Businessman in flooded office, barefeetde reading the newspaper, shoes at table Henrik Sorensen | Digitalvision | Getty Images Many Main Street businesses could be playing with fire — literally — by not maintaining appropriate levels of business insurance coverage, especially given the spate of natural disasters affecting multiple areas of the U.S. Skimping on property damage and business interruption coverage is understandable to some extent, given the cost. While the price of a business...

An aerial picture taken on October 1, 2022 shows a broken section of the Pine Island Road and destroyed houses in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlacha, Florida. Ricardo Arduengo | AFP | Getty Images Frequent weather catastrophes, induced in part by climate change, are bearing down on homeowners and would-be buyers. Some home insurers have opted to stop writing new business in heavily impacted states like Florida — currently under threat from Hurricane Idalia — and California, or in...

In this article AMZN+0.02 (+0.01%) Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Todd Niggeling delivers packages for Amazon in Sioux City, Iowa, on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Niggeling delivers packages through Amazon’s delivery hub program in which Amazon is using small businesses as centralized drop-off points and paying business owners to drive the last mile to deliver those packages instead. Rebecca S. Gratz | The Washington Post | Getty Images Attention Main Street businesses: Amazon wants...

Barrons.com PacWest Stock Plummets Again. This Time, It’s From News on Deposits. PacWest had some big outflows of deposits to report in its 10-Q Thursday morning, prompting a selloff in its stock. In the week following the May 1 closure of First Republic Bank, PacWest deposits fell 9.5%. Uninsured deposits pose the biggest flight risk. 2d ago Barrons.com Coinbase Says ‘We Screwed Up’ in Mini-Scandal Over Pepe the Frog Memecoin The cryptocurrency broker has been taking heat over research it...

Before choosing to enter into an income-share agreement to pay for college, students should look at such factors as the percentage of future income they are expected to pay. Photo: iStock Income-share agreements are starting to gain traction as a college-funding option. But because they are so new, many students and families don’t know much about them. In short, an ISA is a contract between a student and school in which a student receives education funding in exchange for a percentage of his...