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☆ Half of American workers support a ban on talking politics in the office
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Office politics have always been a point of frustration for workers, but now it's politics in the office that's getting to many American workers. In an era during which more workers have felt emboldened to challenge bosses over politics — with the recent Google worker protests and arrests a prime example — just under half of American workers polled by CNBC and SurveyMonkey say they would support a ban on political conversations at work. Younger workers show less hesitancy toward political discussions, with 41% of Gen Z workers saying they would choose to bar any political discussions at work. That's lower than millennial workers (46%), Gen X workers (52%), and boomers (49%). The CNBC | SurveyMonkey online poll was conducted April 3-5 among a national sample of 5,993 workers in the United States.

Persons: Lara Belonogoff Organizations: Google, CNBC, SurveyMonkey, Survey, Columbia University Locations: Google's San Francisco, Gaza, San Francisco , California, United States, Israel

☆ Former Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren: Expect the core PCE index to continue trending downward
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren: Expect the core PCE index to continue trending downwardFormer Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the Fed's inflation fight, state of the U.S. economy, interest rate path outlook, and more.

Persons: Eric Rosengren Organizations: Former Boston Fed, Boston Fed Locations: U.S

☆ A 'deeply misguided' political belief is weakening the economy, says Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"Child care is core to enabling women to work," she said. She explained that if she stayed in her career, her entire post-tax pay would have gone to child care, and all of the child care providers in her area were waitlisted. I didn't really go through this, so how many people are really thinking child care is an issue? "If you want a strong economy, women have to participate and in order for that to happen, we need strong child care," she said. Raimondo noted that half of Americans live in a "child care desert," with not enough services available at a cost that is affordable.

Persons: Gina Raimondo, Joe Biden, Raimondo, —, CNBC's Sara Eisen, Jessica Chang, Chang, CNBC's Julia Boorstin, We've, it's Organizations: Semiconductors, America, White, Capitol, U.S, Samsung, CNBC's, Changemakers, U.S . Army, CNBC Changemakers, Boston Consulting Group, U.S . Chamber of Commerce, Commerce Department Locations: WASHINGTON, DC, Washington ,, Rhode, U.S, Texas, Korean, New York City, Korea

☆ Decline in average hourly earnings is positive for rate cuts, says Fmr. Boston Fed President
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDecline in average hourly earnings is positive for rate cuts, says Fmr. Boston Fed PresidentEric Rosengren, Former Boston Fed president, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to discuss the March jobs report and its impact on Fed policy moving forward.

Persons: Eric Rosengren Organizations: Boston Fed

☆ EV charging for the U.S. freight trucking market is starting to scale
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Einride plans to open many EV charging stations for freight trucking on the West and East coasts, though California is the only state in which there are any EV freight charging stations of scale today. Voltera, which develops, owns and operates EV infrastructure, said the site was permitted, built, electrified and operational in under 18 months. "In the world of charging infrastructure, that's pretty remarkable," its CEO Matt Horton said in a statement. One of the first EV charging stations of scale for freight trucks is opening near the major ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, as the trucking market takes some limited, but significant steps to build the infrastructure required for a long-term transition to EV trucking and net-zero shipping. Additional EV charging projects at ports in New York and New Jersey, as well as the Pacific Northwest, are planned.

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☆ WeightWatchers CEO just sent an internal memo to employees as stock crashes, amid debt concerns, Oprah exit
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

But since then WW shares have suffered heavy selling, dropping to a new 52-week low on Thursday. The stock, due to its debt load and short interest, as well as the general anxiety about the impact of the new weight loss drugs, is subject to heightened volatility. In the memo, Sistani told employees she wanted "to take a moment to address some of the breathless media coverage." WW shares closed at $1.87 on Thursday. It noted that WW was among companies from the weight loss industry involved in the TV event.

Persons: Oprah Winfrey, Sistani, Eli Lilly, Sima Sistani, Guggenheim, Oprah, Winfrey Organizations: CNBC, Nordisk, Guggenheim Partners, Guggenheim, WeightWatchers Clinic, FDA, WeightWatchers, National Museum of, ABC

☆ Top CFOs are as bullish on the Dow and as dovish on the Fed as they've been in a long time: CNBC survey
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

That's according to the CNBC CFO Council Survey for the first quarter, which shows a dramatic year-over-year change in the view from CFOs about the Federal Reserve's inflation battle. The percentage of CFOs who think the Fed will be able to achieve a soft landing has reached a five-quarter high, at 48%. According to the Q1 survey, the largest percentage of CFO respondents (44%) do not expect a rate cut until September. In the Q1 CFO survey, equal groups of just under 25% of CFO respondents think the cuts will begin in June or July. Despite CFOs expecting a slower moving Fed than traders, the latest quarterly view represents an increase in dovish expectations.

