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Here’s a breakdown of most in-demand skills for 2020—in finance, marketing, sales and engineering

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 04:00:00 -0500

There’s a strong demand for advanced tech skills in the workforce, and that demand won’t be slowing down any time soon. That’s according to Udemy’s 2020 Workplace Learning Trends Report, which indicates...

10 principles for great leadership, according to Disney’s CEO

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 04:00:00 -0400

He now makes $66 million a year as the CEO of Disney, but Bob Iger’s rise to the top wasn’t exactly easy. The Long Island native had to work odd jobs starting at the age of 13 to help support himself. As a teenager...

Jeff Bezos sells $1.8 billion worth of Amazon stock in three days

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 01:00:00 -0400

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than $1.8 billion worth of shares in the company in the final three days of July, new federal filings show.

The sale marked Bezos’ first since October of last year, when he sold $33 million worth of stock, according to forms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This time...

Southwest Airlines yanks Boeing 737 Max from schedules through early November with no end in sight to grounding

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:22:00 -0400

Uncertainty over when regulators will allow the Boeing 737 Max to fly again following two deadly crashes prompted Southwest Airlines, the largest U.S. operator of the jets, to remove them from its schedules through early November - a month longer than it estimated in late June.

Southwest’s move follows...

A key manufacturing gauge just saw its biggest one-month decline in 18 years

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:00:00 -0400

A closely followed gauge of manufacturing in the New York area fell this month to its lowest level in nearly three years.

The Empire State Manufacturing Index tumbled to a...

The 5 books Bill Gates recommends you read this summer

Thu, 23 May 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates released his annual summer book list on Monday. The underlying theme is “upheaval,” he writes on his blog, Gates Notes, “whether it’s the Soviet Union right after...

These stocks are the biggest winners in the market’s incredible rebound back to a record

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Stocks have come all the way back to a record, ending one of their fastest and fiercest round trips in history. Here are the front-runners in this epic comeback.

Strong earnings pushed the S&P 500 to a record close Tuesday. The index surged nearly...

Too many stock market investors are ignoring an ominous signal in the bond pits, investor Peter Boockvar warns

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0400

Investor Peter Boockvar sees two narratives gripping the market, and one could send investors running for cover.

While the stock market is suggesting an economic and earnings slowdown is temporary, the Bleakley Advisory Group chief investment officer believes...

These 10 jobs have the largest and smallest pay gaps between men and women

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Wall Street has a long way to go to close its pay gap — but it’s not alone.

Of the 10 occupations with the largest pay gap between men and women, four are in the finance industry. That’s according to...

US tech still has a pay discrimination problem, research shows

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:00:00 -0400

More than half of women in the U.S. tech sector are being paid less than their male counterparts, new research revealed on Thursday.

According to a report from San Francisco-based recruitment firm Hired, in 60 percent of cases women are being offered lower salaries than men for the same role at the same company. This compares to...

Warren Buffett on managing people: Find the ‘.400 hitters’ and don’t tell them how to swing

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:00:00 -0500

Billionaire Warren Buffett’s instinct on picking strong stocks may make him the Oracle of Omaha, but he knows when to let others take the lead.

Buffett and business partner Charlie Munger described their management style at conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway in this way...

15 years ago, Google's CEO had a brilliant response to a tricky interview question – and it helped him get hired

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 02:00:00 -0500

When it comes to job interviews, we all want to give answers that make us stand out from the rest of the candidates. That means knowing how to answer each question, including the tricky ones designed to stump you.

But what if you don't know the answer to a question?...

These Two Men Paid Over $650,000 For Lunch With Warren Buffett-Here Are 3 Things They Learned

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 05:36:00 -0500

The average American spends just over $1,000 a year getting lunch at restaurants. But investors Guy Spier, 52, and Mohnish Pabrai, 53, spent $650,100 on just one lunch, although it was for a very special reason: They got to dine with billionaire Warren Buffett. The businessmen purchased their high-priced lunch in 2007 as part of an annual charity auction for Glide Foundation, which helps the homeless and impoverished get back on their feet. Last year...

Investors Own More Technology Stocks Now Than They Have In At Least 9 Years

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:03:38 -0400

Money managers are more heavily invested in technology stocks than they have been in at least nine years, a survey of portfolios shows. "[Fund] managers appeared to have doubled-down on their winners," increasing exposure to technology-related stocks in portfolios by more than 14 percent for the year-to-date period, according to a new report from...

Industrial Production Climbed In March, While Manufacturing Output Dropped Unexpectedly: Fed Report

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:18:53 -0400

Overall U.S. industrial production rose 0.5 percent in March because of an 8.6 percent weather-driven surge in utilities generation, the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday. That was the largest increase in utilities output on record, which resulted from...

How Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk And 13 Other Leaders Start The Day

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:39:25 -0400

If you want to be a billionaire, try living like one. Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, drinks green tea twice a day and exercises fanatically. Jeff Bezos, the chairman and CEO of Amazon, sleeps eight hours a night. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, often skips breakfast. Oprah Winfrey meditates. This is all according to...

Warren Buffett's 9 Rules For Running A Business

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:51:44 -0500

Warren Buffett is legendary as an investor, but he's also an incredibly successful businessperson, too-a fact that sometimes gets lost in the millions of words that have been written about his advice on how to buy a stock. That advice can be summarized with a just a few words. Appearing on the CNBC-produced syndicated program "On the Money" last month, Buffett said, "If you own your stocks as an investment-just like you'd own an apartment, house or a farm-look at them as a business." Using that viewpoint,...