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We talked to several workplace experts to gain their insight on phrases you shouldn't say to your boss, even if you're close. 'I can't'A can-do attitude is always a valued trait, and just because you're friends, it doesn't mean you'll get called on the next time an important project comes up. It's fine if you have to leave early, but don't say it's because "things are slow" or you have "nothing to do." 'I'm going to be out these days,' or 'I'm leaving early tomorrow'Just because you're friends, it doesn't mean you should tell your boss you're going on vacation or leaving the office early. "Your boss hopes you're honest 100% of the time, and what you're about to say is not an aberration," said Taylor.

☆ Here are the 14 Republican senators who may have doomed their bills in the new GOP House by voting for a major spending bill
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kevin McCarthy even vowed to block House consideration of bills sponsored by GOP senators who voted for it. But a slew of GOP senators voted for it anyway, including 4 who are retiring and 14 who will remain. "Kevin's in a tough spot," Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, a former House Republican and an opponent of the omnibus himself, told CNN's Manu Raju. "Statements like that... is the very reason that some Senate Republicans feel they probably should spare them from the burden of having to govern." Additionally, four Republican senators who voted for the bill are retiring, making the threat meaningless to them.

☆ What could GOP control of the House mean for U.S.-China tensions?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Megan Lebowitz | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

McCarthy also says he plans to create a House select committee on China, the first since the late 1990s. House Republicans will also investigate the origins of the coronavirus and “the CCP’s role in the spread,” the blog post said, although it is unclear whether that investigation would be part of the select committee. Tensions were further inflamed in August by Pelosi’s Taiwan visit, the first by a sitting U.S. House speaker since 1997. The most volatile issue in U.S.-China relations is the status of Taiwan, which Beijing has not ruled out seizing by force. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, Taiwan on Aug. 3, 2022.

☆ Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says 100% of customer assets are fully backed one-to-one, and all withdrawals will be covered: 'We will not have an issue'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Binance chief executive told CNBC on Thursday that his exchange backs customer assets one-to-one. The chief executive and founder of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange told CNBC's Squawk Box that all customer assets on the platform are backed one-to-one, either in hard or cold-storage wallets. "In crypto, there's no central bank printing money to bail out banks when there's a liquidity crunch," Zhao said. "Crypto businesses have to hold user assets one-to-one, and that's what we do - it's very simple." The collapse of FTX and the ensuing criminal probe into founder Sam Bankman-Fried has added a new layer of skepticism to the crypto space and concerns over the safety of customer assets.

☆ Read the full memo the CEO of Binance sent to staffers after the exchange was hit by more than $1 billion of withdrawals in a day amid the FTX fiasco
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shortly after jittery investors withdrew over $1 billion from Binance on Tuesday, its CEO sent a memo to staffers. Changpeng "CZ" Zhao seemed to try to assuage market fears amid the implosion of crypto peer FTX. In the memo, CZ wrote Binance expects "the next several months to be bumpy." Some days we have net withdrawals; some days we have net deposits. Read the full memo Changpeng "CZ" Zhao sent to staff on Tuesday.

☆ Investors Are Losing Faith in Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Jack Pitcher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cathie Wood continues to shrug off the critics and stand by her investments. Investors who bought the dip in Cathie Wood ‘s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund have been punished this year. Some finally appear to be losing their conviction. Shares of the fund, a pandemic-era favorite largely made up of unprofitable, growth-oriented technology companies, are down 63% this year. While the S&P 500 index has rallied 10% since mid-October to cut its 2022 losses to 17%, Ms. Wood’s flagship fund is hovering near a five-year low.

Sean Hall and Nathan Butler told a Los Angeles federal judge they will dismiss their 2017 case with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled. In "Shake It Off," Swift sings: "the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate." "Playas Gon' Play," written by Hall and Butler, included the phrases "playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate." Swift told the court in August that she had never heard 3LW's song before writing "Shake It Off." She said she had heard the phrases "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate" used commonly to "express the idea that one can or should shrug off negativity."

☆ I'm a UPS driver. I'm paid well and like the solitude, but management still makes me want to quit most days.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider spoke to a longtime UPS driver about their job. The driver said the job has its perks, like solitude, pay, and sometimes scenic routes. As a UPS delivery driver for many years, I've experienced everything from the good and the bad to the downright ugly. If they accept and they already have a dedicated route, then their route opens up and bids are taken on that route. Are you a UPS driver with an interesting story?

☆ Oil Market Takes Russian Price Cap in Stride
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Joe Wallace | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The harshest sanctions yet hit Russia’s energy industry this week. The oil market’s response was to shrug. The absence of a price surge is an early win for U.S. officials who strove to water down European sanctions they feared would snarl up global crude trading.

