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I need to make an international wire transfer in 2-3 days -- how can I do that?
I need to make a wire transfer (from the USA) to an international bank in the next 3 business days. They specifically ask for an MT 103 receipt, so I don't think alternatives to SWIFT will work.
I ...
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Can my friend transfer from his Indian NRE account to my NRE account?
Me and my friend live in Mexico. He has borrowed some money from me in Mexico Currency. Now he wants to return that money in India Currency. So just wanted to check is it possible if he can transfer ...
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How does mutual funds confiscate the stock dividends?
I'm reading The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Bogle John, the founder of Vanguard index funds.
In Chapter Six: Dividends Are the Investor’s (Best?) Friend: But Mutual Funds Confiscate Too ...
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What would happen if I sign up for a credit card, but never use the card? [duplicate]
Amazon is offering $200 to sign up for their Prime Visa card. (I have Amazon Prime) (I have never had a credit card before only debit) What would happen if I sign up for the card and get approved but ...
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Where can I look up total returns of stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds? [closed]
I'm looking for a free way to look up total returns of various stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. FinanceCharts.com lets me save lists of stocks and ETFs and view total returns for various time periods, ...
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Which mortgage should I pay off first? Same interest rate and mortgage length
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I have two amortized mortgages; one big and one small.
The conditions (interest rate and mortgage length) are exactly the same.
Which should I pay off first?
I have always heard that you ...
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How to solve amortization schedule where 10% of the interest is paid back on 4th payment
I am trying to find an algorithm to solve this amortization schedule:
P = 1000, term = 12 months, Interest=5%, calculation based on actual/365.
10% of the total interest of the loan is added to the ...
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How do I report ATM card abuse?
My ATM Card was taken by a friend and transferred all my money to another bank as fundraising.
How can I get the details of the bank the money was transferred to?
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How to Account For a Refund of Taxes Which Have Already Been Paid to the Government with Double-Entry Accounting [closed]
I'm trying to understand how I would account for the following reservation of a hotel room:
Reservation Created: Jan 1
Checkin: Jul 1
Checkout: Jul 6
Daily Unit Rate: $100
Subtotal: $100 x 5 nights = ...
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In a divorce is there a benefit to selling stocks?
During a divorce when splitting up an account holding stocks is it better to sell all stocks and split the proceeds or to split the stocks? My husband sold all the stocks in the account which caused a ...
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If the highest federal tax rate is 33% and the highest provincial tax rate is 25.75%. why is the marginal tax rate 53% rather than 58.75% (Quebec)?
If I understand correctly, the total tax is basically the sum of federal taxes and provincial taxes, so for Quebec this should give a marginal tax rate of 58.75% (33% federal and 25.75% provincial). ...
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Home in escrow but decide not to buy
I am in escrow on a home that I planned to buy with another person. I planned to pay 3/4 of the price in cash and he got a loan for 1/4 the price of the home. Since entering escrow we no longer are a ...
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Time Limits on chargebacks when large company assures me refund is in progress
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Company rep has told me "refund is in progress" for a purchase I made with my credit card, however, it's been over a month, and I have not seen the refund. When or should I ...
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How to tell what the net amount in a payment from an employer should be?
I had parted ways from a former employer. I had worked full time and my pay rate was always the same. There were some complicating factors and the timing and amount of the last few payments were ...
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Going through a divorce and I’m in dire need of a new vehicle. Can I purchase one with a co-signer?
I’m currently going through a divorce in Mississippi. Non contested papers have been drawn up and sent to my wife. My vehicle has bitten the dust. Can I purchase a vehicle with a co-signer and keep it ...
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Can Schedule A medical expenses offset long term capital gains?
My elderly parents have recently started incurring very significant expenses for in-home care. They are considering selling a vacation home with a long-term capital gain to cover their caregiving ...
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Are interest and penalties due to the IRS when there is an automatic extension due to emergency?
I just got a letter from the IRS, saying that I owe them a small amount of money. I live in California, where we had an automatic extension to the due date until October 15, so that is when I filed. I ...
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Do Americans usually accept a stained dollar bill?
I'm not American, but have visited the US a couple of times. I think in one of those trips I got this $100 bill:
As you can see, it has some dark stains, but it didn't bother me at the time and I ...
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Bank sent int'l transfer to wrong beneficiary using wrong currency - when returned it was $2200 less because of conversion fees. Who's at fault?
At the end of May '23 I walked into my local WF branch with the instructions from WISE Bank on how to wire 72,000 euros to their Belgian branch. This was my first international transfer. The banker ...
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Will a negative reward points balance of a credit card incur interest?
If I have a credit card with a negative reward points balance (say due to a returned product), and if I let the reward balance remain negative, will this eventually incur interest charges?
A negative ...
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Why do companies pay a dividend when they can buy back and retire shares to increase their share price?
I am trying to determine something a bit niche that may not have an answer. I have asked professors, financial advisors, and random people. The best answer I have gotten is "I do not know, maybe ...
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Does Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) apply on Private Limited company - India
I own a small Private limited company in India. And I just received some inward remittance from abroad. Where my bank charged me for using forex services provided them which is almost towards the 1% ...
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How is the Underpayment of Estimated Tax penalty determined?
My understanding is that if you pay at least 90% of your current tax year obligations, pre-deductions, or 100%† of your obligations in the previous tax year, you avoid the penalty.
I was just sent a ...
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Titles and double booking entry not valid after move new pc [closed]
I moved my Gnucash files between PCs. I transferred all Gnucash files at my particular location that I consider for further moving process and keep them particularly in a folder then transferred them. ...
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Paying $185k back rent to sister - can I claim in taxes?
My sister bought my mother’s home from under me. It was a two family home. My sister lived in one apartment and I lived with my mother and two kids in the other apartment. My mother never asked for ...
