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How is QQQ stock faring? The Invesco QQQ ETF has declined by 0.73% over the past five days but is up about 12% year-to-date.  Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. According to TipRanks’ unique ETF analyst consensus, which is based on a weighted average of analyst ratings on its holdings, QQQ is a Moderate Buy. The Street’s average price target of $651.58 for the QQQ ETF implies an upside potential of 15.2%.  Currently, QQQ’s five holdings with the highest upside potential…

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While it may not be enough for some shareholders, we think it is good to see the Freelancer Limited (ASX:FLN) share price up 13% in a single quarter. But that doesn’t change the fact that the returns over the last half decade have been disappointing. The share price has failed to impress anyone , down a sizable 58% during that time. So we’re hesitant to put much weight behind the short term increase. But it could be that the fall was overdone. If the past week is anything to go by, investor sentiment for Freelancer isn’t positive, so let’s see…

USD/JPY tested higher on Wednesday, but remains capped below 148.50.Risk sentiment and Fed rate cut expectations remain the key drivers of Greenback flows.US ADP jobs preview data in the barrel for Thursday.USD/JPY two-stepped near the 148.00 handle on Wednesday, testing higher but remaining capped below the 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) near 148.22. The pair briefly hit a five-week high of 149.14, but traders are struggling to develop or maintain momentum ahead of this Friday’s critical Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) jobs report.US ADP Employment Change figures from August and the ISM’s latest Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) will land on markets on…

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This industry perspective is by Christine Clayton, founder of BrandMuse. The announcement that Working Not Working (WNW) would be closing at the end of June marked a shift for the creative industry. For more than a decade, WNW connected talented freelancers with clients who valued thoughtful, strategic, human-centered creative work. The closure has pushed many of those freelancers and the clients who relied on them toward mass-market gig platforms where creative work is treated like a commodity. That shift is dangerous. Creative work thrives when relationships lead, and these systems put human relationships first, rather than algorithms or bidding wars.…

The no-annual-fee Citi Strata℠ Card (see rates and fees) offers compelling earning rates for everyday purchases and is a good entry point into the Citi ThankYou Rewards ecosystem.Let’s look at what the Citi Strata has to offer to help you decide whether you’ll benefit from having it in your wallet.Key benefits of the Citi StrataBefore we know who should (and shouldn’t) get the Citi Strata, let’s walk through its main perks.Solid welcome bonusNew cardholders of the Citi Strata can earn 30,000 bonus points after spending $1,000 on purchases within the first three months of account opening.This bonus is worth $570,…

Working for yourself or ‘working for the man’? The difference is more than an impression – and French law takes a very dim view of so-called ‘disguised employment’. Here at The Local, we’ve written numerous articles on the pros and cons, the ups and downs of being self-employed – and what you need to know if you are self-employed in France. But when is self-employment not self-employment? When it’s actually employment disguised as self-employment, which is also known as ‘disguised employment’ (emploi déguisé), and – in French law – is considered to be undeclared work, or travail dissimulé. And penalties…

M Swiet Productions | Getty ImagesAs a financial planner in the early 90s, William “Bill” Bengen confronted a question that still puzzles aspiring retirees today — “When I get to retirement, how much can I spend?”For Bengen’s baby boomer clients at the time, there was little expert guidance on the subject.Bengen decided to investigate himself by running numbers with a spreadsheet and a data book.In October 1994, he published his findings in the Journal of Financial Planning, and what is now known as the 4% withdrawal rule for retirement was born.Today’s investors still confront the same retirement withdrawal dilemma, with…

Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Freelancer ( (AU:FLN) ) has issued an announcement. Freelancer Limited has announced a change in the director’s interest in securities, specifically involving Robert Matthew Barrie. The director has increased his indirect holding by acquiring 433,300 fully paid ordinary shares through an on-market trade, reflecting a strategic move that could impact the company’s market perception and stakeholder confidence. The most recent analyst rating on (AU:FLN) stock is a Hold with a A$0.50 price…