In this article GME HPE MDB MSFT Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. Charles Platiau | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Thursday. Microsoft — Shares of the technology giant slipped 0.6% after Microsoft cut its earnings and revenue guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter. Microsoft
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In a Monday Wall Street Journal column (paywall), President Biden urged Congress to help fight inflation by raising tax rates on the very wealthy and using the money to reduce the deficit. Does that strategy make sense in today’s economic environment? At least in theory, raising taxes could ease inflation. But not necessarily for the
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When Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008, she knew she was committing to more than your typical 9-to-5 job. But the departing Meta COO says she didn’t realize the “24/7” job would last 14 years. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin recently caught up with Sandberg, who said she initially only expected to stay at Facebook for five
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Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia was a shocker. Two utterly nonestablishment candidates won the top spots and will face each other in a runoff on June 19. The front-runner is a one-time leftist guerrilla who won’t disavow his past and who vows to launch a radical
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From the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain shocks to rising inflation and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, governments and businesses around the world are attempting to tackle and solve major crises — many of them interlinked — on multiple fronts. Against this challenging backdrop, energy markets have been roiled, with gas and oil prices surging and
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Before billionaire investor Ray Dalio built the world’s largest hedge fund, he went broke. On a recent episode of actor Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Dalio said he nearly tanked hedge fund Bridgewater Associates less than 10 years into running it: After incorrectly predicting that the world market would crash in 1982, Dalio lost investors,
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