☆ Kyrsten Sinema leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as a political independent, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive TV interview. While Sanders and King formally caucus with Democrats, Sinema declined to explicitly say that she would do the same. She also brushed aside criticism she may face for the decision to leave the Democratic Party. “Nothing about the last two years indicates a major effort would’ve made helped – the exact opposite actually,” a White House official said. After a vote against filibuster changes in January, the Arizona Democratic Party’s executive board censured Sinema.

☆ Marketmind: Stop making sense
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] The Federal Reserve building is seen in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2022. "It makes sense to moderate the pace of our rate increases as we approach the level of restraint that will be sufficient to bring inflation down," Powell said. Perhaps not, but markets are moving ahead with an assumption we're nearly there. European futures indicate stocks in the region will spike higher, tracking Asian equities, which were tracking Wall Street. "To promote wage growth, the BOJ needs to patiently maintain its current monetary easing."

☆ Japan will use G7, UN roles to pressure Russia on Ukraine - foreign minister
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Tim Kelly | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

TOKYO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Japan will use its turn next year in leadership roles at the Group of Seven and the United Nations to pressure Russia to halt its war in Ukraine, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi said at the Reuters NEXT conference. In October, the G7 committed to providing financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support to Ukraine for as long as necessary. Japan wants to coordinate with other "G7 nations and like-minded countries to keep on good teamwork vis-a-vis such issues as Russia's aggression on Ukraine and other measures." "We would like to further strengthen the movement for reform for the United Nations," Hayashi told Reuters. "Since the start of the United Nations, the membership has not changed.

☆ The divorce lawyer who's represented Johnny Depp, Kim K, and Angelina Jolie charges $1,000 an hour and says tough love is how she gets things done
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Laura Wasser is a divorce lawyer whose clients have included Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. "You'd go to someone's bar mitzvah and say, 'You're Dennis Wasser's daughter,' and they'd say, 'You're at that table,' according to whether my dad had represented the mom or the dad," she said. She'd majored in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and realized quickly that what she'd loved most about those studies was vital in divorce cases, as was her age and gender. She's a spokesperson for Divorce.com, the do-it-yourself split site, as its chief of divorce evolution and has hosted several podcasts, including "All's Fair with Laura Wasser" and "Divorce Sucks! With Laura Wasser," where one guest was the Kardashian momager and matriarch Kris Jenner.

On Monday, the White House said it backed the right of people to peacefully protest in China but stopped short of criticizing Beijing as protesters in multiple Chinese cities demonstrated against heavy COVID-19 measures. The Republican response was swift. Senator Ted Cruz called White House response "pitiful," adding in a tweet: "At a potentially historic inflection point, Dems shill for the CCP." Beyond this, say analysts, the U.S. wants to avoid language that allows China to pin the protests on U.S. interference. Daniel Russel, who served as the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia in the Obama administration, said the Biden White House would be focused on the next steps by Chinese authorities.

☆ Extraordinary close-up images show insects as you’ve never seen them before
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Released on 22 November, “Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril” is a collaboration between Biss and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Biss spent two years photographing the insects, capturing every extraordinary detail from strands of hair to the reflection in a wing. "Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril" is out now in hardcover. The insect specimens were couriered to the UK, where Levon Biss photographed them in his studio. He has photographed seeds and fruits in extraordinary detail, insect eggs, the human eye and even mold growing on tea bags.

Persons: Levon Biss, Biss, –, Abrams, ”, “, Elli Biss “, Lauri Halderman Organizations: CNN, American Museum of, of Locations: British, Biss, New York City

☆ European markets head for higher open as investors shrug off economic fears
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

European markets are heading for a higher open Tuesday as investors in the region appear to shrug off concerns among their U.S. and Asia-Pacific counterparts over China's tightening of Covid restrictions, which are continuing to pressure output. Investors continue to watch economic data closely and assess how it could affect the trajectory of monetary policy from central banks. Global investors have taken some heart from recent, lower-than-expected consumer and wholesale inflation prints in the United States, prompting bets that the Federal Reserve would have to slow its aggressive interest rate hikes.

☆ How small-town Maine embraced a family that fled the Taliban
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Elyse Lightman Samuels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Last November, at about midnight, Omid was lying in bed in his new home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine — exhausted, but unable to sleep. On this night, and on many nights during Omid's first few months in Maine, Nasir was soon at his door. Omid's family arrived in Maine just before Halloween in 2021 and recently celebrated one year in Maine. Catholic Charities, the local refugee-resettlement organization in Maine, was working with Omid's family to help them resettle. After Omid's family escaped Kabul, members of his extended family came by to collect some of their more precious items, and gave other things away.

