Getty As December 31 creeps closer, some employees are wondering what Santa will leave in their payroll stockings. Visions of huge bonuses – like the $10 million in bonuses to be paid to the 198 employees of Baltimore-based St. John Properties – may be dancing in their heads. But statistically, most bonuses and gifts are
Apartment of photographer and Hotel Chelsea resident, Tony Notarberardino. © Colin Miller Located on West 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, Hotel Chelsea is firmly part of American lore. Originally opened in 1884, Mark Twain, Allen Ginsburg, Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller, Leonard Cohen, and Patti Smith are among the artists, writers, musicians, and poets who
CNBC’s Jim Cramer gave viewers a peek at the week of earnings reports. Later in the show the “Mad Money” host says Costco has a China problem, but it’s not the tariffs on imports from the country. Cramer’s look at the week ahead An initial United States-China trade agreement appears to finally be coming to
The Adobe Systems Creative Cloud application is displayed on an Apple iPhone in an arranged photograph taken in Tiskilwa, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Adobe beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday on higher subscriptions in its core digital media business, which includes the flagship Creative Cloud suite
J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told employees that he’s “disgusted by racism and hate in any form” after a New York Times report detailed instances of discrimination at the bank’s branches. “We must make sure that the culture we aspire to reaches every corner of our company,” Dimon said in a memo sent late
With the Mega Millions jackpot at $340 million, Friday the 13th might turn out to be someone’s ultra-lucky day. Heading into Friday night’s drawing, the top prize has been climbing for more than two months with no one matching all six numbers in the twice-weekly drawings. And while the odds are stacked against a jackpot
Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump at the G-20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. Brendan Smialowsi | AFP | Getty Images Amid a slew of headlines and tweets, a long-awaited phase one trade deal between the U.S. and China has finally been agreed upon. However, Goldman Sachs is not so happy
skynesher | E+ | Getty Images For millions of Americans, unexpected bills can be summed up in two words: medical debt. Surprise health-care costs have affected about 137.1 million adults in the past year, according to recent research. And many Americans are turning to credit cards to help manage those debt burdens, according to CompareCards.com.
Getty As people look ahead to their retirement years, a primary objective is to identify areas of risk, with the goal of eliminating each and every risk that they believe could cause them harm. Experienced planners are trained to listen to these concerns, and their recommendations are typically well-intentioned efforts to meet this goal of
Getty It’s the second day of my 12 Days of Charitable Giving for 2019. Readers have suggested deserving charities over the past few weeks, and I’ll be posting the results here. Today’s charity is MEANS (Matching Excess and Need for Stability) Database. MEANS tackles hunger in a novel way. Too often, grocery stores and restaurants
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Basic Fun CEO Jay Foreman told CNBC on Friday that the company would have had to lay off employees in the new year if an initial trade deal with China didn’t work out. “It would have cost jobs, profit and cost a real, real upset of our business and many businesses in the toy industry,”
Costco Wholesale reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue on Thursday, hit by a slowdown in the number of customers shopping on the warehouse club operator’s website. U.S. grocers have become increasingly dependent on their online businesses to drive sales growth as consumers demand the convenience of shopping at home or at work in a sector saturated with
China has been uncharacteristically quiet ever since news broke that the U.S. had agreed to a phase one trade deal in principle with the Chinese. But that will change soon on Friday. Chinese officials are set to hold a press conference regarding the trade talks on Friday, at 10:30 p.m. Beijing time and 9:30 a.m.
Here’s about 18 minutes, uncut, from the last part of Jon Fortt’s Fortt Knox interview this week with rapper and entrepreneur Fat Joe. They’re in the back of Fat Joe’s UPNYC store in Washington Heights, days after he dropped latest album “Family Ties,” a collaboration with hit-making producer and rapper Dre. The album features features
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gives a keynote address, January 6, 2016 at the CES 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images A lot can happen in a decade. Since 2010, the S&P 500 has returned nearly 185%, an impressive gain for the bellwether stock index. While the
Hero Images | Hero Images | Getty Images The year is ending but, with a little ambition, you can still find some opportunities to cut your 2019 tax bill. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which went into effect in 2018, did away with several breaks filers could take prior to the end of the
Getty Estate planning is a complex world for most Americans. For many, the process can seem overwhelming and expensive. For others, it is uncomfortable to confront one’s mortality and requires tough decision making. But regardless of one’s feeling on estate planning, there is one estate planning document that all Americans should have: A Health Care Directive. But what
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Trading fractions of stocks is becoming more mainstream. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Topline: Robinhood is the latest company to offer clients the ability to trade fractions of stocks as it joins a growing number of firms looking to attract the next generation of investors.
The more formal of the two dining rooms displays the lighthearted decor executed by Julian … [+] Schnabel’s second wife, Jaqueline. Yale Wagner for Sotheby’s International Realty The range of this artist’s work is dizzying, though we know him best for his paintings and for his award-winning movies, including “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” and