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☆ Tiger Global Halts New Chinese Equities Investments
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Juliet Chung | Jing Yang | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tiger Global Management, which has offices in Midtown Manhattan, had been shrinking its exposure to Chinese equities, concentrating on a smaller set of companies. Longtime China investor Tiger Global Management has hit pause on investing in Chinese equities, said people familiar with the matter, as the firm reassesses its exposure to the world’s second-largest economy after President Xi Jinping cemented his control over the country. Tiger executives, including founder Charles “ Chase” Coleman , have told others that Mr. Xi’s reelection and his stacking of the Communist Party’s leadership with loyalists at the recent party Congress could increase geopolitical tensions and means the country’s Zero-Covid policy will likely continue, the people said.

NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Donald Trump and his namesake company have settled a lawsuit by protesters who said his security guards violently attacked them while they were demonstrating outside Trump Tower in September 2015 over his statements about immigration. Trump, the Trump Organization and the plaintiffs agreed to dismiss the seven-year-old lawsuit over the alleged assault in a joint filing on Wednesday with a New York state court in the Bronx. The Sept. 3, 2015, incident at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan occurred 2-1/2 months after Trump, while announcing his first White House run, complained about immigrants being sent to the United States by Mexico. "They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists," Trump said. Like some other lawsuits against Trump, the protesters' case was delayed in part because Trump was president.

☆ How to Survive on New York’s Subways
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Carine Hajjar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For my dad, a common one is “always keep your head on a swivel,” meaning be aware of your surroundings. Since moving to New York City this fall, it’s one I’m hearing more often. Last week two officers from the New York City Police Department standing by the turnstiles at a Midtown Manhattan station handed me a pamphlet. It was titled “Personal Safety Tips,” issued by the NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau. Inside, it had several categories, like “PURSE/WALLET SAFETY” and “WALKING—BE STREET SMART,” with corresponding guidance.

☆ Workers at NYC Starbucks and Amazon Go store file petition to unionize
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon and Starbucks stop Union Busting sign, International Workers Day, United Against Union Busting March and Rally, Workers Circle, Amazon Labor Union, NY Immigration Coalition, Make the Road, NYC Central Labor Council, RWDSU and more community-based organizations, immigrant rights groups, unions, and allies, Union Square, New York City. Workers at the Starbucks and Amazon Go store in midtown Manhattan filed a petition for a union election on Friday. It's the first cafe that uses Amazon's cashierless technology to try to unionize under Workers United and just the second of its kind. The store, which is located next to Port Authority and on the ground floor of the New York Times building, generates high volume but also has high employee turnover, according to Starbucks Workers United. Amazon Labor Union won its first election this spring, unionizing a warehouse on New York's Staten Island.

☆ I work remotely, but my co-workers are returning to the office—here's what career experts told me to do
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

I started at CNBC in September 2020, and like everyone else on my team, I was working remotely. I interacted with my coworkers over Slack and Zoom, and it was months before I saw any of them from the shoulders down. For another, NBCUniversal asked that their employees begin returning to the office — three days a week in the case of my team. "The fear is out of sight, out of mind," says Stacie Haller, a career expert at ResumeBuilder.com. "You want to make sure you're in the mix and on an even playing field with your co-workers."

☆ No jail time for Cuba Gooding Jr. in forcible touching case
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. resolved his New York City forcible touching case Thursday with a guilty plea to a lesser charge and no jail time after complying with the terms of a conditional plea agreement reached in April. Gooding, 54, faces no additional penalties and, by replacing his misdemeanor plea with a plea to a noncriminal violation, he will not have a criminal record. Gooding pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor charge that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018. Judge Curtis Farber earlier had ruled if the Gooding case went to trial, prosecutors could have called two additional women to testify about their allegations that Gooding also violated them. Along with the criminal case, Gooding is accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in New York City in 2013.

☆ Singapore food vendors launch first hawker center in New York
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Roselle Chen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A dish is pictured as Urban Hawker, a Singapore-style hawker market, opens in Midtown Manhattan in New York, NY, U.S., September 28, 2022. Urban Hawker, in midtown Manhattan, features 17 vendors handpicked by the food hall's curator, KF Seetoh, with 11 coming directly from hawker centers in Singapore. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"Street food in Singapore is not something you burn or deep fry. Bourdain was enthusiastic about the idea of a New York hawker market. "The amazing thing about him saying yes was that he's never been to Singapore," Seetoh said.

