Crooks may target tax pros with e-mails claiming to be potential clients or the IRS to scam sensitive information as the season nears, the Internal Revenue Service and other tax and security authorities are warning. The agencies' Security Summit partners said early indications are that cybercriminals are
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The Bloomberg terminal is necessary for traders at larger enterprise firms and hedge funds, and advisers wouldn't use enough of its functionality to make it worthwhile, he said. What advisers need is market data and a way to present information to clients. YCharts is one tool that can fill this roll, he said.
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Coca-Cola Co., facing an industrywide retreat from artificially sweetened sodas, is hoping its biggest Diet Coke makeover ever can win back consumers. The Atlanta-based beverage giant is relaunching its classic Diet Coke formula — along with four new flavors — in taller, thinner cans. The move comes
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Tax bill largely failed to simplify federal income tax, Colorado Springs accountant says. By: Wayne … While the new federal tax law was born as an effort to simplify the nation's complex income tax system, that's not how it turned out, the CEO of a major Colorado Springs accounting firm said Wednesday.
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According to Bloomberg Intelligence, Sears had $4.3 billion in outstanding debt at the end of the third quarter, about $1.5 billion of which comes due this year. And yet in Wednesday's press release, CEO Edward Lampert talked about using the cash infusion and cost savings to “increase our investment
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