Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing will temporarily furlough thousands of U.S. executives, managers and other staff, citing the ongoing machinist strike as the company races to preserve cash, CEO … Read more
An Amazon warehouse. Getty Images Amazon announced Wednesday it is raising wages for its hourly warehouse workers and adding a new employee perk that will give them a Prime subscription at no extra cost. Beginning this month, Amazon’s average starting pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more … Read more
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters JPMorgan Chase has created a new global role overseeing all junior bankers in an … Read more
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 12, 2024. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images More than 100 Republican former lawmakers and officials endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, while warning that their own party’s candidate, former … Read more
iPhone 16 Pro Apple Inc. Apple’s iPhone 16 family of phones will hit shelves on Friday. Ahead of their launch, I’ve spent the past five days been testing the high-end iPhone 16 Pro Max. It’s a great phone with cool updates like a dedicated camera button, and it charges faster over MagSafe than earlier Pro … Read more
A home with a “Sold” sign from a real estate company in North Patchogue, New York. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images Mortgage rates came down again last week, and with the expectation that they could fall further, mortgage demand suddenly jumped, especially for refinancing. The Federal Reserve is expected to make its first … Read more
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses members of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 17, 2024. Piroschka Van De Wouw | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday laid out how her economic proposals could specifically help young Black men, a key Democratic voting bloc … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris, left, at the White House, Washington, July 22, 2024, and former President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, Aug. 15, 2024. Nathan Howard | Jeenah Moon | Reuters For the first time in the 2024 election cycle, Vice President Kamala Harris is viewed as more likely than former President Donald Trump to … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft and BlackRock are part of a group of companies collaborating to pull together up to $100 billion to develop data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power … Read more
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 rocket sits on Launch Complex 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as it is prepared for another attempt to liftoff in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sept. 9, 2024. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Elon Musk said SpaceX will sue the Federal Aviation Administration for “regulatory overreach” after the agency planned … Read more