☆ Donald Trump wins ruling in rape accuser Carroll's defamation lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan asked an appeals court in Washington to weigh in on whether the laws of that district shielded Trump from liability. Carroll sued Trump in November 2019, and had been hoping to go to trial as soon as next February. On Sept. 20, Kaplan said Carroll planned to sue Trump for battery and inflicting emotional distress even if the defamation claims were thrown out. 'WE DO NOT PASS JUDGMENT'Trump claimed he was shielded from Carroll's lawsuit by a federal law immunizing government employees from defamation claims. That would have ended Carroll's case, because the United States had not waived its immunity from defamation claims.

☆ Appeals court stops short of declaring Donald Trump immune from rape accuser claim
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump rallies with his supporters at Wilmington International Airport in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File PhotoNEW YORK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday stopped short of declaring Donald Trump immune from author E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit, saying it needed guidance on whether Trump was acting as U.S. president when he denied raping her. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan asked an appeals court in Washington to weigh in on whether the laws of that district shielded Trump from liability. The Manhattan court also handed Trump a victory in declaring he was a U.S. government "employee" when he allegedly defamed Carroll, a condition underlying his immunity claim. Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said in a statement she was "confident" the District of Columbia court would let the case proceed.

☆ AllianceBernstein's CEO leans into private assets and ETFs as active managers face the worst market in decades
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AB CEO Seth Bernstein spoke with Insider recently about the active asset manager's plans. Portfolio managers of active ETFs are actively overseeing a basket of securities, while typical passive ETFs track indices. Branded black water bottles promoting the new products read: "AB ETFs. Its first two ETFs are fixed income products — the AB Ultra Short Income ETF and the AB Tax-Aware Short Duration Municipal ETF. "We will continue to diversify the platform into private alts," Bernstein said during the Morgan Stanley conference in June.

☆ Ray Dalio says his hedge fund Bridgewater Associates is up around 25% this year. He shares 2 ways investors should approach a market he says is due to drop another 20% — and an area he's bullish on lo
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said on Wednesday that stocks are likely to fall further. Given his down outlook, Dalio was asked how investors should approach the current environment, and gave two answers. The former shields investors from rising or falling inflation rates, while nominal bonds can lose money when considering inflation. Dalio also recommended that investors keep their portfolios well-balanced and diversified, and avoid timing the market. "The most important thing that you can do is have a well-balanced portfolio, not to market time, but diversify," Dalio said.

☆ A day in the life of Ryan Serhant, a celebrity broker who's about to list NYC's most expensive home for more than $200 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-03 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The reality-TV star rose to fame on "Million Dollar Listing New York" as an agent to the wealthy. It's a habit he's had since the early days of "Million Dollar Listing New York." It was heavy-weights day, Serhant said, working the entire back of his body. The call's over and Serhant heads into new-agent interviews. 8 p.m.Zena's asleep, so Serhant heads down to his home office and works on getting his inbox to zero for the day.

☆ Cannabis companies are racing to cash in on New York's legal marijuana market, but illicit weed vans and galleries are posing a surprising threat
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-28 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | Jeremy Berke | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These "gray market" sellers aren't paying taxes like regulated cannabis companies. On the streets of New York City, it feels as if the cannabis market is already in full swing. While cannabis is legal to possess and consume in New York, businesses need licenses to sell cannabis in the state. Unlicensed cannabis sales continue to compete with regulated cannabis companiesIn states and countries that have already legalized cannabis for recreational use, regulated cannabis companies have struggled to compete against their illicit counterparts. In Canada, which legalized cannabis in 2018, the rollout of the legal market was plagued by supply-chain issues and persistent illicit sales, as Insider reported.

☆ Seth Moulton bankrolls ring maker, Mark Green goes crypto, Mark Warner sells a 7-figure window-and-door investment
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-19 | by ( Dave Levinthal | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton has made a major investment in a Finnish wearable tech firm. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat, sold a major investment in a high-end window company. Elon Musk would be proudRep. Mark Green, a Republican from Tennessee, purchased between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of cryptocurrency Dogecoin — the same day virtual currency platform Coinbase went public. According to Barron's, he paid $1.95 million to acquire 15,000 shares for $130 each, and paid $1.4 million for 10,000 shares for $140 each. He also bought between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of stock in Amazon.

