As tax season revs up, investors might be on the hook for reporting – and paying – obligations on their tax-free municipal bonds. Investors are likely gathering the documents they need to file their 2024 tax returns, which are due on April 15. It was a big year for income-generating investments , even as the Federal Reserve trimmed interest rates three times. That means investors are finding themselves on the hook for taxes on interest income as their certificates of deposit, money market funds and high-yield savings accounts offered annual percentage yields exceeding 4%. Municipal bond investors aren’t necessarily spared…
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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts celebrate with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl LIX Mike Segar | ReutersThe Philadelphia Eagles weren’t the only ones who scored big at the Super Bowl.The NFL’s championship game attracted a record 127.7 million viewers on Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research.The supersized live audience was of most importance to the advertisers that shelled out big bucks to have their brands featured during the Super Bowl. It’s rare that programming on live TV attracts such a big audience in one sitting, making the hefty price tag worth it, advertising…
It hurt then. It hurts a little more now.Then, he was 21 years old, at the top of his game and the top of the world. The words “acetabular labrum” weren’t in his vocabulary, and COVID-19 didn’t even exist. There was nothing but 40-goal seasons ahead, and he’d be pulling that Team Canada sweater — and that gold medal, too — over his head soon enough. Time and talent were on his side.So yeah, it stung when Tyler Seguin was left off the 2014 Olympic team. It had come down to the wire, and his red-hot start to his first…
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks at the White House in Washington on Feb. 3, 2025.Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersU.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will head to Ukraine for discussions about the war with Russia, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.Trump said in a post on Truth Social that Bessent will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and suggested the two leaders could discuss pathways to ending the conflict.”This War MUST and WILL END SOON — Too much Death and Destruction,” Trump said in the post. “The U.S. has spent BILLIONS of Dollars Globally, with little to show. WHEN…
Lori Moffett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Fidelity National Information Services plunged the most since 2023 on Tuesday after the company reported quarterly earnings that fell short of Wall Street estimates and issued a disappointing forecast.The stock dropped 12% as of afternoon trading, heading for its biggest drop since March 2023. Here’s how the company did, compared to analysts’ consensus estimates from LSEG:Earnings per share: $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.36 expectedRevenue: $2.6 billion vs. $2.63 billion expectedRevenue at the fintech company increased 3.5% from $2.51 billion a year earlier, FIS said in a statement on Tuesday. Net income jumped almost fivefold to $304…
Surging meme coin popularity and “excess optimism” in early 2025 may be signaling a top in crypto asset prices, according to BCA Research, which urged investors Monday to “take profits and wait for a more attractive entry point.” Meme coins have taken center stage in 2025 after bitcoin quadrupled in price over the past two years, helped by the debut of bitcoin exchange-traded funds in early 2024 that went on to attract $40 billion in new money in their first year. The meme coin frenzy has been built not just on the promise of a new, pro-crypto presidential administration, but…
Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, speaks during The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit in New York City, Dec. 4, 2024.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesCitadel CEO Ken Griffin sent a stern warning against the negative impact from President Donald Trump’s combative approach to U.S. trade policy.”From my vantage point, the bombastic rhetoric, the damage has already been done,” Griffin said Tuesday at the UBS Financial Services Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida. “It’s a huge mistake to resort to this form of rhetoric when you’re trying to drive a bargain because … it tears into the minds of CEOs, policymakers…
President Donald Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday and renewed his insistence that Gaza could be emptied of all residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area — a plan that could likely only work if the Arab nation agrees to accept more refugees.Trump and Abdullah met in the Oval Office, where the president suggested he wouldn’t withhold U.S. aid to Jordan or other Arab nations like Egypt if they don’t agree to dramatically increase the number of people from Gaza they take in.”I don’t have to threaten that. I do…
In the last few weeks before the NFL scouting combine, teams conduct scouting meetings to have healthy debates on prospects and build initial draft boards. Their rankings won’t be set in stone as the 2025 NFL Draft process continues to play out, but they establish a foundation going into the combine later this month.Similarly, our board will have some fluctuation before the draft arrives in April, but this updated top 100 provides a frame of reference as the final draft picture comes into focus.Position C CB DT Edge G LB OT QB RB S TE WRClass Gr. Jr. R-Jr. R-So.…
Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country’s strictures on women, died on Feb. 4 at her home in Lisbon. She was 87.Her death was announced on Facebook by her publisher, Dom Quixote. The Portuguese prime minister, Luis Montenegro, paid tribute to her on X, calling her “an important example of freedom and the struggle to recognize the place of women.”Ms. Horta was the last surviving member of the celebrated writers known as the “Three Marias,” who together wrote the landmark 1972 book “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (“New Portuguese Letters”). A collection of letters the women…