Persons: CFOs Organizations: CNBC, Survey, CPI Locations: U.S, CFOs

☆ Former Boston Fed Pres. Eric Rosengren: The Fed should be 'forecast dependent', not data dependent
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Boston Fed Pres. Eric Rosengren: The Fed should be 'forecast dependent', not data dependentFormer Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the February CPI inflation data, what it means for the Fed's interest rate outlook, and more.

Persons: Former Boston Fed Pres, Eric Rosengren Organizations: Former Boston Fed, Boston Fed

☆ Thinking about taking new weight loss drugs? These are the big health risk decisions that will follow
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

In this article NOVO.B-DKLLYWWGWW Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTAn injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City, U.S., December 11, 2023. But will Americans trust the most iconic brand in the legacy weight-loss business to guide them into its future? "Big pharma was coming for weight loss, and if they didn't have a clinical angle, they would have run the risk of becoming an irrelevant company." "This is a new, incredibly powerful and effective class of pharmaceuticals that a lot of people will find help improve their health." watch nowRisks of overreliance on obesity drugs The risk is real that providers may use the medications and "forget about lifestyle," said John Batsis, an associate professor and nutrition expert at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's school of public health.

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☆ Bond rates will probably come down, but not dramatically, says Fmr. Boston Fed President
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBond rates will probably come down, but not dramatically, says Fmr. Boston Fed PresidentEric Rosengren, Former Boston Fed president, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk the FOMC's next move, what's in store for the bond market, the state of the economy and more.

Persons: Eric Rosengren Organizations: Boston Fed

The state Supreme Court's brief order Tuesday shutting down the suit said legislators have fulfilled promises of annual increases in aid to the state's 286 local school districts as outlined in a 2019 law. But closing the case gives the Legislature more leeway on school funding issues in the short term. Educators who feel legislators aren't providing enough money or distributing it fairly enough were able to take their complaints directly to the state Supreme Court while the case was open. Four school districts sued the state in 2010, and the Supreme Court issued seven rulings from 2010 to 2019. The first six told lawmakers that they needed to increase spending or distribute the money more fairly or both.

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☆ Hewlett Packard Enterprise tops the 2024 JUST 100 list with market-leading worker benefits
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Antonio Neri, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, at the NYSE, Oct. 19, 2023 Source: NYSETechnology stocks have taken back the No. 1 spot in the JUST 100, an annual ranking of large public companies on issues of key importance to the American public, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise topping last year's No. Career advancement opportunities, worker training and development, benefits and retention are other issues which helped push HPE and other companies higher in the 2024 JUST 100 rankings. All of these issues, Whittaker said, "cluster all around the questions of 'How good am I as an employer?'" Whittaker said that's also the case with the key worker issues that are the most heavily weighted in the rankings.

Persons: Antonio Neri, HPE, Martin Whittaker, Paul Tudor Jones, It's, it's, Whittaker, Kristin Major, we've, Russell, Major, that's Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NYSE, NYSE Technology, of America, Capital, Just, Just Capital, Apple, Microsoft, Citigroup, Elevance, Devices, Micron Technology

(Both men already hold sizable amounts of Alibaba stock.) Alibaba itself bought back $9.5 billion worth of stock last year, reducing its share count by over 3 percent. The stock purchases will probably bring attention back to Ma, a former English teacher who helped start Alibaba as an e-commerce platform. Ma, who hasn’t held a management role at Alibaba or Ant in years but remains a lifetime partner in the Alibaba Partnership, now largely focuses on Bill Gates-style philanthropy. And she’s expected to take swipes at Trump’s economic record as president.

Persons: Tsai, Ma, Alibaba, Ant, hasn’t, Bill Gates, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump, Eric Rosengren, Robert Kaplan, Kaplan, Rosengren, Archer, Daniels, Vikram Luthar, Scott Stuber, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, Stuber, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s, Bela Bajaria, Biden’s, Janet Yellen, Lael Brainard, they’re, Biden, ” Ray Fair Organizations: Pool Management, Alibaba, Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, Nets, Boston Fed, Dallas Fed, Republican, Biden, Yale, Times Locations: U.S, Hong Kong, China, Ma, Beijing, ’, Paris, New Hampshire, Dixville

☆ Watchdog report is critical of former Fed officials in stock trading controversy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A watchdog review into market trading from two former high-ranking Federal Reserve officials criticizes their actions but does not accuse either of doing anything illegal. Revelations showed that some Fed officials engaged in market trading at a time when they also were considering important and delicate policy matters in the early days of the Covid pandemic in 2020. The report concludes that their actions resulted in conflicts of interest that raised issues over impartiality and the proper conduct of central bank officials. On Kaplan, the report states that the OIG "did not find that his trading activities violated laws, rules, regulations, or policies related to trading activities as investigated by our office." Since the controversy, the Fed has revamped its trading rules and now prohibits officials from owning stocks, bonds and cryptocurrencies.

