soon be eligible for extra federal money for their kids, thanks to an expansion of something called the child tax credit. And nearly two thirds of U.S. parents say that the additional money will be essential to supporting their families. That’s according to a May 2021 survey¹ from Stash on the changes
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Lola Méndez, a frequent traveler who visited 64 countries in five years, had been grounded by Covid-19 for 14 months. Now comfortable with resuming travel, she chose her first post-pandemic trip very carefully. “I’m fully vaccinated… and decided to go to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as it’s the ‘queer capital of Mexico,’” says Méndez, a 31-year-old
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of June 28, 2021. The rubber hits the road. President Biden announced last week that the administration had reached a deal with bipartisan lawmakers over an infrastructure plan. The proposed $579 billion bill would allocate $312 billion for transportation, $15 billion for electric
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A tax credit created in 1997 is getting an upgrade, which will send more federal money to help the majority of American families. Starting July 15, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will increase the child tax credit for children below six-years-old to $3,600 and for children between six and 17 to $3,000 from its
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of June 21, 2021. Federal forgiveness. The U.S. Department of Education recently approved $500 million in student loan forgiveness for former students of ITT Technical Institute, a private chain of colleges that was shut down in 2016 for misrepresentation. Due to a legal
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of June 7, 2021. Way out there. Amazon founder and multi billionaire Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will be among the first passengers on Blue Origin’s first-ever human launch in July, 2021. Blue Origins is Bezos’s space exploration company. The brothers will
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of June 1, 2021. Amazon bags a lion. In a big shakeup for Hollywood, Amazon announced last week that it plans to acquire famed film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) for $8.45 billion. Through the proposed deal, Amazon would acquire a library
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of May 17, 2021. A new media giant. AT&T announced Monday it will merge its WarnerMedia unit with Discovery Inc. in a cash and debt deal reportedly worth $43 billion.The combined companies will create a new streaming service giant, reportedly bigger than either
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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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It seems like every celebrity has a lifestyle brand these days. Gwyneth Paltrow sells candles, skincare, and wellness products under her brand Goop. Kate Hudson founded Fabletics to sell workout clothes to the masses. And Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard created Hello Bello, a line of environmentally friendly baby products. Recently, celebrities are diving into
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Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of May 3, 2021. Verizon moves on from media. Telecommunications company Verizon will reportedly sell internet properties Yahoo and AOL, as well as its other media brands, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The deal, which is worth $5 billion, places the
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