The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Foundation estimate s nearly two-thirds of Americans c a n't pass a basic financial literacy test. Schools aren't instilling financial literacy along with ABCs and the three R's, but parents can educate kids about money.

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently disclosed an interesting detail about Apple Park, the company's new headquarters: Everyone gets a standing desk. "It's much better for your lifestyle," Cook said in a recent interview. Most of what happens inside Apple Park, the iPhone company's stunning new headquarters, is top secret.
Real estate investment trusts are excellent investment vehicles for investors looking to generate current portfolio income. This is in large part because of the legal implications of operating as a real estate investment trust. REITs are required by law to pay out more than 90% of their net income as distributions to shareholders.
Google has been increasing its presence in China in recent times, and today it has continued that push by agreeing to a strategic partnership with e-commerce firm JD.com which will see Google purchase $550 million of shares in the Chinese firm. Google has made investments in China, released products there and opened up offices that include an AI hub, but now it is working with JD.com largely outside of China. In a joint release, the companies said they would "collaborate on a range of strategic initiatives, including joint development of retail solutions" in Europe, the U.S. and Southeast Asia.
Shares of the beleaguered industrial giant are down 9.6% in the last 30 days, despite getting a boost from investors on May 21 when the company announced an $11.1 billion deal between GE Transportation and Wabtec. The challenges in the Power segment could pose a severe risk to GE's credit rating.
There were several things I did to get to the point of early retirement. Retiring early can be done at all income levels, but the more you earn the more you can sock away and the more you’ll have to fund the retirement you want.
Ford has developed a massive development plan for a new-mobility corridor stretching from Detroit through its revamped headquarters in Dearborn to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. CEO Jim Hackett is bringing his "design thinking" innovation and management approach to the task of remaking the 100-plus-year-old company. Ford has bought a huge, crumbling rail station near downtown Detroit and intends to combine it with a plan to revive the city's Corktown neighborhood to be a center of the carmaker's Smart Mobility efforts.
Analyst: ‘We have seen investors escape into U.S. tech stocks, but that may be starting to run its course’President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a meeting in Beijing in November 2017. U.S. stock futures lost ground Monday, putting the Dow industrials on track for a fifth losing session in a row as trade-war fears continued to weigh on global markets. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YMU18.CBT)gave up 178 points, or 0.7%, to 24,931, while S&P 500 futures (ESU18.CME)shed 16.90 points, or 0.6%, to 2,767.50.
Jun.17 -- Johan Jooste, chief investment officer at Bank of Singapore Ltd., talks about the trade disputes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for financial markets. He speaks with Haidi Lun on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia."
The bull market is entering a new phase, but PNC Financial's Jeffrey Mills believes that's no reason to get negative on stocks. In an interview on CNBC's " Futures Now ," the firm's co-chief investment strategist acknowledged it will be hard to replicate
Amazon AMZN might have forever changed the grocery industry exactly one year ago when the e-commerce giant bought Whole Foods for roughly $14 billion on June 16, 2017. Today, grocery delivery is commonplace across the entire industry. Nielsen NLSN and the Food Marketing Institute released their second-ever "Digitally Engaged Food Shopper" study earlier this year, which stated that within the next five to seven years 70% of consumers will do at least some grocery shopping online.
Micron Technology Inc. faces many questions when it reports earnings, with the most important focusing on concern that memory-chip prices have wandered too high even amid continued strong demand from data centers. Chinese regulators launched a probe into memory chip makers like Micron, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. (005930.KS) and SK Hynix Inc. (000660.KS) earlier this month.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate and international benchmark Brent crude oil futures are trading sharply lower early Monday, pressured by expectations that OPEC and other major Non-OPEC members are preparing to raise output. At 0246 GMT, August WTI Crude Oil is trading $63.59, down $1.26 or -1.94% and August Brent Crude Oil is at $72.62, down $0.82 or -1.12%. After withholding output since January 2017, a cartel of consisting of OPEC and major non-OPEC producers like Russia appear to be ready to announce that they will be increasing output at OPEC’s meeting in Vienna on June 22-23.
A shocking number of people with rewards credit cards are making the same mistakeComedy Central/Courtesy Everett CollectionRewards points won’t offset a shopping spree. If you have a credit card with a high interest rate, this is the worst mistake you could make. Nearly 40% of cardholders with a rewards credit card carry a balance, according to a recent survey from the credit-card website CompareCards.com.
Jun.17 -- Japanese online marketplace Mercari Inc. raised 130.5 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in an initial public offering last week, after pricing at the top of the targeted range. Investors now gear up for the start of trading on Tuesday. Bloomberg's Pavel Alpeyev reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."

Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) haven’t been trading too well, tumbling some 5% on June 14. While ORCL stock started to recover as the week ended, some investors have to be wondering if this is a buying opportunity. JPMorgan analyst Mark Murphy downgraded the stock to neutral from overweight and cut his price target to $53 from $55.
Warren Ward readily acknowledges that closed-end funds occupy a particularly obscure niche in the market, but that's one reason why the Indiana certified financial planner likes them. Closed-end mutual funds have been around for years, with the sector tracing its roots to the 19th century. Closed-end funds have long had a small but faithful following, with about 2% of investors owning them in their portfolios.

Google said Monday that it will invest $550 million in Alibaba's main rival JD.com as the U.S. tech giant seeks to expand in fast-growing Asian e-commerce markets. Under the partnership, JD.com products will appear on Google's shopping service, giving JD.com access to consumers outside Asia, while Google can apply the Chinese e-commerce company's supply chain and logistics expertise to its technology. Google said that through the partnership, the company will explore new solutions to improve shopping experiences of consumers around the world.
There hasn’t been much happening in the crypto markets over the weekend which is something unusual for a market that has been used to a lot of volatility as compared to the other ones. Why Bitcoin Cash is Better than Bitcoin? How to Buy Bitcoin Cash?

A vague mention of Amazon.com Inc’s interest in any sector might be enough to send investors into a tizzy, but the top executive of US Xpress Enterprises Inc is unperturbed. “We see Amazon as a large customer and a good partner,” Chief Executive Officer Eric Fuller said in a phone interview.
Stock-market investors navigated, virtually unscathed, a gauntlet of central-bank gatherings, a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Kim Jong Un, and flaring trade tensions. The S&P 500 index(^GSPC)ended the week essentially flat, managing the narrowest of weekly gains, up 0.02% to 2,779.66, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average(^DJI)posted a weekly decline of 0.9%. The Nasdaq Composite Index(^IXIC)outperformed both, rising 1.3% for the five-day period.
At 115 years old, Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has had to adapt to many wrenching changes. Ford stock is tough. Through it all, Ford has been able to find ways to overcome the challenges, and become a stronger company.

U.S. company General Electric should be fined if it does not create as many jobs at Alstom as agreed when it purchased its energy subsidiary in 2015, a French government spokesman said on Sunday. GE had committed to create 1,000 net new jobs by the end of this year when it bought Alstom's energy business in 2015, but had created only 323 by the end of April, the Finance Ministry said last week. GE Chief Executive John Flannery informed French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire this week that the target was now "out of reach" because of difficult market conditions.
Iran says Venezuela and Iraq will join it in blocking a proposal to increase oil production that’s backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia when OPEC and its allies meet in Vienna this week. “Three OPEC founders are going to stop it,” Iran’s representative to the bloc Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said in comments to Bloomberg on Sunday.

Global stocks slid on Monday and U.S. oil prices slumped after U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on Chinese goods and Beijing responded with similar measures in an escalating trade dispute. Fears the spat between the world's two largest economies could intensify added to pressure on oil prices, which extended Friday's big fall into the start of week, while the dollar retreated from near 3-week highs against the safe-haven yen. Trump announced tariffs on Friday on $50 billion of Chinese imports, including cars, starting on July 6.