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InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Google (NASDAQ GOOG ,NASDAQ GOOGL ) has patented a new tool that will make self driving cars safer . Source Travis Wise Via FlickrPedestrian glue is a new adhesive that

The Big Reason You Shouldn’t Buy GOOGL, AMZN or FB Stock
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Alphabet Inc ( GOOG , GOOGL ), Facebook Inc ( FB ) and Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN ) are most certainly on a different level when it comes to big

Estrella Jalisco: Anheuser-Busch Brings Mexican Beer to US
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Anheuser Busch (NYSE BUD ) is bringing Estrella Jalisco  north of the border. Source WikipediaThe beer giant is looking to widen its international portfolio in the U.S. by adding a

Why Build-a-Bear (BBW) Stock Is Heading Higher Today
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Build a Bear Workshop, Inc (NYSE BBW ) shares are booming Friday following very fishy news . The company announced that it

Minecraft Is Heading to China
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Minecraft will soon be in China . Source deviantARTThe creators of the block building game announced that mainland China consumers will have the opportunity to buy the modern classic now.

PlayStation 4 News: Gran Turismo Sport Coming to PS4 on Nov. 15
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Sony PlayStation 4 (NYSE SNE ) gamers will soon be able to race in the new Gran Turismo game . Source WikipediaThe popular racing franchise is launching  Gran Turismo Sport for PS4

McDonald’s Launches ‘Angry Birds’ Burgers
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips McDonald’s (NYSE MCD ) has partnered up with the popular mobile game  Angry Birds for a new product. The fast food chain has

Why Campbell Soup Company (CPB), Deere & Company (DE) and Foot Locker, Inc. (FL) Are 3 of Today’s Worst Stocks
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Following through on yesterday’s intraday bullish reversal, the buyers picked the ball up early today and carried it higher. The S&P 500 ‘s close of

Why Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT), Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (DKS) and Dillard’s, Inc. (DDS) Are 3 of Today’s Best Stocks
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Stocks finished off their highs of the day, but still ended in strong form Friday as the S&P 500 gained 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial

Nike Starbucks Sneakers Are a Thing. Really.
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Nike (NYSE NKE ) and  Starbucks (NASDAQ SBUX ) seems like an odd combination but an unofficial partnership among the two has surged. Source ©iStock.com garett_mosher The athletics apparel giant

Stocks Rebound Into the Green for 2016
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips U.S. equities moved higher on Friday as bargain hunters descended, pushing the large cap averages back into positive territory for the year to date. There

The Real Cost of Buying a New Car: Opportunity
InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips I am  a fairly frugal person . An example of that is the fact that I drive a 15 year old car. I would likely

A conversation about technology, robotics and retirement
As head of BlackRock’s Global Retirement Strategy Group, I meet some interesting people who all have different ideas about how an aging global population is changing the way we think about retirement. At a recent BlackRock Retirement Institute

Valuable Advice For Clients Who Move Between Residences
Ron Eppler lives in Michigan, but many of his long-time clients reside at least part of the time in Florida. “Most of them have bought a second home,” says Eppler, who is managing director of investments at The Weissman Eppler Investment Group of Wells Fargo Advisors in Ann Arbor, Mich. For tax purposes, because

How Much Should You Save for Retirement?
It’s what many people want to know, and most struggle to figure out: How much should I save for retirement? If you could nail the answer exactly, your retirement worries would probably disappear: The ability to tell the future is bound to bring on enough wealth to fund those later years. Planning for retirement is

Reporting a Required Minimum Distribution to Charity on Your Tax Return
I read your column about giving your IRA’s required minimum distribution to charity , and I have a few follow up questions. How do I report the distribution on my 1040? Will I get a 1099 R showing that

10 Best Retirement Freebies
Prices don’t get much lower than “free.” Sure, senior discounts, on everything from going to the movies to riding the bus, are ripe for the taking. But there are also plenty of freebies out there for those who have

Shifting to Dividend Stocks as Retirement Approaches
Then High school economics teacher Brett Burkey (pictured at left) appeared in our July 2006 issue when he asked the Portfolio Doctor (a monthly feature at the time) about his stock market strategy. Burkey, then 45, was doing well

Doing The Math: Help Clients Plan For 35 Years Of Retirement
In a world where it seems that every client aims to have a portfolio that holds up through at least 35 years of retirement, it would be helpful to have some principles and mathematical measures to use as a guide in accumulating and dispersing retirement funds. There is one principle that practically everyone knows:

What It Takes to Save $1 Million for Retirement
One million dollars: for most of us, that seems like a lot to save for retirement . Given that the median household income is $53,657 — according to the U.S. Census Bureau — it would take about 19 years to amass $1 million if a person earning that much saved every cent of every paycheck. Of course, saving that much

Help Clients See Retirement As The Next Stage
Veteran adviser Marjorie Fox has begun to ponder her own retirement. A partner and senior adviser at FJY Financial in Reston, Va, she estimates that she will retire in five years after a 25-year long career. So Fox has become a student of her clients’ experiences during retirement and has noticed that they often

The Money Move That 75% Of Retirees Wish They Had Made
Afraid you’ll run out of money in retirement? Worried that money woes will force you to drastically cut back on your retirement lifestyle? To avoid those perils, pundits advise that you kick in more money to

12 Money Rules to Live By
One-size-fits-all financial advice isn’t supposed to work. We’re all as unique as snowflakes, so the financial rules that guide us should be molded to our individual situations. Except it turns out that rules of thumb can be really helpful. A study of West Point cadets, for example, found teaching rules of thumb

Alternative Investments Aren't Just for the Rich
By  Canon Hickman We’ve heard the saying that “the rich get richer,” and we all know that it takes money to make money. If it seems like wealthy people have special tools we don’t know about that help them grow their wealth more successfully, alternative investments could be the key. Alternative investments —

How Couples Can Master the Financial Balancing Act
By  Sabrina Lowell , CFP Learn more about Sabrina on NerdWallet’s  Ask an Advisor “No marriage is 50/50 all the time. Sometimes it’s 70/30, 80/20 or even 90/10.” Plenty of us have heard some version of this relationship adage. The part often left unspoken is that hopefully you won’t always be the party

Best Stocks to Invest in at Each Stage During Your Life
Life is a long journey, with many twists and turns along the way. These twists and turns also extend to our financial lives, which means that investing during one’s lifetime is not a “set it and forget it” type of thing. Different stages of life can require different investment vehicles and strategies. Here are

Social Security Decision Time: Help Clients Pick When To Claim
When should one begin taking Social Security? Most advisers know to tell clients to hold off, but many clients object to that recommendation until the decision is framed very differently. Advisers can tell them to spend money now and still let it grow. Take this recent case, for example. Sue is 66 and eligible to

Investment Fees Could Cost Millennials $590,000 in Retirement Cash
By Kevin Voigt NerdWallet A NerdWallet analysis of retirement investments found that paying just 1% in fees could cost a millennial more than $590,000 in lost returns over the course of their savings lifetime. Time is a double-edged sword for the generation born after 1980, the analysis found . Millennials have

When To Ignore This Client Request