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Friend accidentally Venmo'd me rent as a commercial Venmo transaction. What are the tax implications of this?
I pay the full rent to our landlord and my friend sends me his share. When using Venmo, he accidentally ticked the 'goods and services' option which marks it as a commercial transaction. He sent me $...
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A stranger messaged me “please put 10 dollars on my card”, followed by a card number. Is this a known scam?
I got contacted by someone on Telegram with the user name "." with the following message:
I am a citizen of Uzbekistan, my child is sick with gout, so can you
put 10 dollars on my card
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I want to reinvest in a stock after 2 years of not investing
I currently hold a stock (X) in which I have a 200% profit (invested about 2 years ago). I want to invest on the stock again. However, if I invest money in the stock now, the profit reduces as the ...
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How to maintain NAV (Net Asset Value) for family fund
I have a Google Sheet which consolidates multiple funds in which I am invested. I also track my trades in the same sheet and update the profits to track XIRR returns overall.
This is working fine for ...
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Calculate growth rate for stock that went from negative profit to a positive value [duplicate]
I'm trying to calculate the compound growth rate of operating margin, in a 5 years span:
compound growth rate = 100% * ((M1 / M2) ^ (year - 1) - 1)
M1 = current operating margin
M2 = operating ...
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Understanding the weight of stocks in S&P 500 indexes
I'm reading about S&P 500 stock list here,
https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500
It looks like each stock has a different weight, e.g MSFT has 7% but V has 1%, why is that? What's the problem of being ...
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What options do I have as the primary owner of a vehicle someone else drove daily?
Back story and its a long one!
I live in NH and my sister lives in MA.
My sister bought a car with my dad as cosigner but he passed away not long after. Because of this my sister needed a new cosigner ...
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How can I retrieve money from my company being resident in a different country?
Let's say I own a Limited company in Hong-Kong and I'm also an employee of different company abroad (outside HK).
My HK company will pay the profit tax (~8% on first 2 million HKD) every year.
How can ...
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In what cases is it profitable to sell currently-held bonds in favor of buying newly issued bonds?
Assuming there is no arbitrage, and say the Federal Reserve hiked rates from, say, 2% to 3%. I am holding a US treasury bond with a YTM of 2% (before the drop in price due to the rate hike).
If I am ...
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No Cost ETF - Is there a trap here
I have noticed that Fidelity has some no cost ETFs. That is, they do not charge a management fee. I have bought some Vanguard ETFs because they have a very low management fee. I consider both Fidelity ...
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What's app crypto romantic scam?
didn't have...and then I could tell he was frustrated because it seemed like he just dripped the conversation. I tried to contact him a few times, I can see that he saw the message, but there was no ...
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Should I include institution holdings percentage in security analysis?
I'm trying to understand the impact of Institutional Ownership in security analysis, e.g 94% float shares of CROX are owned by institutions, https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/crox/...
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Should I include negative values to calculate the average PE ratio?
I created a computer program to analyze the stock market. I need to calculate the average PE ratio of each stock market sectors, e.g Health Care, Energy, Utilities.
However, many companies listed have ...
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Is personal loan interest deductable from other income / income for capital gains
Say I take a personal loan and invest that amount on P2P lending platform, or in a high yeild FD, or in the stock market. Is the loan interest that I pay for this loan eligible to be deducted from the ...
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How do I model the diversification benefit of adding something to my portfolio?
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How can I quantify the marginal diversification benefit of adding a particular holding to a portfolio?
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In this question, I asked about manually replicating a world-tracker ETF by ...
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Settlement period change in 2024
There is a settlement change in May 2024. Does that change applies to
Stocks/ETF
Options
Mutual Funds
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Does dividend tax witholding mean that ETFs aren't necessarily great for personal pensions overseas?
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For tax-shielded personal pensions (US IRAs, UK SIPPs), should one prefer to "manually replicate" ETFs by holding stocks directly instead of buying ETFs, to avoid US withholding tax ...
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How can TIPS have negative real yields?
In this Investopedia explainer about TIPS, it says:
The yields on TIPS are often negative. This is because after taking into account the effects of inflation, the real yield is negative. For instance,...
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Does the owner of a company effectively "give up" a portion of his company on IPO?
I’ve been trying to understand IPOs by reading some questions about it on this forum.
As I understand it, if I’m the owner of 100% of the company and decide to go public with, say 10% of my company, I’...
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(canada corporate tax) Assets dont add up to liabilities and equity due to rounding errors. How to fix?
My accounting software (waveapps) and all my invoices/receipts/bank statements rounds up to the cent. But all of the underlying T2 schedules and forms from the Canadian Revenue Agency are rounded to ...
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PURCHASES IN DUBAI WITH USA DEBIT CARD
I'm working in Dubai constructing a building for a company there, but I use my US bank account to buy materials and tools. Do I have to pay VAT at my bank in the USA or do they just add VAT ...
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I just found my Euro Disney S.C.A share certificates
I've been trying yo find out how i can sell my Euro Disney S.C.A shares. I know Euro Disney brought back the shares in 2017
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Are all my sources of income considered when calculating the repayment of my student loan?
Actually, I have two questions.
I have a student loan income-based repayment, from my studies in the UK. Are any other income sources rather than my salary considered?. For example, a rent I get from ...
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In the UK, if I pay tax on both PAYE and Self-Assessment, where will my savings interest be taxed?
Like a lot of people in the UK fortunate enough to have savings, the higher interest rates mean that I will be getting more than the £1000 tax-free allowance on savings interest. Unlike a lot of ...
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Format/organization of transactions? (Under GAAP, etc) [closed]
The accounting standards focus on the financial reports (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement).
What about the underlying transactions (from which the reports are created)?
Is a ...
