A pack of Marlboro brand cigarettes is arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tobacco giants Philip Morris and Altria confirmed on Tuesday they were in merger talks, making one or multiple traders millions of dollars, according to trader and CNBC contributor Jon Najarian. Najarian highlighted unusual activity
Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden reacts during a campaign Community Event at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, U.S., August 24, 2019. Elizabeth Frantz | REUTERS After an event at Keene State College in New Hampshire over the weekend, a student walked up to Democratic presidential candidate Joe
Risk. Getty Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) substantially altered the economic picture when it reported revised numbers of total jobs created over the last year. The revision was substantial—private-sector job creation had been overestimated by more than 500,000 jobs in 2018. The revision helps explain some odd phenomena—like wages not increasing rapidly when the
Shutterstock Many securities traders incur significant tax bills on phantom income caused by “wash sale losses disallowed” on form 1099-Bs. Traders are often surprised because most brokers don’t report wash sale (WS) loss calculations during the year. In this blog post, learn how to deal with WS loss adjustments and how to avoid them in
The results are in for the New York City buildings with the most sales in the first half of 2019, with the Lower East Side waterfront tower One Manhattan Square topping lists from the real estate blog PropertyShark and the listings marketplace PropertyClub. Though both sites used Department of Finance data, they had slightly different