By JESSICA MENTON | USA Today (Tribune News Service) | Published: March 17, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. The coronavirus pandemic taught Marlon Watkins a valuable lesson about his stimulus money: invest for the future. After Watkins, 24, was laid off last spring when the pandemic closed restaurants across the country, he was determined to put his second and third stimulus checks toward investing once he got back on his feet. While unemployed, I realized I wasn t set up for success, says Watkins, an Army veteran who lives in Fresno County, California.
Stimulus check: Young investors use COVID payments to join stock boom
tennessean.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tennessean.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the year of COVID-19, who has really benefited from the stock market boom?
yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the year of COVID-19, who has really benefited from the stock market boom?
While some Americans have seen the value of their stock holdings soar, millions of low-income or unemployed people have missed the market boom.
Jessica Menton and George Petras, USA TODAY
Published
9:37 pm UTC Mar. 19, 2021
What is an IPO? Here’s what you need to know before you start investing
The stock market saw a record number of IPOs last year. And 2021 is looking just as strong. Here s what needs to happen for a company to go public.
Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
If you want to know what a stock market boom feels like for working Americans, start with Paige Benjamin.