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You don’t need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or pennies. However, you may not be aware of the potential fortune you have hoarded away that could be worth more than just some extra spending cash. Some of the pennies lying around your house could far exceed their face value of one cent.

Pennies Worth Money: Quick Take

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In 2005, corporate trainer and consultant Keith Ferrazzi, along with co-writer Tahl Raz, penned the book “Never Eat Alone.” Nearly two decades later, the advice holds true. The title isn’t as metaphorical as it may sound. Ferrazzi advised that anyone who wants to be successful should make the most of every meal time by using it as a networking opportunity.

After all, as the saying — based on another popular business book by entrepreneur Porter...

When I started my side hustle, I didn't have a mentor, a big social media following, or any startup capital. I just had a drive to help people find great careers, and advice from some of my favorite books. 

In 2022, I quit my six-figure recruiting job at Amazon to grow my YouTube channel and launch my business, PayBump. I make videos about remote work and unique income streams, and create kits to help people make their resumes and cover letters shine.

Today, my business brings in $143,000 a mon...

Emma Grede didn't grow up near Silicon Valley tech founders or Manhattan financiers.

Raised by a single mom in East London, Grede didn't know "anyone that owned their own business," she recently told Jay Shetty, a former monk turned life coach and author, on his podcast "On Purpose."

Today, Grede is the CEO an...

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• Amid the FOMC meet and SEC busy with meetings for Spot ETF applications, crypto board saw meme coin BONK topping the gainers' list.
• Bitcoin and Ethereum witness a drop of 4% each during the week.

Boxy, colorful and emblazoned with the brand’s signature “TC” logo, Telfar’s “Shopping Bag” handbags have for years been prized accessories among the fashion conscious.

There are several factors that contribute to making the road to riches more difficult for women, one of them being the gender pay gap. Overall, women working full-time earn 83 cents for every $1 that men working full-time earn, and the gap is wider for women of color, a TIAA study found.

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On this week’s episode of “Drink Champs” N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN were again joined by Houston’s own Bun B. In a short but detailed conversation, the trio bounced around a number of topics, really getting into the bread and butter of Bun’s Trill Burgers brand.

Years after rising as one of the South’s premiere duos alongside Pimp C, UGK member Bun B embarked on a solo rap career. Though he stayed close to hip hop, over the last two decades, Bun started to cut his teeth as an entrepreneur...

Sharpe gave money to friends and family and even wrote a check for $15,000 to help victims of the Ethiopian famine. The one married man spent money on divorces, and cars, and gave money to slot machines while visiting casinos. "It came in, it went out," Sharp said. "I don't have one penny left of that." Shape earned $2,600 a month for a social security pension. However, he’s still free-hearted with what he has. "If someone needs something, I help out."

At first, Kelly Ifill had no interest in following in her family's footsteps.

Her father has a long-running contracting business. Her grandmother ran a cleaning service. Her aunt, uncle and even some cousins have experienced the highs and lows of running a small business.

"I had no interest in being an entrepreneur," Ifill, 37, tells CNBC Make It with a chuckle. "I was like, 'I don't want that. It looks hard!'" Instead, she was a schoolteacher, then an MBA candidate and a staffer for seed-stage...

“Bitcoin and any cryptocurrency at this point has not really established itself as a credible institutional investment,” Minerd said Wednesday during a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Everything is suspect.”

Minerd said his firm bought Bitcoin at $20,000 and sold w...

After buying stock in Rivian — the electric vehicle maker that promised a hotly anticipated SUV or truck version of a Tesla — at $72 a share, San Francisco tech program manager Carter Gibson wasn’t thrilled when the price dropped to an all-time low of $19.25 this past week.

A Wall Street darling, backed by Ford and Amazon, the latter of which placed an order for 100,000 electric delivery trucks, Rivian Automotive Inc. had the biggest IPO of 2021. The company was valued at more than Gener...

Italian luxury brand Gucci is going to start allowing customers to pay using a range of cryptocurrencies. The brand is joining several other firms that are opening themselves to virtual currency. The service will be rolled out later this month at flagship stores including Wooster Street in NYC and Rodeo Drive in LA. Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum will ...

