Twitter Faces Renewed Questions on Path Ahead as Elon Musk Tries to Abandon Deal

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Strike at Machinery Maker CNH Industrial Grinds On as Talks Stall

Negotiations between CNH Industrial NV and the equipment maker’s striking workers have hit a stalemate, deepening supply-chain problems with farm and construction equipment. Bargaining sessions betwee...

Twitter Didn’t Seek a Sale. Now Elon Musk Doesn’t Want to Buy. Cue Strange Legal Drama.

Elon Musk’s showdown with Twitter has set the stage for what could become one of the most unusual courtroom battles in corporate-takeover history—a spurned acquisition target that never sought to be b...

Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America Jason Alden/Bloomberg Text size Bank of America has emerged as one of the nation’s most resilient banks, thanks to CEO Brian Moynihan’s “responsible growth” stra...

Labor Market Added 372,000 Jobs In June As Layoffs And Recession Fears Grow

Topline The U.S. labor market—one of the economy’s strongest pillars during the pandemic recovery—added back 372,000 jobs in June, performing better than economists projected amid concerns the Federal...

The DOL has a new IRA rollover rule for advisers to follow

IRA rollovers are common, whether they’re from an old 401(k) or just one account to another, but a newly implemented Department of Labor rule says financial advisers suggesting the move have some expl...

U.S. homeownership rate tumbles to 1980s levels

High prices for everything from groceries to gas aren’t the only things making this year feel like a throwback to the 1980s. After almost a decade of gains, homeownership in the U.S. also has slipped ...

Number Of Open Jobs In U.S. Fell In May — Here’s What It Means For The Labor Shortage

Topline Job openings continued to dwindle for the second straight month, while the number of hires and discharges remained steady, according to new data for the month of May from the Bureau of Labor S...

Crude Oil Price Update – Supply Worries Driven by Political Unrest in Libya, Labor Problems in Norway

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures jumped more than 2% on Friday. The new month and quarter began on an up note as political tensions in Libya and labor issues in Norway raised concerns ab...

Here’s how a massive labor shortage and pent-up demand helped create a chaotic summer for airlines

Each holiday weekend this summer has ended in chaos for many travelers facing huge numbers of flight cancellations and delays. July Fourth weekend could likely be more of the same. More flights have a...

Tesla’s Bumpy Quarter Might Be About More Than Lockdowns in China

The smooth acceleration shown by Tesla in the past two years faltered in the second quarter. Chief Executive Elon Musk has offered hints that the problems run deeper than lockdowns in Shanghai. On Sat...

Mark Zuckerberg issues dire economic warning to Meta employees

Mark Zuckerberg has issued a chilling message to Meta Platforms Inc. employees: The company faces one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history” that will necessitate a scaling back in...

Mark Zuckerberg Has an Original Idea to Get Rid of Employees

Times are tough even for the giants of Silicon Valley that are accustomed to big profits. In recent months, the storm on the financial markets has particularly shaken the Nasdaq index, which is domina...

Mark Zuckerberg Makes a Dark Prediction

The mood has changed at the headquarters of Meta Platforms  (META) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Report, parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in Menlo Park, Calif.  The atmosphere is beginnin...

‘I wouldn’t be successful at my job without her’: My friend cleans, cooks and cares for my child. I pay her $50 a day. Am I taking advantage of her?

I’m a working-from-home mom and my supervisors have no intentions of bringing me back to the office at this time. In order to actually get work done, I have pieced together childcare using the help of...

Opinion: Early retirement in 3 steps: Follow the ‘Cashing Out’ couple’s road map to financial freedom

A couple of months ago, our five-year-old son was relieved to find out that he could have two best friends. For weeks he’d been stuck in an innocent adolescent triangle where both kids wanted him to b...

Here’s how much your Social Security check is likely to go up next year

Good news — sort of. If you’re retired or just about to retire, next year’s Social Security checks are likely to see one of the biggest bumps on record as a result of surging consumer prices. The aver...

Novartis Will Cut 8,000 Jobs Under CEO’s Shake-Up Plan

Text size Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday it will lay off more than 7% of its workforce, just a few months after CEO Vas N...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

How IndyCar Is Using PeopleReady To Help Address The Labor Shortage

Josef Newgarden celebrates with the PeopleReady Force for Good Challenge worth $1 million at Road … [+] America. INDYCAR Photo by Joe Skibinski What sets the NTT IndyCar Series apart from other ...

Stock market nosedive, recession and your 401(k). Here’s what to do.

Even some of the most aggressive retirement savers and investors might find themselves a bit nervous these days with talks of a recession and a market downturn, so the best strategy for those in it fo...

Powell says U.S. economy can handle the additional rate hikes that are coming

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday pushed back against economists who argue that aggressive Fed interest-rate hikes have increased the odds of a recession or hard landing for the U.S....

Signs of forced labor found in China’s EV battery supply chain: Report

Hundreds of Uyghurs are working for a mining conglomerate that produces raw materials for electric vehicles as part of a so-called work transfer program in China, the New York Times reported. Shen Lon...

Nearly one-third of older Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement

Many older Americans are willing to work during their retirement years — and they may have to be — because they aren’t financially prepared for their old age.  Almost three in 10 people between 55 and...

Tesla Sued for Employee Layoffs. Musk Calls Suit Trivial.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images Employees laid off by Tesla have sued in response, giving investors in the electric-vehicle company one more issue to worry about. Employment has been on th...

US Labor Department Witnesses Condemnation Over 401(k) Bitcoin Plans

Along with the support from Coinbase and Block, The Crypto Council For Innovation (CCI) is criticizing the US Labor Department due to its previous guidance in March. It warned consumers about the dang...

U.S. Department of Labor Faces Scrutiny on Bitcoin 401(k) Plans

The U.S. Department of Labor is receiving pushback from an industry initiative, requesting it rescind its previous guidance on including crypto in 401(k) plans. The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI)...

I want to retire next year, but I have $25,000 in credit card debt and a major monthly mortgage payment — I also live with my three kids and ex

I’ll be 57 next month and am divorced with three kids living with me. One is 28, she’s working, another is 21 and a senior in college (with a full scholarship) and the youngest is 15 (a sophomore in h...

The Crypto Party Is Over

On Super Bowl Sunday, a Crypto.com ad featuring billionaire NBA star LeBron James lit up millions of Americans’ TVs. “If you want to make history, you gotta call your own shots,” Mr. James said in the...

SpaceX Fires Employees Involved in Letter Critical of Elon Musk, Company

SpaceX fired some employees involved in a letter that criticized Chief Executive Elon Musk and the way the company applies internal rules, according to an email to staff from SpaceX’s president and pe...

SpaceX employees say Elon Musk’s behavior is a ‘distraction and embarrassment’: report

A group of SpaceX employees reportedly wrote a letter to the company’s executives that detailed frustrations over the recent behavior and public statements of the company’s founder and chief executive...

Fed’s biggest rate hike since 1994 means millions more homebuyers may be priced out of the housing market

Pity those first-time house buyers. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to a 1.5% to 1.75% range, the biggest increase since 1994 as it tries t...