☆ Luka Doncic: NBA superstar prefers chess to Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“I just play chess on my phone,” said the Dallas Mavericks star. After his game-winning performance against the Boston Celtics in February 2021, Doncic was asked how he chooses how to dissect a defense. “It’s like playing chess: you’ve got to take your time and see the moves,” he told TNT after his 31-point performance. A quick scroll through Doncic’s blue tick verified Twitter account sees him celebrating the first basketball court built in Europe by an NBA team – his Mavericks team built a court in his homeland of Slovenia. The 26-year-old looks to be devoted sneakerhead, as he thanks on Twitter many of the shoemakers and sponsors he’s had in recent weeks.

☆ Jim Cramer says ‘exhausted’ sellers are behind the market’s strength
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer said on Thursday that stocks have largely stayed resilient lately because the investors remaining in the market are there to stay. The remaining shareholders, they may just be in it for the long haul. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 7.51 points, or 0.02%, after tumbling as much as 314 points during the trading session. Cramer also pointed out that the market has stayed resilient even during the collapse of FTX. "Nobody cares about crypto because we've already been in a bear market for a year."

☆ Even with slower inflation, consumer sentiment weakened sharply in November, survey shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

On an annual basis, the headline index reading fell 18.8%, while the current conditions measure was off 21.5% and the future expectations measure slid 17%. The University of Michigan release comes a day after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index rose 0.4% in October, below the 0.6% estimate. "For low-income households in particular, higher prices for essentials limit discretionary spending, crimp savings, and contribute to higher credit card debt." Inflation expectations edged higher in the month despite October's CPI reading, which showed that year-over-year prices rose 7.7%, compared to 8.2% the previous month. The sentiment index reached its historic low in June as worries accelerate that the U.S. already was in recession or heading for one.

☆ Bitcoin's break above $20,000 has investors wondering if the crypto bottom is in. Here's what analysts say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

October is a historically strong month for crypto, but this month, prices and volatility have been relatively flat. Don't call it a bottom yet The odd inactivity has investors wondering if the crypto market could be turning for the better and breaking out of this year's rut. That, combined with the recent low volatility, would provide more evidence of a bottom, but bitcoin today is still leaving derivative exchanges. "For low price volatility to be associated with bottoms, the portion of bitcoin inflows into exchanges dominated by whales ought to be relatively low," he said. CryptoQuant also analyzed bitcoin's MVRV, or market value to realized value, ratio, which shows crypto hasn't gone into undervalued territory.

☆ Stocks shrug off tech's troubles as the Street awaits key inflation data next week
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

The major indexes all posted gains this week despite a Big Tech beatdown, proving the market can rally without its most valuable stocks. Indeed strength in other sectors — only communication services finished down — helped the overall market to shrug off disappointing earnings results from Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN) and Meta Platforms (META). Alphabet's results fell short of the Street's expectations, but still managed to grow revenue 6% annually off a $65 billion base. (Canada's central bank hiked rates less than expected this week, opting for a 50 basis point hike instead of the expected 75.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ Ethridge: The markets' willingness to shrug off bad news is surprising
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | 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 EmailEthridge: The markets' willingness to shrug off bad news is surprisingMalcolm Ethridge, Executive Vice President of CIC Wealth, joins Worldwide Exchange to discuss earnings, the markets, and where he's investing his money.

☆ Visa profit beats as payment volumes surge on travel demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Mehnaz Yasmin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"Travel outbound from the U.S. to all geographies continue to pick up steam," Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu said on a post-earnings call. "The strong dollar and delays in visa issuance from some countries appear to be impacting travel into the U.S," he added. Transactions processed at the world's largest payments processor rose 12% on a constant dollar basis to 50.9 billion in the fourth quarter ended Sept. 30. On a constant dollar basis, Visa's payment volumes surged 10%, while cross-border volumes - a key measure that tracks spending on cards beyond the country of issue - jumped 36%. Excluding items, the world's largest payments processor reported a profit of $1.93 a share, beating estimates of $1.86, according to Refinitiv IBES data.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterTo better prepare for defaults, AmEx built provisions of $778 million in the third quarter, compared with analysts' estimate of $604.1 million. Still, the company expects to report full-year profit above its prior forecast of $9.25 to $9.65 per share. The blending of work and leisure travel has also caught up, executives in the travel industry have said in recent months. Strong growth in travel and entertainment in its international markets helped AmEx beat September-quarter profit estimates. Revenue rose 24% to $13.6 billion, while expenses climbed 19% as AmEx had to spend heavily on customer rewards, compensation and marketing.

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