The real estate investment platform Arrived Homes had its latest batch of rental properties scheduled to be released at 11:00 AM EDT today, but the rush of new investors eager to buy shares of the new properties caused the website to crash just minutes after the launch.

The company launched 13 new properties, ...

Kevin Hart may be ready to conquer a new industry.

According to a press release, the entertainer and businessman teamed up with tequila producer Juan Domingo Beckmann to launch a new tequila brand, Gran Coramino™.

The pair merged Beckmann’s knowledge of the tequila industry with Hart’s drive to produce top-quality tequila in hopes of creating community.  Now, the entrepreneurial venture, which was two years in the making, has led to a “perfectly smooth and uniquely balanced Reposado Cri...

Rick Ross has some questions for crypto-millionaires.

“That’s the thing about Rick Ross — that’s the thing about the bawse,” he said in a recent Instagram story. “The metaverse. Crypto. Y’all gettin’ so much money, where you at? Where you at? Show us! And I don’t mean ‘I’m tryna get money.’ Yo, man, I got a lot of money … But show us. Show my homies what the metaverse [is] about. Y’all big boy crypto dudes! … All that fake rich money, where it’s at?”

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NFTs are the bright, shiny objects capturing the attention of brands today. Here is a look at what NFTs can really offer your brand with lessons informed by real-world examples.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the newest tool demonstrating how value and currency as concepts are evolving through the digital age. And many companies are already taking notice—cementing their positio...

Doing a money challenge is a good way to build your savings.

Some money challenges are effective, but hard for most people to complete due to the significant amounts of money required toward the end of some challenges. By starting small with your saving habit, you can save a nice chunk of change without having to come up with prohibitively large amounts of money to stay on track.

Money challenges can be fun and motivating. If you have trouble saving money, ...

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Marijuana companies Akerna Corp., Green Thumb Industries Inc., Verano Holdings and Surterra Holdings Inc. have successfully monopolized the Illinois-branded marijuana market, from cultivation to manufacturing to retail dispensaries...

• For this jackpot, the cash option — which most winners choose instead of an annuity — is $271.9 million.
• Experts recommend that big lottery winners take steps right away to protect their windfall.
• Here are some tips if you manage to beat the odds and land the top prize.

If you play Powerball, there's a good chance you've daydreamed about how you would spend the money if you hit the jackpot.

With the lottery game's top prize at an advertised $454 million for Wednesday night's drawing, you may ...

In September, 2018, Natasha Hodgkin drove off the lot of a used-car dealership in Southwestern Ontario with a 2017 Kia Optima valued at less than $16,000 – and an auto-loan balance of nearly $29,000.

Her car payment amounted to more than $450 a month. Over the life of the loan, which had a term of seven years and an interest rate of nine per cent, she stood to pay more than $38,000 for a second-hand hatchback that, as Ms. Hodgkin’s papers show, turned out to have a persistent hood-latch is...

• North Korea's huge crypto hack marks a new era in cybersecurity threats.  
• "If there was ever a doubt that hacks were not tied to national security, that's been resolved," a blockchain expert told Insider. 
• Ari Redbord of TRM broke down how the hack signifies the emergence of a new kind of cyber warfare.
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The idea was taken as a jab at both the city of San Francisco, which has grappled with a deepening homeless crisis, and at Twitter, whose employees have been told they can work remotely forever. Perhaps the building would be better used as homeless housing, Musk s...

Despite being worth $26.7 billion, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of crypto exchange FTX, drives a Toyota Corolla, slee...

Grab Holdings Ltd.’s head of technology is leaving the ride-hailing and food-delivery company after seven years to lead a new cryptocurrency gaming venture, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Wui Ngiap Foo, the executive in charge of building up the platform’s mobility-services fleet, is leaving on March 31, said the people, asking not to be identified as the exit hasn’t been publicly announced. Foo, 35, has been a key member of Singapore-based Grab’s leadership team, he...

