The world is becoming increasingly urban, just as the impacts of climate change are starting to increase. City authorities need to work out where they are vulnerable and act to become more resilient to the threats they face. Oil refineries next to the Houston Ship Channel during Hurricane Harvey, which halted production as … [+]
Month: October 2019
CNBC’s Jim Cramer explains why it’s worth picking individual stocks in a world of investors that place more value in index funds. The “Mad Money” host chats with Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner coming off the company’s challenging third-quarter earnings report and Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell to get a read on the video conferencing arena. He
Employees sort packages at the United Parcel Service (UPS) Chicago Area Consolidation Hub in Hodgkins, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images on Tuesday reported a quarterly profit that came ahead of Wall Street estimates, benefiting from strong e-commerce demand and rival breakup with Amazon.com. United Parcel Service’s e-commerce fueled quarterly profit beat on Tuesday
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Snap tanked as much as 15% during extended trade despite the company posting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and user metrics. The maker of Snapchat posted a loss of 4 cents per share, which was better than the 5 cent loss per share Wall Street expected.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, wearing green tie at left, leave the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on April 3, 2019. Pat Greenhouse | Boston Globe | Getty Images Massachusetts prosecutors announced Tuesday that they are levying new charges against 11 of the 15 parents implicated in the “Varsity
A customer pulls into a McDonald’s restaurant in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Generally, profits are topping expectations by a large margin this earnings season, but there were some notable misses on Tuesday. Some of the largest and most well-known companies in the U.S. — including McDonald’s, UPS and Lockheed Martin
Kenneth Fisher, chief executive officer of Fisher Investments, speaks at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Gillianne Tedder | Bloomberg | Getty Images The New Hampshire Retirement System voted on Tuesday to end its $239 million relationship with Fisher Investments, bringing the total divested from the money manager
Gardens in Singapore Duy Nguyen/Unsplash With concerns increasing about US leadership on climate, immigration, and trade, and about Europe, slowed by its own economic and social pressures, my recent Asian travels fortified my sense that 21st century leadership will come from the East. The region is a work in process and much remains to be
The Tax Foundation’s 2020 State Business Tax Climate Index illustrates the states’ relative business … [+] tax burdens. (See: https://taxfoundation.org/2020-state-business-tax-climate-index/) The Tax Foundation The 27 states with the lightest tax burden on individuals continued to add jobs at double the rate of the 23 states with higher taxes since the federal tax cut was signed
The astonishing buying/investing power of SoftBank has altered much of the world’s way of thinking … [+] about businesses. Photo by Eloise Ambursley on Unsplash Is it just me, or has the reduction in WeWork’s ostensible value from $47B to $8B caused a frisson of schadenfreude in the business world? Could it be a sign
A line of Boeing 737 fuselages, eventually bound for Boeing’s production facility in nearby Renton, Wash., sit on flatcar rail cars at a rail yard Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson | AP A year ago, Boeing executives were trying to convince Wall Street investors they could ramp production of their best-selling 737
A F-35 fighter jet is seen as Turkey takes delivery of its first F-35 fighter jet with a ceremony at the Lockheed Martin in Forth Worth, Texas, United States on June 21, 2018. Atilgan Ozdil | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Lockheed Martin raised its forecast for 2019 earnings as it reported a 9.2% rise
Getty Images Shares of Travelers dropped more than 6% after the insurer reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings. The stock was on pace for its biggest one-day drop since Aug. 8, 2011, when it fell 7.6%. Travelers’ decline shaved off about 70 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which flopped around the flatline for most of
Tech just can’t get away from politics. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a bone to pick with Facebook, mainly its standards for political ads. After Facebook refused to take down a Trump campaign ad that accused him of wrongdoing connected to his son Hunter’s work in Ukraine, Warren fired back. She posted her own Facebook
Biotech stocks surged after Biogen announced plans to revive its Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab. The iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology ETF gained more than 3% at its high on Tuesday — its best daily gain since January 7 — with Biogen powering the ETF higher. Shares of Biogen are up more than 25% and tracking for one of
The downtown Buffalo, New York, skyline along the city’s historic waterfront district on Lake Erie. DenisTangneyJr | E+ | Getty Images East Nusa Tenggara? Madhya Pradesh? The average American vacationer might not have heard of these exotic, far-flung destinations — located in Indonesia and India, respectively — but iconic budget travel guide Lonely Planet says
Paisan191 | iStock / 360 | Getty Images Several years ago Bryanne Leeming had little more than a promising business idea and a prototype for a device to teach kids how to code through recess-style play. Today her Boston-based start-up has 10 employees, and its initial product, Unruly Splats, is used by schools in 45
You’d like to learn how to invest $1,000. Is this possible? After all, don’t many financial advisors have investing minimums? What if you’re new to investing? Where do you start? Yes, there are places you can invest $1,000. And, some of them are pretty nifty, as well. But, it’s not enough to know some places
If you live in California, you probably know how aggressive California’s state tax agency can be. In fact, even if you live somewhere else, you might have heard of the Golden State’s aggressive tax rules. Buy a vacation home in California, and stay a little too long? Come into the state and do some work
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The payout is around 20% of WeWork’s now $8 billion valuation. Visual China Group via Getty Images Topline: With SoftBank’s takeover of WeWork nearing completion, former CEO Adam Neumann will reportedly get a $1.7 billion deal to walk away from the company and give up his
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