The Morning Pulse – Monday, January 4, 2021

January 4, 2021                                                                                SUBSCRIBE

• Parsing those 2021 financial market forecasts ; Creating a financial roadmap ; How to Make Money Without a Job ; Spend Less, and Smarter, in 2021 ; Small Ways to Have a Money Talk With Family and Friends
• How To Use Your Credit Card Grace Period To Avoid Paying Interest
• Mutual Funds, ETFs, Bitcoin Showed Strong Gains In 2020
• 4 Ways to Get Better Returns Than CDs
• Salvation Army now accepting cryptocurrency donations ; Don’t need your $600? Your favorite charity does
• My wife and I have 3 kids. I also have 3 kids from a previous marriage. How should we split our house among these 6 children?

• Protect seniors in this time of COVID
• Aging in place could inflict a huge burden on your family
• Turning 65 in 2021? Here’s What You Need to Know ; Here’s What Medicare Part A Costs and Covers in 2021

• Drugmakers raise prices 3.3% in New Year ; Filling of prescriptions is harder with insurer’s action ; Healthcare facilities prepare for second round of COVID-19 vaccinations
• Ultra-large Volume Wearable Injectors Market 2021
• This healthtech startup uses AI to assess health risks of expectant mothers
• UK hits daily coronavirus record, unions urge keeping schools closed ; India Approves Use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine

• Private schools pull students away from public schools ; Students to return to in-person learning in West Virginia ; Moody’s report forecasts financially bleak year for higher education

• Puppy Scams Soar Amid Pandemic; Pa. AG Issues Warning ; Lessons are still to be learned from recent cybersecurity cases ; Sabre Settles for $2.4 Million Over 2017 Breach ; Concern mounts over government cyber agency’s struggle to respond to hack fallout
• How 2020 changed the way we use technology
• NYSE to Delist China’s Major Telecom Operators
• Marketers can’t predict what you’ll buy—even if they use AI
• Apple Is Expected to Further Diversify Fintech Services in 2021 by Offering Crypto Support and Touch Free Digital Payments ; Facebook, Apple are feuding over ads | What does it mean for local businesses?

• The Average 401(k) Savings Rate: Will It Really Fund Retirement?  ; COVID-19 alters retirement horizons ; Do not go gentle? Thoughts on retirement in high, and low, places
• When You May Have To Fire Your 401(k) Advisor ; Is your 401(k) adviser costing you money?

• US Labor Department finalizes limits on pension-fund voting on corporate proxies
• Don’t bail out pensions at taxpayers’ expense

• 21 ways to boost your pension in 2021
• How to prepare your taxes in 2021
• DWP confirms how workplace pensions will be affected as the UK leave the EU
• 1700 aged persons deprived of pensions
• Instant loan apps claim another life in Hyderabad
• Usury travels online, thrives during pandemic

• Top market experts say stocks likely to continue bull run in 2021 ; Using 2020 Hindsight: The Emerging “New Normal” Picture ; Business owners hope to buy time with new COVID relief loans ; A year of farming under the Covid-19 pandemic
• Ringing in the new year with cheap gas ; Oil and gas industry faces many questions in 2021 ; OPEC+ meeting to decide oil production levels after a dismal 2020 ; Cambodia Prepares To Produce Its First Oil
• ESG-Proud TIAA and Harvard Endowment Had Engaged in Sketchy Brazilian Land Deals ; Fintech firms take the green route ; Christine Lagarde expected to make ECB a climate change pioneer ; Europe’s Covid-19 Bond Issuance Addressed Fiscal Shortcomings ; Institutional Investors Shifting Away From Oil In Favor Of Clean Tech
• Mongolian central bank buys record high precious metals ; Venezuela’s Maduro Plans Shift to a Fully Digitalized Economy ; Japan Government Holds Off on Tokyo’s State of Emergency Request ; Gross domestic product of Jordan declined by 2.2% in the third quarter of 2020 ; Turkey Yearly Inflation Miss Sets Stage for High Rates Into 2021 ; Trade Friction, Economic Costs Follow Brexit Deal ; China to increase retail gasoline, diesel prices

• Three hedge funds among shareholders in big Chinese telcos ejected from NYSE
• BlackRock scales back private-equity fund ambitions
• Bitcoin soars to a new record above $33000 Saturday ; Why Impact Investing and Crypto Are Mutually Beneficial ; Understanding cryptocurrency tax reporting rules ; Mitigating IRS Cryptocurrency Enforcement Risk In 2021 ; More Aussies Back Bitcoin
• ‘It’s been a record year’: Local agents predict real estate market trend to continue in 2021 ; REITs In 2020: Good, Bad, And Ugly ; Why I Stopped Buying Real Estate To Buy REITs Instead