The largest cryptocurrency declined as much as 5.9% to $39,432 on Thursday, falling for the first time in three days. Ether dropped as much as 4.4% to $2,589. Most of the top cryptocurrencies were down at least slightly in the past 24 hours to 1:15 p.m. Hong Kong time, according to pricing from CoinGeck...

President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order this week that will outline the U.S. government’s strategy for cryptocurrencies, according to people familiar with the administration’s plans.

The order will direct federal agencies to examine potential regulatory changes, as well as the national security and economic impact of digital assets, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing the deliberations. The White House’s approach to crypto has attracted fresh attention in ...

Every week, Benzinga conducts a survey to collect sentiment on what traders are most excited, interested in or thinking about as they manage and build their personal portfolios.

© Provided by BenzingaIf You Had $1,000 Right Now, Would You Buy The Dip In Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Palantir Or Nvidia?

This week, we posed the following question to more than 1,000 Benzinga visitors: If you had $1,000 right now, would you buy the dip in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), Palantir Technologies ...

Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL)

Sundial is a Canadian company that makes cannabis products for recreational consumption.

A large number of U.S. states have legalized marijuana, as have many countries around the world.

It seems a question of when, not if, the U.S. will legalize marijuana on a national level. 

Sundial has several subsidiary brands, which it will use to appeal to different sectors of the cannabis market.

The company currently has its eye on Alcanna, Canada’s premier wine, spiri...

It took 179 years after the New York Stock Exchange was established in 1792 for a Black investment firm to take a seat.

And while there were already Black financiers and businessmen such as America’s first Black millionaire, Jeremiah G. Hamilton, who died in 1875, there are others who set the groundwork for today’s generation of Black Wall Street brokers and financiers.

Here are 11 who were among the first to break through on Wall Street.

Thorvald McGregor and Lawrence Lewis: Each of these m...

“We’re gonna see a lot of that throughout tax season, where folks just didn’t understand what they did. And there’s a lot of millennials that really did a lot of trading without knowing what the implications are,” Goodarzi said in an inter...

If you’d like to start making big money moves now, we’ve compiled a list of six ways you could boost your finances and grow your wealth in 2022.

In 2021, Brittany Pierre made over $109,000 selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, of her photography and flipping other NFTs she bought for a profit.

But before that, Pierre was struggling to pay rent on her Chicago apartment or afford groceries and bus fare, she tells CNBC Make It.

Her financial situation was very “touch and go,” Pierre, 36, says. She lived paycheck to paycheck and “got pretty depressed.”

In March, Pierre learned about nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Her friend and fellow a...

A Black woman is bringing a boutique hotel made of shipping containers to Indianapolis in the summer of 2022. 

© Provided by TravelNoireA Black-Owned Boutique Hotel Made Of Shipping Containers Opens In Indianapolis This Summer

Robin Staten, an Indy native, is the owner of Tiny Urban Escapes – a one-of-a-kind experience that’s transforming up-cycled shipping containers into micro semi-glass private suites. 

“This goes beyond hospitality,” Staten told the Indy Star.  “The intent is to t...

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It was an outcome that anyone familiar with the terms "tulip trading" or "Beanie Babies" could see coming: Cryptocurrency is crashing. Prices for cryptocurrencies "have cratered since reaching all-time highs in early November, wiping out an astonishing $1.35 trillion in value globally, nearly half of the total market," the Washington Post reports.

The whole thing had an air of a pyramid scheme to it. Media hype...

Stock markets in Asia have tumbled to their lowest in nearly 15 months after America’s central bank chief confirmed widely expected plans to tackle higher inflation with an increase in interest rates this year, beginning in March.

With investors also concerned about political tensions between Russia and Ukraine, supply chain problems and rising oil prices, the prospect of sustained increases in the cost of borrowing by the world’s most powerful economy sent a spasm of anxiety through finan...

Rarely does a new hotel’s name—especially one that’s not followed by that of a hospitality group such as Aman or Rosewood Hotels & Resorts—present potential guests with a clear sense of place. Such is not the case, however, for Somewhere Else, Pharrell Williams and Miami Beach–based hospitality entrepreneur David Grutman’s newest collaborative project on the Bahamas’s Paradise Island. The clever name, a bit unusual for a hotel, may be intriguingly vague, but it offers something ...

