IT positions have largely been seen as insulated from the job cuts that have hit workers at major technology firms like Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but the Capital One layoffs affecting 1,100 e...
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Retirement may be bad for your brain. Is working longer the solution?
When we retire from our jobs we may be giving up more than staff meetings, desk lunches and a paycheck. The social interaction and mental challenges found through work can be good for our mental healt...
House prices slumped by 10% in San Francisco, Redfin says — and prices are also falling in these cities
Even as mortgage rates come off of recent highs, buyer demand remains constrained. And that’s affecting home-list prices, according to a new report. The report by Redfin RDFN, +8.45%, which tracked ho...
Apple CEO Tim Cook asked for — and got — a major pay cut this year. Is there ever a time when some of us should accept one too? The answer is ‘yes.’
In an SEC filing, Apple announced that CEO Tim Cook will receive a big pay cut in 2023, and the filing noted that he requested the cut. mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The new year is ba...
SmileDirectClub stock rallies on cost cuts, workforce ‘realignment’
Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. rallied after hours on Tuesday after the oral-care company said it planned a round of cost cuts and a “realignment” of its workforce — even as its sales forecasts came u...
Coinbase Stock Is Soaring. It Might Be a Haven in a Wild Crypto Market.
Coinbase Global stock continued its winning streak on Tuesday, rising alongside the price of Bitcoin and on the back of a strong analyst endorsement. Coinbase (ticker: COIN) has already had a busy sta...
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo earnings show the good, the bad and the ugly of people’s finances. So how are they holding up?
Friday’s wave of big-bank earnings gives an important glimpse into Americans’ finances amid high prices, rising interest rates and recession worries. At first glance, most consumers appear to be keepi...
IRS says ‘Tax Day’ will be different this year — put these important tax dates on your calendar
It’s not too early to start thinking about your 2022 income-tax return, if you can bear the thought. That’s because the tax-filing season is scheduled to start on Monday, Jan. 23, the Internal Revenue...
AMD poaches Marvell’s Jean Hu for CFO slot as Devinder Kumar retires
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said late Wednesday that financial chief Devinder Kumar was retiring and that Marvell Technology Inc.’s Jean Hu would take his place. Marvell MRVL, +3.81% announced that Hu...
The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance
We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...
Novavax’s stock rallies after the company names new CEO
Shares of Novavax Inc. NVAX, +11.25% were up about 9% in trading on Monday after the company said John Jacobs will take over as president and CEO on Jan. 23. Jacobs, the former president and CEO of Ha...
Why a stock market obsessed with the Fed’s inflation fight should focus on Main Street jobs in 2023
Fortunes on Wall Street this year could hinge less on what’s happening to high-paid workers in San Francisco’s reeling technology sector and more on a familiar part of American life: the working class...
Cisco layoffs begin with hundreds of job cuts in California and more expected
Cisco Systems Inc. has begun previously announced layoffs, cutting nearly 700 jobs in Silicon Valley last month, according to filings with the state of California this week. Cisco executives announced...
Turning 72 or 73 this year? Here’s what to do about your required minimum distributions
Anyone turning 72 years old in 2023 is getting a birthday present from Congress – one more year to push back their required minimum distributions from their retirement accounts. As part of the Secure...
Fate Therapeutics stocks heads for record selloff after Janssen collaboration terminated and job cuts
Shares of Fate Therapeutics Inc. FATE, -61.18% plunged 56.8% in premarket trading, putting them on track for a record one-day selloff, after the biopharmaceutical company announced the termination of ...
Why this Japanese idea can lead to a more fulfilling retirement
Typical New Year’s resolutions, financially speaking, tend to be things like:” I’ll save more,” “I’ll reduce debt” or “I’ll become smarter about investing.” I’d like to offer a different one for 2023,...
‘2022 has been the scariest year of my adult and professional life’: One mortgage broker reveals how the housing slowdown upended financial security.
When mortgage rates hit 7% in the fall, Austin-based mortgage broker Aaron Kovac was a little spooked. After a stunning rise in home sales amid ultra-low interest rates, “the market just went absolut...
Workers in California and Washington State will get more pay transparency
Do you know how much your job is worth? Millions of Americans are finally getting the answer. Starting Jan. 1, California and Washington state will require employers to include pay ranges with their ...
Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order
Listen to article (2 minutes) Where have all the go-getters gone? At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help c...
Tesla told employees not to complain to managers about pay, labor director alleges
Electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. ran afoul of the law when the company told employees at an office in Florida not to complain to higher-ups about pay or discuss things like hiring, a U.S. labor board...
Democrats release six years of Trump’s tax returns, and CPAs have questions: ‘The personal tax return is just the tip of the iceberg.’
The nonpartisan committee’s findings also raised several red flags related to the filings, namely Trump’s carryover losses, loans to his children that may or may not also be considered taxable gifts, ...
‘I have $30,000 in my savings account’: I’m 56, unemployed and single. I invented products that will cost $20,000 to bring to market. Should I do it?
Dear Quentin, I am a 56-year-old divorced woman who has raised four children as a single parent. I made the decision at a young age to give birth to all of my children, and I was the sole provider for...