by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 29, 2021 | Business, Latest News
Morgan Stanley is increasing salaries for its junior investment bankers, making it the latest Wall Street bank to lift pay following complaints about the industry’s gruelling working conditions. Morgan Stanley staff were told on Wednesday that first-year investment...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 22, 2021 | Business, Latest News
Weekly jobless claims unexpected moved higher last week despite hopes that the U.S. labor market is poised for a strong recovery heading into the fall. Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled 419,000 for the week ended July 17, well above the 350,000 Dow...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 22, 2021 | Business, Career Advice
The employees of LendingTree, an online loan marketplace headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, are still working from desks and couches, on patios and in libraries. But rather than doing so remotely, they’re in a corporate office that’s been re-designed to...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 20, 2021 | Business, Latest News
Walmart Inc. lost a federal lawsuit in Wisconsin when a jury sided with a sales associate who has Down syndrome and alleged that the company fired her because of her disability. Marlo Spaeth worked for Walmart for about 16 years before she was fired from its Manitowoc...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 15, 2021 | Business, Latest News
If we love one thing, it is talking about net worth. If we love two things, it is long lists that are broken down by state. Today, courtesy of Personal Capital, we have a marriage of those two things with the average net worth by state. It is worth noting, most people...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 15, 2021 | Business, Latest News
Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin on Thursday revealed that 18-year-old Oliver Daemen will fly in place of the still anonymous $28 million winning bidder of last month’s public auction. Daemen will fly to the edge of space with the Amazon founder, his brother Mark...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 15, 2021 | Business, Latest News
SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Greg Osuri decided he’d had enough of the Bay Area. Between smoke-choked air from nearby wildfires and the coronavirus lockdown, it felt as if the walls of his apartment in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks neighborhood were closing in on him. “It...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Latest News
People working minimum wage jobs full-time cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any state in the country, the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual “Out of Reach” report finds. In 93% of U.S. counties, the same workers can’t afford a modest one-bedroom....
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Latest News
As the financial blow of the pandemic became a reality in the spring of 2020, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. furloughed thousands of workers and eliminated 2,100 corporate positions. The cuts also appeared to hit the C-suite: Chief Executive Christopher Nassetta opted...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 13, 2021 | Business, Latest News
The cost of living leaped in June by the largest amount since 2008 as inflation spread more broadly through the U.S. economy, raising fresh questions about whether the spike in prices will subside as quickly as the Federal Reserve predicts. The consumer price index...