Persons: Robert Kaplan, Eric Rosengren, — Kaplan, Jerome Powell, Richard Clarida, Raphael Bostic, Clarida, Kaplan Organizations: Eccles Federal, Federal, Fed's, Dallas, Atlanta Fed, Fed, Kaplan, CNBC, Federal Reserve, Dallas Fed Locations: Washington , DC, Boston, U.S

☆ For Microsoft and OpenAI, after a year in the 'hype cycle,' the Copilot corporate spending boom is just getting started
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-20 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

While another third (32%) said they have not made the spending decision, only 13% said they would not be acquiring similar gen AI capabilities. Microsoft has pointed to customers including Visa, BP, Honda and Pfizer using Copilot, and professional services firm partners on Copilot AI including Accenture, EY, KPMG, and PwC. And even amid the hype, it's important to keep in mind that as gen AI spending grows, it is still dwarfed by companies' cybersecurity budget needs. That means roughly $5 will be spent on security for every dollar spent on gen AI. But it's growing, and for now at least, when it comes to the billions in gen AI spending, Microsoft is in the pole position.

Persons: Dan Ives, Google Bard, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Altman, Jason Wong, Wong, Joe Atkinson, That's, Copilot, It's, Gartner, it's, Will, John Lovelock Organizations: Microsoft, Wedbush Securities, " Enterprises, Google, CNBC Technology, Survey, Gartner, Visa, BP, Honda, Pfizer, Accenture, EY, KPMG, CNBC, CNBC TEC, SAP, Adobe, Amazon Web, Meta, SharePoint Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Copilot, Salesforce, that's

☆ A signal from big companies they think workers are losing control of the job market
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Unemployment has ticked up, wage growth continues to decline, and the "quits rate" has leveled off from its pandemic surge. The CFO view of the labor market also filters through to their broader view of the economy and markets, which has changed in other considerable ways over the four quarters of surveying by CNBC this year. Almost a year later, the market has rallied on the conviction that inflation has been vanquished and the hikes are finished. But the CFO view of when inflation returns to 2% keeps getting pushed farther out into the future. That's more hawkish than the market, which currently is betting the Fed may start cutting by May.

Persons: CFOs, that's, it's, Jackson Organizations: CNBC, Stone, Nasdaq, PPI, Inflation, Walmart, Dow Jones, Dow, Fed Locations: Detroit, Hollywood, CFOs, it's

☆ The looming office space real estate shortage. Yes, shortage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

You read that right: amid a commercial real estate market across U.S. downtowns being described in apocalyptic terms, CoStar sees a shortage on the horizon, with one key caveat for top companies to bear in mind. CoStar's call of an upcoming office space shortage is predicated on a look at the current data on leasing and construction activity compared to recent market history. They have attracted over 175 million square feet of net new occupancy since the beginning of 2020, an average of 12.7 million square feet per quarter. "Modern, premium office space remains in demand, just as it has historically, even during difficult economic times," said Phil Mobley, national director of office analytics at CoStar Group. Less than 30 million square feet has broken ground in 2023, making this year the lowest for construction starts since 2011.

Persons: Visoot, downtowns, Phil Mobley, Google's, Mobley, Jeff Greene Organizations: CNBC, Google, City, Gas Co, Billionaire Locations: U.S, New, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach

☆ Former Boston Fed Pres. Rosengren: October CPI 'about as good of an outcome' as the Fed could expect
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Boston Fed Pres. Rosengren: October CPI 'about as good of an outcome' as the Fed could expectFormer Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss October's CPI data, the impact on the Fed's inflation fight, whether we've seen the full effects of rate hikes, rate path outlook, and more.

Persons: Rosengren, Eric Rosengren, we've Organizations: Former Boston Fed, Boston Fed

☆ The market thinks the Fed is going to start cutting rates aggressively. Investors could be in for a letdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

While Fed officials haven't indicated how many months in a row it will take of easing inflation data to reach that conclusion, 12-month core CPI has fallen each month since April. The Fed prefers core inflation measures as a better gauge of long-run inflation trends. Traders appear to have more certainty than Fed officials at this point. If correct, that would take the benchmark rate down to a target range of 4.25%-4.5% and would be twice as aggressive as the pace Fed officials penciled in back in September. But pricing of Fed actions can be volatile, and there are two more inflation reports ahead before that meeting.

