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☆ What Is a W-4 and How Do I Fill Mine Out?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +14 min

How Form W-4 has changedIf you haven’t checked in on your W-4 lately, you’ll want to take a gander, says Pete Isberg, an executive with payroll provider ADP. That’s because Form W-4 was overhauled in 2020 based on changes passed in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act a few years earlier. At the top of the W-4 form, you enter your personal information and filing status. If you have multiple jobs, you’ll use Step 2(b)—Multiple Jobs Worksheet, which is found on page 3 of Form W-4. So after you file your Form 1040 tax return, your W-4 form updates should be next.

☆ James Davolos' stock fund has been one of the world's best for two decades. He told us how he has consistently beaten the market, and why he's comfortable betting half his money on a single company.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Co-manager James Davolos told Insider about the fund's approach to identifying market mistakes. Half the fund's money is in one stock, and Davolos explained why he's not hurrying to change that. Davolos and his team then investigate those areas and try to identify any mistakes the market has made about the quality of an investment. "Nobody at the firm follows a sector per se, or a geography, or a capitalization," Davolos told Insider in a recent interview. Texas Pacific doesn't have to pay for equipment or fund that work; it simply makes money from the drillers.

☆ This startup is one step closer to cracking the code on 3D printing shoes with a $3 million investment led by former Nike executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The company makes 3D-printed footwear. Footwear manufacturing is inherently wasteful and time consuming. Hilos' technology works like this: When a customer purchases a shoe, Hilos makes another one available in a matter of days. Hilos makes soles from a type of plastic, technically TPU, or thermoplastic polyurethane, that is made from 80% recycled material. "If you started with the premise of, 'I want to make a new footwear company,' how would you do it?

☆ What CEOs Are Saying: 2023 ‘Is the Year of Efficiency’
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( George Stahl | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Here is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said this week about business and consumer spending, the supply chain and other topics. Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg:“I want to discuss my management theme for 2023, which is the year of efficiency. We closed last year with some difficult layoffs and restructuring some teams, and when we did this, I said clearly that this was the beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end. And since then, we’ve taken some additional steps.” (Feb. 1)

☆ What CEOs Are Saying: ‘The Consumer Is Under Pressure’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( George Stahl | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Here is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said this week about the economy, inflation and the labor market, among other topics. Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella:“A few things are increasingly clear. Just as we saw customers accelerate their digital spend during the pandemic, we are now seeing them optimize that spend. Also, organizations are exercising caution given the macroeconomic uncertainty. And the next major wave of computing is being born as we turn the world’s most advanced AI models into a new computing platform.” (Jan. 24)

☆ Women journalists remember Barbara Walters: 'Her powerful legacy lives on'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters report from London during the wedding of Prince William and Princes Kate in 2011. Guthrie posted a throwback photo of Walters at the “TODAY” anchor desk with the caption: “thank you, Barbara. Harry Reasoner and Barbara Barbara on the set of ABC's evening news in 1976. "Her powerful legacy lives on in all the women journalists who were influenced by her passionate work and searing interviews," Roberts wrote. 'This is my legacy'Led by Oprah, 25 women journalists who were influenced by Barbara Walters say goodbye to her during her final co-host appearance on "The View" in 2014.

☆ Elizabeth Holmes’s Sentencing: How Other White-Collar Criminals Fared
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( George Stahl | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, and the Theranos Inc. founder could be joining a list of notable white-collar criminals to serve time in prison. Ms. Holmes was convicted in January on four counts of criminal fraud for deceiving investors while running a yearslong scheme at Theranos, the blood-testing startup where she was chief executive.

