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☆ Gratitude Really is Good for You. Here’s What the Science Shows.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Christina Caron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2022, Stacy Batten said, her “whole year was on fire.”Her husband died of cancer, and her father died after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. And she moved across the country from Seattle to Fairfield County, Conn., after selling the home that she had lived in for 26 years. In her devastation, she noticed that she felt better when she looked for the good parts of each day. So she took a large Mason jar and turned it into a “gratitude jar,” which she now keeps on her night stand. Every night, she writes down a few things that she is grateful for on a scrap of paper and drops it inside.

Persons: Stacy Batten, ”, ” Batten, Robert A, Emmons Locations: Seattle, Fairfield County, Conn

☆ The U.S. is giving away 6 lighthouses—here's what it's like to actually own one: 'It's truly a labor of love'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The U.S. is giving away and auctioning off lighthouses across the East Coast and Midwest. The GSA will also sell four lighthouses in Ohio, Connecticut, Michigan and New York in a public auction. But there's a catch: While the lighthouse is free, the new owners will be responsible for the cost of upkeep and maintenance. Warwick Neck Light is located on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island and is one of the lighthouses being given away for free. Kelly told TIME that there are nonprofits that already maintain some of the lighthouses being offered up this year.

Persons: you've, John Kelly, Kelly, Richard Cucé, Blastco, Cucé Organizations: U.S . General Services Administration, GSA, CNBC, TIME, Istock, Getty, U.S . Navy, U.S, Congress, Historic Lighthouse Locations: East Coast, Midwest, Massachusetts , Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio , Connecticut, Michigan, New York, Narragansett, Old Saybrook , Connecticut, Hopper, Chesapeake, Penfield, Fairfield , Connecticut

☆ A 34-year-old real-estate investor explains his 'recession-proof' investing strategy that helped him achieve financial independence and quit his day job
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

By mid-2022, the cash flow from his two short-term rental units was enough to cover his family's expenses, allowing him to quit his day job. He is passionate about providing affordable housing, having seen first-hand how it can change a family's outcome. Long story short, she finally got her affordable housing unit and she was in tears." He expects his affordable housing unit, which he's currently renovating, to profit $200 a month minimum. "I think it's the perfect diversification strategy," said He, whose long-term goal is to acquire 1,000 affordable housing units.

Persons: Kent, PwC, there's Organizations: Bentley University, PricewaterhouseCoopers Locations: America, San Diego, Scottsdale , Arizona, Covid, Fairfield , Alabama, China, Boston, Chinatown

☆ Fixer-Uppers With Waterfront Views: The U.S. Is Unloading Lighthouses
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Looking for a place with waterfront views? The government might have a deal for you. The General Services Administration said on Friday that it was giving away six lighthouses to nonprofits or government agencies that promise to maintain them, and planned to sell four others to the public at auction. The lighthouses are on some of the most picturesque waters in New England and the Midwest. But aspiring lightkeepers should be prepared to do some repair work before living out their 19th-century maritime fantasies.

☆ Wall Street rallies, dollar gains as debt limit talks progress
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidSINGAPORE, May 17 (Reuters) - Wall Street moved higher on Wednesday, gathering momentum in afternoon trading, and the dollar touched a six-week high as regional banks surged and negotiations in Washington over raising the debt ceiling moved forward. Retail salesRegional banks provided some lift, with the KBW Regional Banks index (.KRX) surging 6.8% amid waning concerns of a liquidity crisis in the sector. The dollar gained touched a six-week high against a basket of world currencies, benefiting from its safe-haven status as debt ceiling talks grind on, but pulled back as investors trimmed their bets on near-term interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. The dollar index rose 0.3%, with the euro down 0.23% to $1.0836. Oil prices rebounded on a brightened demand outlook and optimism over a debt ceiling resolution.

☆ Wall St stocks, dollar gain with data; Fed, earnings in the wings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Sinéad Carew | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Also, weaker Chinese manufacturing data was outweighing support from OPEC+ supply cuts slated for this month. In currencies, the dollar index rose 0.383%, with the euro down 0.45% to $1.097. In Treasuries, yields on benchmark 10-year notes were up 9.7 basis points to 3.549%, from 3.452% late on Friday. The yield on the 2-year note was last was up 7.3 basis points at 4.1366%. Gold gave up all of its gains in volatile trading after the better-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data.

