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To help answer those questions, NBC News is tracking the online prices of five popular holiday gifts in major categories through the end of the year. If these specific items aren’t on your list, it may be worth keeping an eye on them anyway. Adobe, which tracks e-commerce spending, told NBC News it expects total holiday spending to top $240 billion this year, up 8.4% from last year. Retailers including Target, Walmart and Best Buy are kicking off early holiday sales in the first week of October. Similar deals are expected for the upcoming one this month, making it an opportune time to check on deals.

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☆ Going once, going twice: How Trump's cash and properties would be garnished and auctioned to pay his NY fraud debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AG Letitia James plans to go after Trump's cash and property if he doesn't pay his civil fraud debt. Is the ball in Letitia James' court? "The burden is on Letitia James to find Trump's assets" and decide what she wants garnished or auctioned, he said. D'Orazio predicts James would first target the cash that Trump and the Trump Organization keep in New York-registered bank accounts. He would then remit $95 million to the Attorney General's Office, and that would go toward paying Trump's judgment.

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☆ Turns out, Meta's Threads is good for breaking news
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Threads was a great place to get news on the OpenAI drama over the weekend. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Then, the biggest recent breaking news story in tech and business unfolded over the weekend with Sam Altman's shocking exit from OpenAI. It was the perfect test to see if Threads was up for a breaking news event. She also posted the same stuff to Threads, but as she pointed out — ironically — Threads doesn't "thread" posts properly, making a continuing story confusing to follow.

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☆ Jeremy Grantham's GMO launched its first ETF with top portfolio managers. Here's what's in it
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Jeremy Grantham's investment firm is taking its first steps to enter the world of exchange traded funds, debuting a new offering modeled on one of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo's crown jewel mutual funds. The GMO U.S. Quality ETF (QLTY) launched last Wednesday, marking the investment firm's first ETF. The new ETF will be managed by the same team that helms GMO Quality III mutual fund ( GQETX ). The QLTY ETF should see a similar turnover rate of around 20% to what the mutual fund has, he added. Jeremy Grantham, GMO's chief investment strategist, is not directly involved in the new ETF.

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☆ I quit my job at a brand-new Dollar General store after facing flooding, broken freezers, and frosty bathrooms
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Dollar General plans to open nearly 1,000 stores this year as it approaches 20,000 stores in the US. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis as-told-to story is based on a conversation with a former Dollar General employee in Minnesota who worked at a store that opened in 2021. So when the Dollar General store opened there, it got a lot of business. The first day I worked there, we were supposed to stock the shelves before the store opened. AdvertisementAdvertisementDo you work at a Dollar General store and have a story to share?

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg took the bait on Elon Musk's cage-match invitation, so now we might actually get to see the fight no one asked for
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It's the cage fight no one asked for. Jiu-jitsu lover Mark Zuckerberg has responded to Elon Musk's offer to fight him. Well, Elon Musk got what he asked for: Mark Zuckerberg is down to fight him. Mark Zuckerberg has a response to Elon Musk's suggestion that they get down and dirty in a cage match: "Send Me Location." When's fight night, Elon?

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☆ This married real-estate investing couple bought their first house by accident. Now they've built a $19 million 47-unit portfolio over the last 8 years by chasing the 'bread and butter' of multi-famil
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Over the past decade, they've grown their real estate portfolio to 47 units worth $19 million. Both had also had real estate ambitions prior to meeting. According to Simpson, the best way to source deals is also the most obvious — by having a good relationship with real estate brokers. If they intend to sell a property, Simpson and Moore generally only make improvements to between 60% to 65% of the units. In the future, the couple's long-term goals include continuing to grow their real estate portfolio, expanding their coaching business, and eventually handing their own investments full-time.

☆ A 2nd round of layoffs at Meta and Amazon shows companies are taking back their power — and they may not stop there
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta and Amazon have announced two series of mass layoffs in the span of months. After years of companies trying to attract and placate workers amid a labor shortage, businesses are reasserting some of their power. "We read about two rounds of layoffs now and shrug and say, 'When's the third?'" Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesIt's rare for a company to conduct multiple rounds of layoffs, according to data from Crunchbase. Amazon and Meta did it, so it won't stand out as much."

☆ A big distinction may explain why the FBI searched Trump's home but not Biden's over classified documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Top Republicans are calling on the FBI to search President Joe Biden's home as they did Mar-a-Lago. Trump has seized on the news about Biden, calling on the FBI to do the same to Biden's homes. Congressional allies including South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham called on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to handle the case, as exists with the Trump documents. Unlike in Trump's case, there is no evidence that Biden or those around him resisted returning them. That evidence is lacking in Biden's case, Neama Rahmani, an attorney and former federal prosecutor told Insider.

One way to ease the blow to your wallet or purse is by using frequent-flyer miles. So we calculated how much a frequent-flyer mile is worth by dividing the number of frequent-flyer miles needed by the ticket price. We found the best time to spend your frequent-flyer miles for Thanksgiving travel was to book during the first week of October, which was about eight weeks out. The best day to flyAs for what's the best day on which to travel to get the most from your miles, there are two answers. If you haven't booked flights yet, you may be too late to find the best value in frequent-flyer miles.

LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Fresh vegetables and fish are falling off the menu. Joanne Farrer used to regularly serve her three children roast beef dinners or stews packed with fresh vegetables. Volume sales of fresh vegetables fell by more than 6% and fresh meat by over 7% in August, for example, while sales of snacks and candy rose almost 4%. "We also know that cheap highly processed foods are the ones most likely to cause obesity." "If fresh food is cheaper then we'll get that, but it's not often on offer."

☆ Chinese authorities ask: Dear newlywed, when's the baby arriving?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Farah Master | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Students at Ayi University, a training program for domestic helpers, practice on baby dolls during a course teaching childcare in Beijing, China December 5, 2018. The Nanjing municipal government and the National Health Commission did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. The post was taken down a few hours after it was posted along with all the comments. The first time she was asked if she was taking folic acid and if she was preparing to conceive. Take the time to have a baby," she said she was told.

☆ Think you've got it bad? Odds are your manager is even more burned out than you are, according to a new survey.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Your manager might be even more burned out than you are, according to new survey from Slack. 43% of the middle managers surveyed reported burnout, more than any other worker group. Among the middle managers surveyed, 43% said they are experiencing burnout as a result of chronic workplace stress. Staff without any workers underneath them reported the second-highest percentage at 40%, followed by senior management at 37%, and executives at 32%. And burnout isn't just bad for workers, it's bad for the bottom line too — causing 32% worse productivity and 60% worse ability to focus, per the survey.

☆ Rising layoffs, high inflation, and the dreaded R-word have American workers nervous. Here's a guide to managing your career in an uncertain economy.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-18 | by ( Rachel Durose | Catherine Henderson | Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

The economic news is mixed: Inflation and interest rates are high, but the job market looks solid. It's possible that the Fed manages to cool off the economy and tame inflation without causing a spike in unemployment, said Flowers. "The outlook isn't as rosy as it was," Nick Bunker, the head of economic research at the jobs platform Indeed. If the thought of an economic downturn makes you fear for your job, you're not alone. Mentor someone else in your organization — if you're relatively new on the job yourself, take a student intern under your wing.

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