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☆ Kim Kardashian’s Skims is making bride-to-be Alex Cooper the star of its wedding brand
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Emily Larcher | Special To Cnbc.Com | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 08: Alex Cooper (C) performs a wedding ceremony during "The Unwell Tour" at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 08, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/Getty Images)Kim Kardashian's shapewear label Skims has tapped podcaster Alex Cooper to showcase the brand's latest wedding-themed collection. Kardashian said in a press release that Skims "wanted to announce the Wedding Shop with a real bride-to-be." The bride-to-be has been documenting her own journey in wedding planning — both the highs and lows — across her social media accounts and on her podcast. The network is a subsidiary of Cooper's Trending media venture.

Persons: Alex Cooper, Kim Kardashian's, Cooper, Matt Kaplan, Kardashian, —, Kaplan, influencers, Jens Grede, Skims Organizations: NEW, Madison, Garden, Gotham, Spotify, Gen, Entertainment, Skims, WNBA, NBA, USA, New York Times, Bloomberg Locations: New York City

Gorodenkoff | Istock | Getty ImagesHigh-paying hybrid work is here to stay — or is it? Six-figure hybrid job availability crashed nearly 70% while posts for in-person jobs nearly doubled, according to the Q4 2023 High Paying Jobs report from jobs platform Ladders. Higher income also made workers more likely to start looking for a new position that offers hybrid flexibility, the report states. This disconnect between what employers are offering and what highly paid workers want is causing tension in the return-to-office dance. 'The tragedy of the commons'In the case for hybrid, how are six-figure workers with executive or managerial roles different from individual employees?

Persons: Frank Weishaupt, —, they're, Rick Smith, Johns, Smith Organizations: Istock, Getty, Owl Labs, Employers, Boeing, UPS, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

☆ ‘I don’t want to spend’: How a TikTok comedian’s call for ‘loud budgeting’ can help your wallet
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Victoria Feng | Special To Cnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But he sees the very real financial consequences that influencers and TikTok trends like quiet luxury have, especially on younger consumers. "There was this idea of keeping up with the Joneses," said Daigle, a member of the CNBC Financial Advisor Council. Nearly two-thirds, 62%, of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, according to LendingClub. For loud budgeting to be effective rather than gimmicky, Daigle suggests that people focus on their financial priorities and practice moderation with their spending changes. To help stay on track, she recommends using a budgeting tool like YNAB, also known as You Need a Budget.

Persons: Thomas Barwick, Steven Sierra, Sophia Bera Daigle, That's, I'm, Daigle Organizations: Digitalvision, Getty, Lukas, CNBC, Gen

But in recent quarters, we have witnessed a dramatic shift higher in interest rates, a move that investors should not fear but embrace. In addition to the rise in nominal interest rates, we have also experienced a similar increase in real interest rates (rates adjusted for inflation). Granted, the journey to higher yields has been painful to bond investors. When calculating fixed-income returns for most bonds, there are two components: price return and income return. As an example, the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index posted a price return of -15.3% and an income return of +2.3%.

Persons: Bonds, Taylor Swift Organizations: Istock, Getty, Treasury, Bloomberg, Bond, Federal

How to calculate I bond ratesThe Treasury adjusts I bond rates every May and November, and there are two parts to I bond yields: a variable and fixed portion. The variable rate moves every six months based on inflation, and the Treasury can change the fixed rate every six months, but that doesn't always happen. The variable rate resets every six months starting on the investor's I bond purchase date, not when the Treasury announces new rates. Currently, the variable rate is 3.94% and the fixed rate is 1.30%, for a rounded combined yield of 5.27% on I bonds purchased between Nov. 1 and April 30. However, the headline rate may be different than what you receive because the fixed rate stays the same for the life of your bond.

Persons: Ken Tumin Organizations: U.S . Department of, Treasury

The average interest rate for all credit card accounts hit 20.68% in May, the highest on record, according to most recent Federal Reserve data. "But credit cards do charge the highest interest rates of any mainstream consumer debt [by far]," he wrote in an e-mail. This is why it's so important to prioritize credit card debt payoff." Total credit card debt topped $1 trillion in the second quarter of 2023 for the first time ever. "Whenever the Fed has raised interest rates as they have, something usually tips or fails," he said.

Persons: Barry Glassman, Ted Rossman, Cardholders, Glassman, CreditCards.com, Rossman, Bankrate Organizations: CreditCards.com, Federal Reserve, Wealth, Westend61, Getty, Federal Reserve Bank of New, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank Locations: Vienna , Virginia, North Bethesda , Maryland, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Silicon, U.S

☆ How ChatGPT is changing the job hiring process, from the HR department to coders
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Kevin Travers | Special To Cnbc.Com | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

But how many business leaders are currently using AI tech in day-to-day operations or plan to? Half of the companies ResumeBuilder surveyed in February said they are using ChatGPT; 30% said they plan to do so. Since the survey was completed, more professionals have started using generative AI. There has been a growing concern that generative AI could replace jobs, and perhaps not the ones most expected. On the hiring side, 82% of respondents said they had used generative AI for hiring in a recent ResumeBuilder update.

In this article CTRN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTCommuters exit a Wall Street subway station near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US. Yet, even as layoffs in tech and beyond mount, employees are pushing back against leaders who issue return-to-office mandates. Companies that look to recreate a pre-pandemic way of working are going to be left behind when it comes to keeping and attracting the best talent. At the CFO meeting, she told a majority male group of finance leaders to look around the room. And believe me, if being in the office was going to work to get more women and people of color promoted, it would have happened already.

Text-to-image tools like OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DreamUp can render images in various styles in seconds with a few words of direction. Now those purchasers can use the artist's work without compensating the artist at all," the class-action court filing against Stable Diffusion states. Stable Diffusion did not provide a comment by press time. Companies are selling AI-generated prints and Stable Diffusion can learn to copy an artist's style within hours. Given how new generative AI is, it's not surprising the legal system has yet to catch up.

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