☆ Wall St stocks end lower, dollar gains after data; Fed, earnings in the wings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Sinéad Carew | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Crude oil prices were lower as weak economic data from China and expectations of another Fed interest rate hike on Wednesday outweighed support from OPEC+ supply cuts due this month. U.S. Treasury 10-year yields added to gains throughout the session, adding to a boost from the release of economic data Monday. In Treasuries, benchmark 10-year notes were up 12.4 basis points to 3.576%, from 3.452% late on Friday. The 2-year note was last was up 7.5 basis points to yield 4.1386%, from 4.064%. Gold prices edged lower as the dollar rose after better-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data.

☆ Baseball’s ‘Peculiar’ Pull Draws in a Former Star
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Noah Gittell | Hiroko Masuike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Daniel Murphy looked out over the grass at Fairfield Properties Ballpark, where the Long Island Ducks were practicing under cloudy skies. “Baseball is a beautiful game,” he said, “and it makes people do peculiar things.”Murphy would know. A three-time All-Star who played his last Major League Baseball game in 2020, he is attempting a comeback with the Ducks, whose 126-game season began on Friday with a road game in North Carolina. Murphy, along with some other long shots, intends to grind it out in the Atlantic League despite being 38 and having earned nearly $80 million in a 12-season major league career. The Atlantic League, which has been active since 1998, is a place of optimism and experimentation.

☆ Fact Check-Video doesn’t show a ransacked Walmart in April 2023 in Fairfield, California
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video showing a ransacked supermarket with an alarm blaring in the background dates to at least 2020 and contrary to online claims, it does not show an April 2023 incident in Fairfield, California. “Fairfield, California Walmart...,” reads a tweet sharing the video (here) (archive.is/YcqlK). Walmart Media Relations senior manager Robert Arrieta told Reuters in an email that the incident in the video did not happen at a Fairfield, CA store. The Fairfield, CA police said in an April 20, 2023 tweet that no such incident took place in Fairfield (here). Video of ransacked supermarket dates to at least 2020 and was not filmed at a Walmart store in Fairfield, CA in 2023.

☆ Wall St ends mixed as inflation data comes into focus
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The bellwether S&P 500 ended essentially unchanged. "With huge inflation data tomorrow, Fed minutes coming out soon and earnings right around the corner, traders are taking a wait and see approach to see how the inflation data comes in." Analysts expect aggregate first-quarter S&P 500 earnings falling 5.2% year-on-year, a stark reversal from the 1.4% annual growth seen at the beginning of the quarter. Among the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, communication services (.SPLRCL) and tech (.SPLRCT) ended in the red, while energy (.SPNY) and financials (.SPSY) enjoyed the largest percentage gains. The S&P 500 posted nine new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 64 new highs and 118 new lows.

☆ S&P 500 edges higher as investors look to CPI
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

With a lack of market moving catalysts, investors looked ahead to Wednesday's consumer price index (CPI) for any evidence that the long, slow inflation cooldown continues. Beyond CPI, investors are eyeing first-quarter reporting season, which surges from the starting gate this Friday with results from three major banks, Citigroup Inc (C.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N). Analysts expect aggregate first-quarter S&P 500 earnings falling 5.2% year-on-year, a stark reversal from the 1.4% annual growth seen at the beginning of the quarter. Among the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, energy (.SPNY) and materials (.SPLRCM) were enjoying the biggest percentage gains, while communication services (.SPLRCL) and tech (.SPLRCT) were in the red. The S&P 500 posted eight new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 56 new highs and 86 new lows.

☆ S&P 500 dips, Treasury yields fall as soft data fuels recession worries
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The pan-European STOXX 600 index (.STOXX) lost 0.22% and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe (.MIWD00000PUS) shed 0.44%. Emerging market stocks lost 0.03%. Treasury yields slipped further, with the benchmark 10-year yield touching lows last seen in September as the weak data supported the notion of a "Fed pause." The dollar index rose 0.07%, with the euro down 0.25% to $1.0925. Gold prices briefly touched their highest level since March 2022 before reversing course after a spate of soft U.S. economic data.