☆ What CEOs Are Saying: The Fed ‘Should Look Out the Front Windshield’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( George Stahl | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Steel makers fear deepening crisis from energy crunch as output halted
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Philip Blenkinsop | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Stainless metal coils are seen at the Belgian site of stainless steel maker Aperam, which has been forced to slow production due to spiralling energy prices, in Genk, Belgium September 22, 2022. Even with four wind turbines and over 50,000 solar panels at its site in eastern Belgium, stainless steel maker Aperam has been forced to halt production as surging energy prices bite. Hallemans says the potential payout producers such as Aperam would receive is unclear and could be months away, with energy prices sky-high just as Aperam seeks to bind customers to annual contracts. ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe has trimmed production there, with customers hesitant in the face of an emerging recession and energy prices that challenge its international competitiveness. Eurofer says the situation has worsened markedly since its August forecast of a modest 1.7% decline of European steel consumption this year, but a solid 5.6% rebound in 2023.

☆ Fact Check-Idaho’s government is not offering ‘porn literacy’ courses to students
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Viral claims that the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) is purchasing “porn literacy” materials and including them in their curriculum for students are untrue. On Sept. 13, the IFF published an article titled “Idaho’s government offers “porn literacy,” other corrupting practices to k-12 students,” (here). (The article’s first paragraph uses different wording to the headline, saying the DHW purchases “materials and training” from ETR “an interest group promoting porn literacy” – not that Idaho’s DHW offers porn literacy). The descriptions of the courses and table of contents make no mention of pornography or “porn literacy.” Stahl told Reuters the agency never considered the use of any “porn literacy” materials. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) has not purchased “porn literacy” materials and included them in sex-ed curricula for students.

☆ This spin-off focused fund is crushing the market in 2022 with an unconventional portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jesse Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The Horizon Kinetics Spin-off and Corporate Restructuring Fund , which buys stocks shortly before or after a corporate event, has created a narrow portfolio of smaller stocks that is crushing the market in 2022. The fund has gained more than 17% in 2022 even as the S & P 500 fell into a bear market. James Davolos, a portfolio manager at Horizon Kinetics, said that spin-offs can create mispricing of stocks due to market structure. So they are probably going to sell the stock," Davolos said. Worker hospitality stock Civeo Corp ., which was spun out from Oil States International in 2014 , has also been a big winner for the Kinetics fund in 2022, gaining more than 40%.

☆ Why a top Roche scientist is leaving after 25 years to join a rising biotech startup using fungi to make new drugs
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After 25 years at the pharma giant Roche, the drug hunter Martin Stahl is leaving to join a biotech. CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — A longtime drug-hunting veteran is leaving one of the largest drugmakers to lead the science division at the biotech startup LifeMine Therapeutics, Insider has learned. FogPharmaThe big draw for Stahl was LifeMine's approach to discovering drugs. With its genetic-database approach, LifeMine hopes to greatly speed up how long it takes to develop fungi-derived drugs. Stahl said LifeMine's approach leaned on nature, rather than medicinal chemists, to design the drugs.

☆ Thinking about quitting? Here are 5 ways to decide if job-hopping is right for you.
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-23 | by ( Catherine Henderson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There are lots of factors that go into career decisions, and the choice is different for everyone. Insider spoke to career experts about how to decide if you should find a new job. Insider spoke to career coaches about five ways to decide if changing jobs is right for you. The best option might not be the easiestWhen it comes to making career decisions, we often choose the easiest path. Oftentimes, people approach career decisions with fear, worried about being unemployed or unqualified.

☆ The corporate landlords buying up America's houses are hiring high-profile PR execs and lobbying Washington regulators to convince opponents they're not the bad guys
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-28 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Corporate owners of single-family homes face mounting criticism as their presence grows. Organizers from the Center for Public Democracy stood atop the stage at the Park Hyatt hotel in Washington, DC, where they interrupted a conference for owners of single-family rental homes. Institutional owners of single-family homes have typically preferred to operate quietly. In the decade-plus since the financial crisis, institutional investors have poured billions of dollars into acquiring and developing single-family homes for rent. It's for that reason that Howard is concerned about homeowners associations barring investors from buying homes in certain neighborhoods.

☆ NBCNews.com Digital Contacts
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-14 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

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