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cxenseparse_start A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.(Photo: Ben Margot, AP) Amazon and Facebook continued to rise up the world’s most valuable companies list on Friday, passing Exxon Mobil in market cap in morning trading. At the beginning of trading the retail giant and social networking behemoth quickly jumped ahead of Exxon, which was…
Nintendo Co. shares plunged by the most since 1990 after the company said late Friday that the financial benefits from the worldwide hit Pokemon Go will be limited. The stock sank 18 percent to 23,220 yen at the close in Tokyo, the maximum one-day move allowed by the exchange, wiping out 708 billion yen ($6.7…
For an idea of how a presidential election will go, you could do a lot worse than look at the stock market. It has a record of prescience that is hard to exaggerate. Since 1928, U.S. equities have correctly signaled who will win, incumbent or challenger, 19 out of 22 times, data compiled by Strategas Research…
Section 1 of 3 [00:00:00 – 00:14:05] (NOTE: speaker names may be different in each section) Al Letson: From the center of investigative reporting in PRX, this is revealed an outlet. Jessie: This is considered the northeast, Mayfair section actually, it’s nice and-[crosstalk 00:00:18] Al Letson: Jessie Suren is a 28 year old college grad….
Companies need to be aware of — and take action to mitigate — pay inequity in the hiring process. advertisement Gender and racial inequality in pay is making headlines these days, and many companies are moving to eradicate it. One major and often unrecognized obstacle companies face is a less-than-robust understanding of the role of…
Philip Hammond MP. Photo: Oli Scarff Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries that cut spending, economic growth was seriously damaged 14 Jul 2016, by Geoff Tily in Economics Since 2010, under the direction of international organisations and most economists, governments across the world have cut spending in order to restore public finances…
(1) Nerdy Childhood Pursuit Almost every conversation I have with an engineer starts with “oh I started coding when I was 10.” We think that people don’t really love technology unless they found it themselves in a garage. Well, I can tell you about using Perl when I was 10. And I can tell you…
A two-day rally for Nintendo has lifted the company’s market value by 718 billion yen, or $7.1 billion. The surge began Friday after the debut of a new mobile game app, Pokemon Go, and accelerated Monday with the shares rising by the daily limit of 25 percent in Tokyo. Watch Next: Nintendo’s Pokemon Game Tops App…
Overseas buyers are now retreating from the US home market, thanks to slackening world economies, higher home prices, and a strong dollar. This week the National Association of Realtors released its annual report on international buying. It found that together, resident and non-resident foreigners invested $102.6 billion in the US home market between April 2015…
While the algos have long forgotten about today’s job report whose headline was good enough to unleash an epic buying spree which has pushed the S&P to the highest level since July 2015, a quick read between the lines reveals a continuation of some recent troubling trends, namely that all job gains in recent years…