The time is inching near to the 2022 NFL Draft, and months before learning his football fate, Kayvon Thibodeaux just secured an influencer deal.

Under the latest name, image, and likeness (NIL) rules, the star defensive end has signed with Starface, a skincare brand, Ad Age reports. 

The Influencer Deal

According to the outlet, Thibodeaux is the first male athlete to work with Starface.

“We believe young people of all genders and identities are affected by unrealistic beauty standards and stigm...

The sell-off seen in the crypto space is continuing into the weekend, and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the apex crypto, is no exception. Bitcoin-backer and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, unsurprisingly, is seeing the weakness as a buying opportunity.

© Provided by BenzingaBitcoin May Be Plunging Hard, But Look Who's Buying The Dip

What Happened: Bukele said in a late Friday tweet that the country has purchased an additional 410 Bitcoins for $15 million, the nation now holds over 1,500 BTC. The ...

We’ve all heard the stories about Black millionaires making their dreams come true through impossible odds. But Jherrod Thomas of the Tomco Service Group has a very different story.

The 32-year-old engineer from Mississippi is a walking testament that success can be achieved through hard work, dedication, and a 9-to-5 job.

Yes, you read that correctly: a 9-to-5 job. That’s not something the Instagram hustling crowd necessarily wants you to hear or see, but it still is quite relevant — and...

"From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow, to the present day, our economy has never worked fairly for Black Americans -- or, really, for any American of color," the Treasury chief said during the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's annual...

The model: Seashell is taking on traditional banks by giving consumers a si...

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allas Cowboys NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman is ready to take on Big Beer names such as Budweiser and MolsonCoors with the same intensity as he did long-time rivals the New York Giants on a Sunday primetime matchup. 

Well sort of, but you get the point. 

Aikman, 55, revealed Tuesday he will be launching EIGHT beer after two years of developing the product along with award-winning brewmaster and beer industry veteran Phil Leinhart. Billed as suds for the modern beer drinker — in thi...

NIO stock has not been trading all that well over the last few months despite strength in other electric vehicle (EV) stocks.

While Tesla is not exactly hitting new 52-week highs, the stock has been holding up pretty well now that it's back above $1,000.

That's true even as CEO Elon Musk has continued to dump billions of dollars worth of the stock.

Ford , General Motors and others have been holding up pretty well too. However, NIO stock is not in the same category.

That's even as the company repo...

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atience has paid off immensely over the long run for stock investors. Since 1980, the benchmark S&P 500 has averaged an annual total return, including dividends, of roughly 11%.

However, cryptocurrencies have done a wee bit better in a much shorter time frame. Just since the March 2020 valuation bottom, the aggregate value of all digital currencies has soared more than 1,400% to $2.21 trillion. Over a five-year stretch, the total value of digital currencies has skyrocketed almost 14,800,000%!...

Do you trust other investors enough to trade on their collective wisdom? If you don't, it's understandable. After all, crowds have a knack for getting overly excited and then suddenly swinging in the other direction without warning. You're often better off doing your own thing.

Still, sometimes the masses do get it right.

That's what makes the current list of the positions most commonly held by clients of brokerage firm Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) at least worth a look. Here's a rundown of...

Reuters) - Only two days left to this year’s U.N. climate negotiations in Glasgow – officially. Behind the scenes, some delegates worry the COP26 talks could go overtime into Saturday.

But spirits were buoyed on Wednesday night by an unexpected joint statement by China and the U.S. pledging climate cooperation in tackling both methane emissions and deforestation.

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Cantaloupe, Inc, formerly USA Technologies, Inc., is a provider of cloud and mobile solutions for vending, micro markets, and office coffee service. The Company’s Seed Cloud provides cloud and mobile solutions for dynamic route scheduling, automated pre-kitting, responsive merchandising, inventory management, warehouse and accounting management, as well as cashless vending. It offers a value proposition...

© Getty Images Apple again warns of security risks to sideloading

In this case, it is making the argument against "sideloading" as both European Union regulators and American lawmakers consider forcing Apple to allow it.

