Month: August 2022
Rosenblatt’s Barton Crockett breaks down the theme-park trade
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email The Exchange Barton Crockett, Rosenblatt Securities senior analyst, joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss consumer spending with summer travel to theme parks. 04:53 an hour ago Source
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Documents taken in Trump raid included files marked top secret, report says
A member of the Secret Service is seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on August 9, 2022. Giorgio Viera | AFP | Getty Images The FBI seized multiple sets of documents marked top secret from former President Donald Trump’s resort home Mar-a-Lago when agents […]
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Even airline employees are having trouble finding a seat home from Europe this summer
International passengers walk through the arrivals area at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport on November 26, 2021 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Airlines want people to take a European vacation this summer — as along it’s not their employees. Carriers are discouraging their staff from using their employee perks […]
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5.2% of job ads offer a signing bonus — but 8 fields have the most. Here’s how workers can negotiate one
Luis Alvarez | Digitalvision | Getty Images Employers are using signing bonuses at an elevated rate to attract talent — and there are ways workers can capitalize on the trend. A signing bonus is a financial sweetener — often a lump sum of cash — that businesses offer prospective hires. Offers vary widely by company […]
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Toast shares pop as revenue beats estimates and forecast shows more restaurants are going digital
Toast shares jumped 12% Friday after the restaurant software vendor beat revenue estimates and said the number of locations it serves surged 40% in the second quarter. Toast provides technology that can serve as a restaurant’s operating system across dine-in, takeout, and delivery channels. Its products gained rapid adoption during the pandemic as restaurants moved […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Peloton, Toast, Illumina and more
Exercise equipment and apparel for sale at the Peloton showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Peloton — Shares of Peloton jumped 6% after the company told employees it was cutting about 780 jobs, raising prices […]
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Salman Rushdie stabbed in neck in NY attack, ‘Satanic Verses’ scribe airlifted to hospital
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. Joshua Goodman | AP Author Salman Rushdie was attacked while on stage for a panel in western New York Friday. The New York State Police released a statement regarding the incident: […]
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Trump Organization, ex-CFO to face October criminal tax fraud trial in New York
Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg arrives for his arraignment hearing in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., July 1, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters A New York state judge on Friday refused to dismiss criminal tax fraud charges against Donald Trump’s namesake company […]
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DOJ plans to retry Philip Esformes despite Trump commuting sentence of Florida nursing home owner
Philanthropist Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California. Tiffany Rose | Getty Images A highly unusual move by the Justice Department to retry Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes on health-care fraud criminal charges after then-President […]
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Fed’s Barkin says rate increases need to continue until inflation holds at 2%
Despite positive inflation data this week, Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin said Friday that more interest rate increases will be needed to tamp down price pressures. Releases this week showing that consumer and wholesale price increases softened in July were “very welcome,” Barkin told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” in a live interview. “So […]
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