In a few days the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly jobs situation report for February. This segment of What’s Ahead reveals why it shouldn’t be taken as gospel tr...
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Top 7 cybersecurity jobs in high demand
In today’s digital age, cybersecurity has become a critical aspect of almost every business. Cyber threats are increasing daily, and businesses must take proactive measures to protect their networks a...
Burned Out, More Americans Are Turning to Part-Time Jobs
Part-time work is exploding. The number of Americans working part time rose by 1.2 million in December and January compared with the preceding months, according to the Labor Department. Most of that i...
ETF fund manager bets on the robot boom
Artificial intelligence isn’t just a hot topic in Hollywood. While horror robot movie “M3gan” racks up millions at the winter box office, the ETF industry is seeing opportunities fro...
Jim Bianco warns stocks face serious competition
Traditional savings accounts are going up against stocks. And, the winner may be your neighborhood bank for the first time in years, according to Wall Street forecaster Jim Bianco. He contends rising ...
Bernie Sanders Proposes Tax On Robots That Take Jobs Away From Workers
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to members of the press outside the West Wing of the White … [+] House on January 25, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Getty Image...
Boomers, Not Just Gen Z, Want Remote & Flexible Jobs. Here’s Why
older workers flexibility Younger workers and their older compatriots on the job may have a lot of disagreements but in the new post-pandemic world of work there’s one thing they can agree on: work ne...
Infrastructure jobs are booming — but not fast enough to rebuild America
As industries continue trying to fill the labor shortage, infrastructure jobs are in high demand. Yet the projected growth in the infrastructure workforce, which ranges from construction workers to bu...
Close to 70% of US workers plan to leave their jobs in 2023 — with Gen Z, millennials leading the way. 3 tips to successfully carve a new career path this year
Ever since London-based management professor Anthony Klotz coined the term “Great Resignation,” smug bosses and clueless C-suiters have predicted its eventual demise and a return to the days of grovel...
Markets fall on hot economy, chance of 0.5% rate hikes
James Bullard, president of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, at the Jackson Hole economic symposium, in Moran, Wyoming, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images...
Ford to cut 3,800 jobs in Europe in shift to electric vehicle production
Ford F-150 Lightning at the 2022 New York Auto Show. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Automaker Ford on Tuesday said it intends to cut 3,800 jobs in Europe over the next three years to adopt a “leaner” s...
Bad Economic Policies Are One Reason People Are Leaving Blue States
Oct 26, 2019 Mountain View / CA / USA – Semi truck towing an U-Haul cargo trailer, on a freeway in … [+] San Francisco bay area; U-Haul is an American moving equipment and storage rental c...
Fed is not your friend
As Wall Street gears up for key inflation data, Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher believes one thing is clear: “The Fed is not your friend.” He warns Federal Reserve chair J...
AI Hits The Mainstream And January Jobs Report Beats Expectations
NurPhoto via Getty Images TL;DR AI has hit the mainstream in a major way, and Big Tech are tussling for their spot at the top of the pile This week saw Microsoft’s integration of ChatGPT into their Bi...
Here’s where the jobs will be during the rolling recessions
A Now Hiring sign is seen inside a WholeFoods store in New York City. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Recession-like conditions rolling through the U.S. economy are likely to cause more ripples through an otherwi...
Top Retail Jobs Are Going Begging. Boards Have Nobody To Blame But Themselves.
“The time to start looking for a CEO replacement is when the new CEO starts the job,” said John … [+] Long, Korn Ferry. getty Ever since the pandemic, retailers’ lack of staffers to operate the ...
The latest jobs report was red-hot, but ominous LinkedIn data tells a different story about the economy
Despite layoffs and hiring freezes at Big Tech firms including Amazon and Meta, the labor market has proved to be incredibly resilient. The U.S. economy added 517,000 jobs last month, topping economis...
Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. Nelson Peltz Declares Victory.
Walt Disney stock jumped after the entertainment company topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney (ticker: DIS) reported n...
Disney Will Reinstate Dividends, Cut 7,000 Jobs As Bob Iger Hones In On Bottom Line
Topline Disney CEO Bob Iger outlined his plan to turn around the entertainment behemoth in the first quarterly earnings call since his return, laying out a plan to save $5.5 billion by eliminating abo...
Affirm Stock Drops. Company Slashes 19% of Jobs After Earnings Miss.
Affirm Holdings, a buy-now, pay-later fintech, is slashing 19% of its workforce after missing expectations for both its second fiscal quarter and its immediate outlook. Founder and CEO Max Levchin sai...
Crypto Prices Choppy as Fed Chair Powell Warns Strong Jobs Market Could Mean Higher Rates
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage What – Major cryptocurrency prices saw two-way volatility in wake of a speech from US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell wher...
Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. The Stock Jumps.
Walt Disney stock jumped on Wednesday after the entertainment giant topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney reported non-...
No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.
Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressi...
We asked ChatGPT which jobs it thinks it will replace—and it’s not good news for data entry professionals or reporters
The ChatGPT fear is real. The A.I. is already outstripping human candidates on job applications and top economists have said it will take over half the jobs in the U.S., while lowering the wages of th...
6 Jobs Artificial Intelligence Is Already Replacing and How Investors Can Capitalize on It
It’s no secret artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced — so much so that it’s already replacing human workers. While most people don’t need to worry about their jobs being replaced in the short term...
The economist who predicted that A.I. would replace half of all U.S. jobs now says ChatGPT is the equivalent of Uber disrupting the taxi industry—and it could lead to lower wages
ChatGPT has been the talk of the town since it was launched in November. While the underlying technology isn’t new, artificial intelligence like this has never been so accessible to the public, and th...