When mid-April rolls around, it gets to be crunch time for filing your federal taxes. The appeal of taking a mulligan and simply blowing off your taxes this year might sound appealing, especially if you slip up and miss the filing deadline.
Every year at around this time, millions of Americans wave goodbye to a big chunk of their earnings from the previous year when they send off their tax checks. It’s never fun to give away hard-earned money, especially when is seems like you get nothing in return.
For millions of Americans that file their own taxes, their biggest secret fear is the dreaded a-word. But how likely is it at that you will be audited by the IRS this year, and what, if anything, can you do to reduce those chances?
The S&P 500 and the U.S. economy has shown incredible resilience this year in the face of global economic weakness.
The latest data from Credit Suisse indicate volatility could continue to be a key theme in financial markets. According to Credit Suisse analyst Ana Avramovic, transaction costs and investor fears have been on the rise recently.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA 0.8% made major headlines in the U.S. earlier this year when the company announced a new 5.6 stake in Groupon Inc GRPN 3.85%. Since the Groupon acquisition, however, Alibaba has shown no signs of slowing down.
U.S. jobless claims fell by 13,000 to 253,000 last week to their lowest level since November 1973. The surprise drop is certainly good news for a U.S. economy that investors have been concerned is softening in the face of international weakness.
The latest data from TickerTags indicates that World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. WWE 0.8%’s Wrestlemania 32 set more than just attendance records. Social media was buzzing about the event at record levels as well.
British luxury fashion brand Burberry is trading down by about 5 percent on Thursday after reporting disappointing Q1 sales.
Simmons & Co is upping EPS estimates and price targets for oil & gas E&P stocks. According to analyst Pearce Hammond, the firm’s new estimates reflect a mark-to-market update to the forward curve through 2018.