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Wall Street Barber’s Empty Chairs Echo Trading Pits’ Decline
Jack Cappello has groomed Wall Street since 1959. He’s seen a lot of changes in half a century of being a neighborhood barber. ...
Dow Average Caps Biggest Weekly Gain Since 2013 on Oil, Earnings
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted the biggest weekly rally in more than two years, boosted by an improving labor market, rising company...
Oil is falling, and it's all OPEC's fault: BIS
The BIS blames the decision taken by OPEC in November to focus on market share, rather than cutting output, for the collapse in global oil prices.
Why Hollywood is now trying to save film after all its digital trailblazing
The biggest Hollywood studios recently reached a deal with Kodak to continue to supply them with film stock for at least for “a few” more years to make their movies.
Google 'can disrupt car industry'
Technology companies such as Google are unlikely to become mass car manufacturers, even if they have the potential to disrupt an industry increasingly focused on software and automated driving, the head of German carmaker Daimler (DAIGn.DE) has said.
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Do You Have the Habit of Having Habits? Or Do You Fight Habits?
“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”
–Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
How do you feel about habits? Do you fight against them?
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Where is Germany's gold?
Peter Boehringer hates the word “conspiracy.” It implies something crazy, and if you spend even a little time with the 45-year-old German, it becomes clear he’s driven by a desire for order. On a recent morning in Munich, he’s dressed in a cobalt blue shirt that matches his blue tie and blue eyes. His black hair is cropped close above his receded hairline. In his gray Volkswagen minivan, the cup holder contains two identical water bottles, each filled to the same level. At the end of a daylong interview, for which Boehringer has arranged an hour-by-hour itinerary, he sends a follow-up e- mail with a numbered summation of points he’s made. No. 2 says that the crusade he’s been waging for the last three years is simply about transparency. “Questions,” he writes, “by definition cannot be ‘conspiracy theories.’ ”
Schools, cities turn to endowments for college scholarships
For some students, a few thousand dollars stand between them and a college degree.
For kids, TV takes a backseat to gaming
Move over, millennials, kids are once again the top priority for marketers. Thanks to a confluence of factors, children have become the most valuable consumer segment of all.
10 things Starbucks won't tell you
Is Starbucks giving you something you can’t make yourself at home, for less? Unless you crave complicated espresso drinks, probably not.
5 reasons Peak Food is the No. 1 ticking time bomb
We’re poisoning our future, That’s why Cargill, America’s largest private food company, is warning us: about water, seeds, fertilizers, diseases, pesticides, droughts. You name it. Everything impacts the food supply. Wake up America, it’s worse than you think.
Americans are finally seeing something new: Pay raises
As the U.S. economy has steadily recovered from the Great Recession, the critical missing piece has been a painful lack of pay raises for many Americans.
Budweiser campaign highlights rift between Big Beer, craft
Attention die-hard craft beer drinkers: This Bud's not for you. After several years of losing ground to craft brewers, Anheuser-Busch, the country's biggest brewery, seems to be conceding that its flagship brew may not fly with fans of fancy suds.
3 ways money leaks out of your 401(k)
Workers who take early 401(k) withdrawals are typically worse off in retirement.
Why Americans Shrug Off Income Inequality
Americans are an optimistic bunch, and the notion of America as the land of opportunity remains a powerful one in the public’s mind. A new study about opinions of economic mobility by two Cornell psychologists found that most...
Police seize Lamborghini, assets from Brazilian billionaire
Authorities raided billionaire Eike Batista’s mansion in Rio de Janeiro this morning, impounding seven vehicles, his mobile phone and 90,000 reais in cash, among other assets, according to a police spokesman.
4 reasons stocks didn't soar after the stellar jobs report
The S&P 500 and Dow industrials were up only moderately by around midday, then they turned negative in a hurry.
Shippers shut down West Coast ports for weekend
Cargo freighter loading and unloading operations will be suspended at US West Coast Ports this weekend due to continuing chronic slowdowns.
TurboTax stops processing state tax returns on fraud reports
TurboTax, the country's most popular do-it-yourself tax preparation software, halted processing state tax returns for about 24 hours because of a spike in fraudulent filings.State agencies have reported a rise in filings with stolen personal information, Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, said Friday.Most victims found out that a fraudulent tax return was submitted in their name when they received a rejection notice after filing their returns, said Intuit spokeswoman Julie Miller.There haven't been issues with federal returns to date because the Internal Revenue Service has implemented stronger...
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