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Staffing firms confront hiring difficulties in NC. Are unemployment benefits to blame?
Gov. Roy Cooper extended unemployment benefits in early July after vetoing a Republican bill to cut them off, which some ...
Staffing firms confront hiring difficulties in NC. Are unemployment benefits to blame?
Gov. Roy Cooper extended unemployment benefits in early July after vetoing a Republican bill to cut them off, which some ...
How much junior investment bankers are getting paid at 12 Wall Street banks after a frenzy of salary hikes
Here’s the lasted investment banker pay by level at different Wall Street banks. Samantha Lee/Insider Many Wall Street firms have ...
AOC was afraid she was going to be raped during the Capitol siege: ‘I didn’t think I was just going to be killed’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images AOC told CNN that she was afraid she was going to be raped during ...
Tesla has 22% upside from current levels as earnings start to accelerate, says Jefferies in an upgrade to ‘buy’
Aly Song/Reuters Tesla shares could rise by another 22% over the next 12 months as earnings-growth accelerates, says Jefferies. The ...
The US head of crypto exchange Binance left after just 3 months in his role
Brian Brooks CoinDesk/YouTube Brian Brooks resigned from his position as CEO of Binance US after just three months in the ...
The US economy keeps setting new records for job openings
People walk by a Help Wanted sign in the Queens borough of New York City on June 04, 2021 in ...
Amazon sellers are begging people to delete negative reviews, offering refunds more than twice the price of the original item, a report says
Amazon founder and chair Jeff Bezos. AP Photo/Charles Krupa Some Amazon sellers beg people who leave bad reviews to take ...
Oil prices slide as much as 4.5% as the Delta coronavirus variant outbreak threatens the global recovery
Oil prices have risen strongly in 2021 but have taken a hit in recent days. Ken Cedeno/Getty Images Oil prices ...
Bill Gates transferred another $2 billion worth of stock to Melinda, taking total transfers since their divorce announcement to about $6 billion
Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates. Frederic Stevens/Getty Bill Gates transferred more than $2 billion worth of stock to Melinda ...
Gold and silver claw back losses after Friday’s stellar jobs report ignited concerns over tighter Fed policy and unleashed a ‘flash crash’
Reuters Gold and silver were recovering somewhat on Monday from a flash crash in Asia trading session. Gold fell as ...
Pizza Hut is building an AI that it says will recommend food to you based on your local weather
Pizza Hut is trying to develop its own AI technology to recommend food orders to customers based on the weather. ...
The amount of warming that world leaders collectively agreed to avoid? It’s inevitable in the next 20 years, a new report shows.
The Dixie Fire torches homes in Indian Falls, California, on July 25, 2021. Reuters/Newsflare In the Paris climate agreement, world ...
Climate-related changes to Earth’s ice and oceans are now ‘irreversible for centuries to millennia,’ a new report says
A 2-year-old sits on a bench at Kali Adem port, north of Jakarta, Indonesia, amid high tides due to rising ...
Luxury fashion houses Louis Vuitton and Burberry dive into the world of NFTs and online gaming
Sharky B Burberry Luxury fashion houses Burberry and Louis Vuitton are turning to NFTs and gaming to promote their brands. ...
Arizona AG opens investigation into Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ objections to new election audit subpoenas
Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 ...
In a blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis, a judge ruled cruise giant Norwegian can require vaccine passports in Florida
Norwegian Cruise Line A judge ruled in favor of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in its fights against Florida’s vaccine passport ...
Top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa resigns
Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa listens as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters during a news conference, ...
Melania Trump hit back at a presidential historian who accused her of ‘eviscerating’ the White House Rose Garden
A photo of the White House Rose Garden shared by first lady Jill Biden in May. Jill Biden @FLOTUS via ...
Robinhood gets paid for each trade on its platform. Regulators are skeptical of the practice, but what retail traders think is more complicated.
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Robinhood offers free trading to customers because much of its revenue is derived from a ...
Former FDA commissioner says northern states may see a rise in cases as infections will likely ‘start to collide with the opening of school’
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the FDA. Drew Angerer/Getty Images A former FDA commissioner warned the school year could ...
Bitcoin to $250,000, plus secrets from a market wizard
Hello and welcome to Insider Investing. I’m Joe Ciolli, and I’m here to guide you through the current market and ...
AOC, progressive lawmakers call out moderate House Democrats over ‘concerns’ about $3.5 trillion reconciliation package
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill after it was announced that the Biden administration ...
Inside the Senate’s sudden cryptocurrency showdown holding up the Biden infrastructure bill
Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Warner of Virginia. Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images; Drew Angerer/Getty Images Two bipartisan Senate ...
Stalled Johnston County food hall brings in a national operator to open and run it
The long-delayed food hall aims to turn a former warehouse off Interstate 95 into a dining destination. Powered by WPeMatico
Stalled Johnston County food hall brings in a national operator to open and run it
The long-delayed food hall aims to turn a former warehouse off Interstate 95 into a dining destination. Powered by WPeMatico
Dr. Fauci said the unvaccinated should think of their ‘community’ because allowing COVID-19 to spread and mutate could create variant ‘more problematic than the Delta’
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool Dr. Anthony Fauci ...
Some anti-vaxxers plan to fake being vegan after finding a loophole that means vaccines are not mandatory for them
Rally goers hold signs protesting vaccines at the “World Wide Rally for Freedom”, an anti-mask and anti-vaccine rally, at the ...
Healthy nightclub manager who rejected the vaccine because it was too ‘experimental’ died from COVID-19 weeks later
Mario Tama/Getty Images David Parker, 56, rejected the COVID-19 vaccine as he said it was experimental. Desipite having no underlying ...
Top execs from Morgan Stanley, Mastercard, and United Airlines dish on their 5 summer reading recommendations about everything from social media algorithms to Winston Churchill
Looking for a good book to dive into this summer? McKinsey asked execs from Wall Street and corporate America for ...