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Traders' bets are almost equally split between the Fed pausing its rate hikes in May and another 25 bps hike, according to CME Group's Fedwatch tool. Communication services (.SPLRCL) and information technology (.SPLRCT) led the gains among the S&P 500 sector indexes, all of which rose, except utilities (.SPLRCU). Bank of America (BAC.N) and UBS (UBS.N) now see the Fed funds rate target peaking at 5-5.25% in May compared to earlier forecasts of 5.25-5.5%. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.62-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and 3.27-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P index recorded one new 52-week high and five new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 17 new highs and 27 new lows.

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☆ Instant View: U.S. February CPI increase leaves market guessing on Fed
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Core CPI without food and energy prices increased 0.5% after rising 0.4% in January. Year over year core CPI gained 5.5% vs 5.6% in January. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast monthly CPI and core CPI up 0.4%. So they're going to have to respond to the banking crisis that's probably just not over yet." If the Fed’s worried about saving face or coming off as wishy washy or worried about losing credibility with the market, they're going to raise by 25 basis points.

☆ Hawkish Powell puts 50 bp Fed rate hikes back on table
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

"Powell makes it clear the Fed would react accordingly if the data suggests that inflation continues to move in the wrong direction. It was very clear to the market that the Fed is not going to equivocate in terms of data that suggests inflation continues to climb higher or remain sticky." "Six percent (terminal rate) would be a little higher than it is likely. ROBERT PAVLIK, SENIOR PORTFOLIO MANAGER, DAKOTA WEALTH, FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT"The focus of the Fed is trying to get inflation down to 2%. "I prefer just one more 25 basis point rate hike, but probably we're going to get three 25 basis point rate hikes."

☆ Wall Street closes sharply higher, notches weekly gains as Treasury yields ease
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The week also saw the benchmark S&P 500 break through its 50- and 200-day moving averages, two closely watched technical levels. [1/2] Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 3, 2023. Fourth-quarter earnings season is on the final stretch, with all but seven of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. This would imply the S&P 500 entered a three-quarter earnings recession in the closing months of 2022, per Refinitiv. The S&P 500 posted 23 new 52-week highs and 2 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 79 new highs and 57 new lows.

☆ Wall Street rallies, on course for weekly gains as Treasury yields dip
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 3, 2023. The week also saw the benchmark S&P 500 break through its 50- and 200-day moving averages, two closely watched technical levels. Fourth-quarter earnings season is on the final stretch, with all but seven of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. This would imply the S&P 500 entered a three-quarter earnings recession in the closing months of 2022, per Refinitiv. The S&P 500 posted 21 new 52-week highs and two new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 73 new highs and 49 new lows.

☆ January CPI accelerates, but trend easing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Data for December was revised higher to show the CPI gaining 0.1% instead of the 0.1% fall as previously reported. “It's not going to necessarily influence the Federal Reserve one way or another. "You have a little bit of a negative reaction because these numbers are not going to take the pressure off the Federal Reserve. "The real issue is what is the Federal Reserve going to do, it's pretty widely expected that they're going to raise rates both at their March meeting as well as their May meeting. "There's not much there for the Federal Reserve to give them some sort of a justification for taking their foot off the brake and reducing interest rates."

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☆ 'Phil of the Future' star Raviv Ullman said he wishes he'd been more strategic in his Disney Channel days: 'I was 17. I don't think I knew how to be.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Raviv (previously known as Ricky) Ullman starred in "Phil of the Future" from 2004 to 2006. Since then he's acted in other series and films, but took some time to reflect on his Disney days. I don't think I knew how to be strategic or what that actually meant in terms of a career." Even though Ullman spent time in the "Disney Circle of Stars" in the early 2000s, he said he was rarely star-struck. "I don't think I was looking at it like, 'now I am a Disney star and will do Disney movies forever,'" but "I never consciously was trying to break out."

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