Nike, plaintiffs' attorneys square off in first court hearing

An attorney for current and former Nike employees on Tuesday argued during a court hearing that a sweeping gender discrimination lawsuit against the sportswear giant should be allowed to proceed. The lawsuit was filed in August in the wake of reports about a "boys' club" culture at Nike. Nike filed a partial motion to dismiss the case in December, arguing the lawsuit is overly broad and lacks sufficient facts.

I owe how much? Americans shocked by impact of new tax law

The first tax filing season under the new federal tax law is proving to be surprising, confusing — and occasionally frightening — for some Americans, especially those accustomed to getting money back from the government. Take Andy Kraft and Amy Elias of Portland, Oregon. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center projected the tax law would reduce individual income taxes by about $1,260 on average, although it benefits higher earners more.

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Lump Sum vs. Regular Pension Payments: What's the Difference?

Understandably, you might be tempted to go with the lump sum. By taking a lump sum payment, you gain access to a large sum of money, which you can spend or invest as you see fit. "One thing I emphasize with clients is the flexibility that comes with a lump sum payment," says Dan Danford, CFP®, Family Investment Center, Saint Joseph, Mo. "[A pension payment] annuity is fixed (occasionally COLA-indexed), so there is little flexibility in the payment scheme.

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Illinois may tax private retirement funds to pay public worker pensions

FOX Business' Jeff Flock on the impact of Illinois' proposal to tax private retirement funds to pay for public workers' pensions.

Tech Data, Abacode team up to help companies comply with cybersecurity

As cybersecurity issues continue to make moves across the nation and world, officials are looking to crack down on making sure companies are complying with what they need to in order to keep hackers at bay. Tampa Bay-based companies Abacode and Tech Data Corp. announced Tuesday they have teamed up to help companies do just that. Tech Data is one of the largest end-to-end distributors of technology products, services and solutions, to provide security and compliance program implementation services to companies.

Losing a job in your 50s is especially tough. Here are 3 steps to take when layoffs happen

This is one of the many reasons why I believe our 50s can be the most challenging decade of our lives. Assuming you can clear the mental challenges, the financial and administrative obstacles can leave you feeling like a Rube Goldberg machine. Income, health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, bills, expenses, short-term savings and retirement savings are all immediately important in the face of a job loss.

Health Savings Account Rules: 6 Little-Known HSA Tips That Will Save You Money

Health Savings Account Rules: 6 Little-Known HSA Tips That Will Save You Money

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GBP/USD Price Forecast – British pound continues to show strength

The British pound initially pulled back a bit during the trading session on Tuesday, but it's turned around to rally and reach towards 1.2950 level, which I believe is a bit of resistance extending to the 1.30 level above. At this point, I believe that the British pound is in fact going to go much higher. Looking at the chart, you can see that the downtrend line has offered support, and the 50% Fibonacci retracement has also offered significant support.

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P&G stock hits $100

P&G stock began flirting with the century mark on Feb. 12, when shares crossed into the $99 range. Procter & Gamble shares last traded above $100 in 2004, but the all-time high is calculated based on the current adjusted price, which takes into account stock splits.  P&G announced in March 2004 a pending two-for-one stock split and shares closed at $105. The Courier's Steve Watkins reported back in 2004 that the P&G stock split would be like taking $100 out of the bank and being asked whether you wanted a $100 bill or two $50 bills.

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4 Red Flags The S&P May Pull Back Sharply

The most widely-followed barometer of the U.S. stock market, the S&P 500 Index (SPX), has staged a dramatic recovery from its December low, but a key technical indicator suggests that the S&P's rally -- and the broader market rebound -- may lose steam. "This area right here makes me very nervous because there's actually four significant technical levels here," says Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com. "The 200-day moving average right here--we have tried it once, twice, three, coming back on a fourth time," he told CNBC Adam Kobeissi, founder and editor-in-chief of The Kobeissi Letter, has a similar view.

Yield-Curve Inversion Trade Seen Roaring Back After FOMC Minutes

Wednesday's release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's January meeting has the potential to send one of the most widely-followed parts of the Treasury yield curve hurtling toward inversion within a matter of weeks. That's the view of BMO strategist Jon Hill, who says that the gap between 2-and 10-year notes -- which bottomed out at 9.1 basis points in December and currently stands at about 14.4 basis points -- could resume its narrowing trend should the minutes tilt either of two ways: The Federal Reserve signals that another interest-rate increase may be on the horizon even without clear signs of longer-run U.S. economic improvement, or if policy makers saw the risks of a r...

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Americans — particularly millennials — are alarmingly late on car payments

A record seven million Americans are more than 90 days late on their auto loan payments, and millennials are clearly leading delinquency rates, according to a report by the New York Fed. The NY Fed found that the number of new auto loans and leases appearing on credit reports in 2018 reached a new peak — the highest level in the 19 years they have monitored the data — at $584 billion. Looking at the number of auto loans in serious delinquency, the researchers noted that there was a “sharp worsening in the performance of the loans held by borrowers under 30 years old between 2014 and 2016.

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Walmart has something Amazon can't compete with

Those numbers dwarf Amazon, which has been expanding similar services from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now to 60 U.S. metro areas with grocery delivery and over 20 metros with pickup service. Amazon said it plans to expand, but it's hard for them to catch up to Walmart, which revealed efforts to grow grocery deliveries to more than 300 metro areas by the end of this year. We will continue to play and innovate as we shape the future of our omni retail.

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  Walmart's E-Commerce Sales Maintain Strong Momentum

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  Walmart surges, Facebook boots Russia-linked pages, Netflix cancels Marvel shows

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LendingClub fourth quarter loss narrows

Online lender LendingClub Corp reported a smaller quarterly loss on Tuesday, on the back of higher loan originations. The San Francisco-based company posted an adjusted loss of $4.1 million, or 1 cent per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to a loss of $7.3 million, or 2 cents per share, a year earlier. (https://reut.rs/2EiMdjC)

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