Sep 6, 2026 ·
Engadget
Time Machine on macOS creates local backups of your Mac (apps, photos, videos, and documents) to an external APFS-formatted drive, letting you restore individual files or your entire Mac without paying for cloud storage subscriptions.
Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) has paid dividends every year since 1833 (over 190 years) without cutting its dividend during the Great Recession, and now offers investors a nearly 3.5% yield versus an average bank yield around 2.2% and about a 1% yield on the S&P 500.
Sep 6, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Energy Transfer is targeting 3% to 5% annual distribution growth and currently yields 6.3%, versus Enterprise Products Partners’ 5.6% yield.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A $10,000 Nvidia investment from about a decade ago would now be worth almost $1.5 million, but turning $10,000 into $1 million would require Nvidia’s stock to rise 100x from current levels (to make Nvidia’s market cap exceed $500 trillion).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A stepped-up basis generally revalues appreciated stock to fair market value on the owner’s date of death under 26 U.S. Code §1014, so heirs can sell immediately with decades of embedded capital gains wiped off the taxable ledger.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BDC and mortgage REIT dividends are taxed differently than a bank dividend because REITs and BDCs generally pass at least 90% of taxable income to shareholders, avoiding corporate income tax at the company level and shifting taxes to shareholders instead.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Successive like-kind 1031 exchanges can defer capital-gains tax indefinitely, and if the final rental is held until the owner dies, Section 1014’s stepped-up basis can erase all previously deferred gain for federal income-tax purposes (including depreciation recapture and up to 25% unrecaptured Section 1250 gain).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
FERS pension calculations generally exclude overtime from the “high-three” average (highest average basic pay over any 3 consecutive years), while Social Security counts the same overtime as covered earnings toward future benefits.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Coca-Cola (KO) stock is up 28% over the past year (vs. 5% for the average consumer staples stock and 20% for the S&P 500), while the article says the company looks fully priced to “a little bit expensive” at its current valuation.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A $1.5 million retirement nest egg implies about $60,000 per year under the 4% rule, which becomes roughly $84,000 or more annually when adding typical Social Security benefits of $2,071 per month—enough in some locations but tight in high-cost areas like Manhattan, San Francisco, and coastal Connecticut.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A portion of a typical $400,000 CCRC entrance fee can be treated as prepaid medical care and deducted on Schedule A in the year you write the check, even before you’ve used the health wing.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Dave Ramsey told caller Hernan that because he has zero paying clients for his online fitness-coaching brand, what he has is a theory—not a business.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fidelity’s framework for turning retirement savings into a reliable income stream recommends setting up automatic, recurring transfers from retirement accounts to a checking account aligned with bill due dates to stabilize cash flow and reduce the risk of missing required minimum distributions (RMDs).
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Holding high-yield REITs, mortgage REITs, and BDCs in a taxable brokerage can cost investors about $10,200 per $500,000 each year at the 24% federal bracket because distributions are taxed as ordinary income rather than keeping that income in a Roth IRA.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Many banks process direct deposits on your scheduled payday between midnight and 9 a.m., with deposits on weekends/holidays pushed to the next business day.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Puerto Rico’s Act 60 tax breaks “rarely apply” to IRA or Social Security income, which the article says guts the tax case for most retirees.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The S&P 500 has delivered about 10% average annual returns since 1928 despite major crashes, and the article argues that this supports keeping long-term investments in Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) for 10+ years.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Buying and holding the S&P 500 has produced a positive long-term outcome over 50 years despite alternating bull and bear market swings, supporting the idea that “doing nothing” (staying invested rather than market-timing) is often the best response to a potential downturn.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A software engineer received a $4 million payout after an acquired startup, but his girlfriend’s request to add her name to the account could create legal, tax, and financial complications that are hard to unwind—especially because they aren’t married and don’t have a formal agreement.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Annuities let retirees convert a lump sum into a contract that pays a fixed monthly amount (a “paycheck”) for a set period or for life, which Jean Chatzky says helps reduce paralyzing uncertainty about when and how much to spend.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CME FedWatch shows about a 60% chance the Fed will hike rates at its September meeting and about a 40% chance it will hold them steady.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
