Personal Finance & Money Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, October 27, 2016

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Top new questions this week: Money transfer scam I live in Croatia and my family breeds dogs. When we have puppies we list them for sale on a Croatian website similar to eBay. Every once in a while for the past year or two we get a message from a US ... money-transfer fees scams refund   asked by Mario Plantosar 27 votes answered by Vicky 49 votes Why is AT&T's stock price declining, during the days that they announced the acquisition of Time Warner inc.? Why does the stock price decline when a seemingly promising acquisition is announced & agreed on? stocks stock-analysis stock-markets stock-valuation corporate-acquisition   asked by Leo 16 votes answered by Daniel Anderson 29 votes Why index funds have different prices? When index funds track the same index, why then do they have different prices? For example, I see a large difference between Vanguard, Fidelity, and Schwab index funds when they all track, for ... index-fund   asked by Rohit 10 votes answered by quid 11 votes Pros and cons of investing in a cheaper vs expensive index funds that track the same index I would like to invest $1000 in index funds. Both Vanguard and Schwab track the same S&P 500 index. However, Vanguard's S&P ETF has a unit price of $196 and Schwab's S&P mutual fund has a ... index-fund   asked by Rohit 9 votes answered by Michael Kjörling 26 votes Confirming that stocks are listed under my name I'm new to stocks. Say that I buy a piece of stock through my broker. If I understand correctly, it's listed in the stock exchange as being owned by my broker, with my name listed under "street name", ... stocks stock-exchanges broker   asked by Ram Rachum 7 votes answered by Nick R 9 votes Federal Taxes on Retirement Money - Puerto Rico Taxes after Retirement Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the USA. Puertoricans are US Citizen, but while they live in the island they don't have to pay Federal Taxes. My question is for someone that have lived in the US ... united-states taxes puerto-rico   asked by Geo 4 votes answered by BrenBarn 2 votes Does U.S. tax code call for small business owners to count business purchases as personal income? I have recently heard 2 stories from family members who say that they were required to count a large portion of their business purchases as taxable personal income, with their respective businesses. ... united-states taxes income-tax small-business   asked by krb686 4 votes answered by David Schwartz 8 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is it safe to give out one's bank account number? I'm managing the utility of the house and I'm sharing with another person. He asks me to provide my bank account number, so that he can transfer his money to my account when paying the utility. I ... bank-account fraud   asked by Tim 69 votes answered by JohnFx 40 votes Would I ever need credit card if my debit card is issued by MasterCard/Visa? My debit card is issued by Visa, but MasterCard AFAIK doesn't differ in that case. I can use it to pay in shops, online, to reserve place in hotel etc. I manage to constantly have enough money on ... credit-card debit-card   asked by GeoLog81 38 votes answered by user32479 83 votes Can you answer these? Do I need to pay tax in US that ESPPS and RSUs earned in India When I was working in India I got some RSUs and also purchased ESPPs from my company by contributing from my salary.Its US based company located in India. I have an account in ETrade. ETrade has ... united-states taxes india espp   asked by chandra 1 vote ER Physician did not bill health insurance This is a little more than just the ER Physician not billing insurance. I ran my credit report in June and realized that a collection agency has a bill on there from 2012, that they just reported in ... united-states credit insurance billing   asked by R Smith 4 votes capital gains tax for non-resident trading German stocks I come from Hong Kong, a non-German citizen living outside the German and trading German stocks through a U.S. internet broker. Should I have to pay capital gains tax to German government on the money ... stocks capital-gain capital-gains-tax germany online-trading   asked by nckbua 3 votes

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