Sideloading refers to the process of downloading applications onto a device from anywhere other than the manufacturer's proprietary s...

China’s enhanced crackdown on crypto has forced the world’s second-largest Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) mining pool to suspend operations.

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What Happened: Sparkpool, the second-largest Ethereum mining pool by hash rate, announced Monday it would be suspending all services in an effort to comply with regulatory requirements.

The Hangzhou-based mining pool had already suspended mining services for new China-based miners as of Friday but now plans to extend its ban to existing ...

Over the past 24 hours, Avalanche's (CRYPTO: AVAX) price rose 4.44% to $65.46. This continues its positive trend over the past week where it has experienced a 25.0% gain, moving from $51.09 to its current price. As it stands right now, the coin's all-time high is $75.28.

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The chart below compares the price movement and volatility for Avalanche over the past 24 hours (left) to its price movement over the past week (right). The gray bands are bollinger bands, measuring the ...

The price of Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) has once again jumped above $50,000 today and crypto traders are heading online to discuss what this means for BTC.

© Provided by InvestorPlace A render of bitcoin surrounding a smartphone.

Bitcoin has been on a wild ride this year that has had crypto traders gripping the edge of their seats. At its best, BTC was trading for about $63,000 per token back in April. However, a major downturn happened that saw it fall to roughly $30,000 per token back in July.

BTC...

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Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) recently listed Dogecoin for purchase or sale on their website. In celebration of putting the coin on their platform, they ran a sweepstakes. If any Coinbase user bought or sold $100 of Dogecoin, they were entered into a drawing to win $300,000 in Dogecoin.

Dogecoin was down 3.12% at $0.3155 at last check. Below is a lo...

• Within a decade, quantum computing is expected to be able to hack into cell phones, bank accounts, email addresses and bitcoin wallets.
• "The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has been working on a new standard for encryption for the future that's quantum proof," said Fred Thiel, CEO of cryptocurrency mining specialist Marathon Digital Holdings. 

© Provided by CNBC Intel's 17-qubit quantum test chip.

Stefan Thomas really could have used a quantum computer this year.

The German-b...

Dog-themed cryptocurrencies continued to widen losses, while so-called Ethereum (ETH) killers and non-fungible token or NFT oriented coins were buoyant in the early hours of Thursday at press time.

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What Happened: SHIBA INU (SHIBA) was down 12.88% at $0.0000089 at press time in a span of 24 hours. In the same period, the meme cryptocurrency fell 9.4% and 9.16% against Bitcoin (BTC) and ETH, respectively.

Dogecoin (DOGE) too traded in the red, down 5.67% in a 24-hour period...

© Provided by InvestorPlace a ripple coin

That gain boosts the market capitalization of the crypto to $47.15 billion, according to data tracked by CoinMarketCap. The two biggest digital currencies, Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) and Ethereum (CCC:ETH-USD) are also up, 6.83% and 14.56%, respectively.

The first endorsement is actually for Ripple, the payment solutions company that also manages the RippleNet cross-border payment network. As the issuer of XRP, the fintech was named yesterday by CNBC to its...

Exactly one month ago I gave up the golden handcuffs keeping me at Google. I left to build full-time, and I haven't looked back. Except when people have asked, and it happens almost every day. To be exact, 118 people have questioned why I quit and just as many have sought my guidance on getting in. If you want a job at Google or other top companies, here's my take.

It's a wonderful life if you can make the cut.

Volleyball, olympic size pools and personal trainers. Rock wall...

The first teaser for the animated film, featuring the voices of Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling, illustrates the mind-bending concept by featuring scenes from past Pixar films.

PixarIn a scene from the trailer, the five emotions have a reluctant group hug.

To promote its latest film, Pixar is looking back at its greatest hits.

The first teaser trailer for “Inside Out” was released Thursday, and most of the brief clip fe...

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Audio technology veteran Bose Corporation on Friday sued Beats Electronics over patented technology for canceling noise in earphones.
The suit filed in federal court in the US state of Delaware pits the 50-year-old firm against an Internet Age youngster being bought by Apple in a deal valued at $3 billion. ‘Bose brings this action against Beats...