Persons: Spencer Platt, Lou Crandall, Wrightson ICAP, We're, Crandall, Jerome Powell, haven't, They're, Eric Rosengren Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Getty, Federal Reserve, Labor Department, Boston Fed Locations: New York City, Atlanta

Robo-advisor investment services, such as Wealthfront and Betterment, have exploded in popularity in recent years. Investments are based on high-quality portfoliosMost financial advisors draw on a combination of their own education and experience. Management fees are low and predictableMost financial advisors charge based on a percent of assets under management, or a flat fee. Fee-only advisors are the best human financial advisors for most people, but when a computer handles your investments, you pay a lot less. Robo-advisors shouldn't perform significantly better than a great financial advisor, but not all financial advisors are great.

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☆ Fedex CEO warned of 'worldwide recession' a year ago. Here's what he sees now
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In September 2022, amid weak results that punished its stock, Fedex Raj Subramaniam warned that a "worldwide recession" was in the cards. That hasn't happened, but the Fedex CEO isn't exactly backtracking, and says several of the underlying reasons for his pessimistic call remain in place. "Those are three things negative to our industry and that's what I said," Subramaniam told CNBC's Holland. The Fedex CEO stressed that he made his call "early" so the company could get "significantly more efficient" and come out of a slowing global economy in better shape. Fedex shares have outperformed the market and its chief competitor UPS , which is down nearly 20% this year.

Persons: Fedex Raj Subramaniam, Subramaniam, CNBC's Frank Holland, CNBC's Holland, Brian Cornell Organizations: Fedex, CNBC, Walmart, Target, UPS

☆ Allstate, Allianz invest $265 million in Next Insurance in a big bet on insuretech
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Allstate and Allianz are making a sizable bet on the digital transformation of the commercial insurance market with a $265 million strategic investment in Next Insurance, an insuretech startup focused on the small business market. "There's a massive opportunity with 30 million-plus small business owners in the U.S.," said Guy Goldstein, CEO and co-founder of Next Insurance. The commercial market is a much more complex one to transform digitally compared to personal lines where a generic application can be completed easily online. The small business market specifically is also one where owners often lack insurance expertise and internal finance staff to handle the policy decisions. "It's a $140 billion market but it is extremely fragmented," Goldstein said.

Persons: Guy Goldstein, William Blair, William Blair's, Goldstein Organizations: Allstate, Allianz, Next Insurance, CNBC Locations: U.S

☆ How Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy’ educated Google Bard on how AI can help save the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

You may not know this, but Bill Nye, "The Science Guy," has professional experience overseeing new and potentially dangerous innovations. Still, computer science is not the skill that Nye thinks is the most important for students to learn. We don't want a smaller and smaller fraction of people understanding a more complex world," Nye said. During the conversation with CNBC's Tyler Mathisen at the TEC Summit on AI, CNBC surprised Nye with a series of questions that came from a prompt given to the Google generative AI Bard: What should we ask Bill Nye about AI? Watch the video above to see all of Bill Nye's answers to the AI about how it can help save the world.

Persons: Bill Nye, Guy, Nye, CNBC's Tyler Mathisen, Bard, —, Bill Nye's Organizations: Boeing, CNBC Technology, Summit, TEC, CNBC Locations: New York City

☆ How AI assistants are being positioned for everyday work and school life
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Experts predict the role of hotel concierge is a profession example of where analyzing decades of data and experience can allow an AI assistant to guide human workers to the best decisions. San Francisco was an obvious choice: "This is the epicenter, where all the work is happening," said Vijay Karunamurthy, Field CTO at Scale AI, which plays a key role in providing the data to AI companies whose large language models need to advance their exponential learning. "A couple of square blocks around our office in Mission, you have OpenAI, Google, Meta… pretty much everyone is flocking here. 1 predictor of success in a higher education program is the removal of life barriers. "A model that understands where you are in your journey and can understand those challenges and relate."

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☆ Fed has yet to face final reckoning two years after trading scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Michael S. Derby | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

But at the regional level, the IG has yet to weigh in on the trading activities of Rosengren, Kaplan and current Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic. Both Rosengren and Kaplan have said they followed the Fed rules that governed trading at the time, and their disclosures were approved by Fed lawyers. Conti-Brown praised the central bank's new ethics regime as likely the best in government, which he said casts the IG's work in an even worse light. They have proposed legislation that would make the Fed IG position a presidential appointment requiring confirmation by the Senate, something Bialek has publicly opposed. During a hearing in the Senate in May, Bialek said the Fed had never interfered in his work.

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