Gabbard, Kucinich aim to disrupt two-party voting system at Independent confab
Two former Democratic presidential candidates, Tulsi Gabbard of the 2020 race — and former longtime Ohio politician Dennis Kucinich, a 2004 and 2008 early contender for the White House — will headline the second-ever Independent National Convention (INC) this spring in Austin, Texas. It’s an event intentionally set during a non-election year because organizers argue […]
The next few days may reveal whether investors have been riding one big suckers rally, says this strategist.
Stock futures are pointing due south as caution grips investors following Friday’s monster jobs beat. While subject to revisions, that 517,000 surge in U.S. jobs may have shredded hopes among some that the Fed will be done with rate hikes sooner rather than later. “Half a million jobs, climb down off the wall, call the recession […]
‘I always say yes’: How can I deal with aggressive salespeople? I’ve spent a fortune on gym classes. I even told a job interviewer I had no other offers. Help!
I am a 31-year-old man, not yet married, earning decent money and have no great financial burden in my family. I have learned from your replies to others that many money problems are not only about the numbers — income, rate of return or which stock to buy and when — but also about our […]
Opinion: Apple offers breadcrumbs for a forecast, but is that enough to reassure Wall Street?
Apple Inc.’s breadcrumbs lead back to a familiar place: The iPhone is all that matters. After posting its largest revenue decline in more than six years — led by underwhelming iPhone sales — in its fiscal first-quarter earnings report Thursday, Apple once again refused to provide a traditional forecast for the coming quarter or year. […]
This trader nailed two big market calls in 2022. She says investors are ‘being paid to wait’ so should steer clear of stocks for 2023.
Ahead of major tech earnings, Meta results are ready to light up the Nasdaq Composite COMP for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX is also pointing to gains as investors take a glass-half full view of the Fed meeting. Worried that investors are in the clutches of another Fed misread is the founder of LaDucTrading.com, Samantha LaDuc. “The […]
U.S. may cut off China’s Huawei entirely from U.S. suppliers
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering entirely cutting off Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. from U.S. suppliers over national-security concerns by tightening export controls targeting the firm, according to people familiar with the matter. The move — should the administration move forward — would mark the latest salvo in the high-stakes clash between the world’s two largest economies as U.S. […]
It’s a key week for the stock market. If you’re not nervous, you should be, this global strategist warns.
Investors have got the jitters as a big week unfolds — several central bank meetings including the Fed, earnings from Apple and Amazon.com, and jobs data. Yikes.Any investor out there who isn’t nervous, perhaps should recheck his gut, says our call of the day, from Standard Chartered’s global head of research, Eric Robertsen. “We do […]
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google face earnings test amid Big Tech layoffs
In the biggest week of the holiday-earnings season, Big Tech results will receive the spotlight amid thousands of layoffs that could only be the beginning.After tech stocks were decimated in 2022, investors will be looking for signs of a turnaround in holiday reports and potential forecasts for the year ahead from three of 2022’s top […]
‘As he reminds me, it’s not his house’: My boyfriend lives in my house with my 2 kids, but refuses to pay rent or contribute to food and utility bills. What’s my next move?
Dear Quentin, My boyfriend and I come from completely different backgrounds. I am in my mid-30s and he is 40. We both own our own homes, and had a life built prior to meeting. We have now been together for five years and we have lived only at my house for the last 2.5 years. […]
More than 68,000 global tech-sector employees have lost jobs in 2023: layoff-data tracker
More than 68,000 global technology sector employees have been laid off in the first few weeks of 2023, according to data compiled by the website Layoffs.fyi. The website’s tally of global tech layoffs in 2023 has more than doubled since last week, when it recorded just over 25,000 layoffs. The data suggest 2023 is on […]