With the term “personal taxes,” however, Mr. Garten appears to be conflating income taxes with other federal taxes Mr. Trump has paid — Social Security, Medicare and taxes for his household employees. Fragments of Mr. Trump’s tax returns have leaked out before. Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras, a billionaire who boasts of close ties to Mr. Putin, was Mr. Trump’s partner in the event. Mr. Trump’s avoidance of income taxes is one of the most striking discoveries in his tax returns, especially given the vast wash of income itemized elsewhere in those filings. When they got to line 56, the one for income taxes due, the amount was the same each year: $750.

☆ How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-03 | by ( Jonathan Mahler | Jim Rutenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +61 min

Murdoch family, 1987: Lachlan, James, Anna and Rupert. The second season of HBO’s “Succession,” whose fictional media family, the Roys, bears a striking resemblance to the Murdochs, airs this summer. ‘A press dictatorship’To understand how the Murdoch empire works, it is essential to return to its origins. The bigger Murdoch’s empire became, the more power he had to clear away obstacles to further its expansion. Like his father, Lachlan considered the idea of meddling with such an important profit driver a form of madness.

Persons: ‘, Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch, Jerry Hall, Lachlan’s, Lachlan, —, Hall, President Trump, Theresa May, Robert A, consummating, Rupert, Elisabeth, Anna, James, David Graves, Rex, Prudence, Murdoch’s, Patricia Booker, Anna Mann, jockeying, Murdoch didn’t, ” Murdoch, Ron Galella, ‘ I’ve, Graham, Jeff Bezos, William R, Hearst, George Hearst, Ochs, Sulzberger, Arnold Newman, HBO’s, Australia —, “, don’t, Trump, Rutger Bregman, Tucker Carlson, Carlson, — Murdoch, Dow Jones, Bancroft, ’, Keith Murdoch, Keith, Joseph Lyons, Tom Roberts’s, ” Lyons, ”, I’ll, ” Rupert Murdoch, Aubrey Hart, Roberts, ” Keith, Margaret Thatcher’s, Thatcher, revel, John Major, Neil Kinnock, Joseph Stalin, Britain’s, Roy Cohn —, Joseph McCarthy, Ronald Reagan’s, Roger Stone Jr, Murdoch weaponize, Reagan’s, Stone, Reagan, George H.W, Bush, L.A, Ted Turner, Roger Ailes, Nixon, George H.W . Bush, Time Warner, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Post —, Fox, Monica Lewinsky, ” David Frum, George W, Sumner, Peter Mathew, Fairfax, Chase Carey, Talib Kweli, Rawkus, Kathryn Hufschmid, Kathryn, ” Lachlan, Sarah O’Hare, Lachlan doesn’t, Chris Mitchell, — he’d, Wendi Murdoch, Wendi, Jules Stein, Leonardo DiCaprio, James warily, Ivanka Trump, Ivanka’s, Jared Kushner, Kushner, Ivanka, Wendi’s, Donald Trump, Ailes, Rudolph Giuliani’s, Corey Lewandowski, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bret Baier’s, Baier, Stephen F, Hayes, ” Trump, Tell Hayes, Sean Hannity, Sinclair —, Doug Mills, Megyn Kelly, — “ You’ve, — Trump, Kelly, Charles Krauthammer, John Kasich, James’s, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Hillary, Clinton, United States —, Paul Gigot, Obama, Al Drago, Anthony Hilton, Hilton, Rodrigo Duterte, Viktor Orban, europhiles, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, David Cameron, feckless, Leveson, Robinson, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Farage, Evgeny Lebedev, Carlo Allegri, Murdoch lounging, What’s, lodestar, David Rhodes, Rhodes, Ben Rhodes, Kevin Hagen, he’d, Trump’s, Jeff Rovin, Satan, James Murdoch, Clint Spaulding, Patrick McMullan, James Stavridis Organizations: Northern, Fox News Channel, Sun, European Union —, Downing, Walt Disney Company, Century Fox, Disney, Getty, News Corp, Trust, Washington Post, Hearst Corporation, United, The New York Times, Arnold Newman Properties, Fox, White, Broadway, Fox News, Trump White, Street, Melbourne Herald, Weekly Times, ”, Eugenics Society of Victoria, Oxford, Murdoch, Fleet, The, British government’s, Sky Television, Britain’s “, Labor, Trump, Gov, Reagan’s, New, New York Post, The Boston Herald, CNN, Time, Republican, Post, Pew, Republicans, CBS, Viacom, British Sky Broadcasting, Australia spearfishing, Harvard, The Harvard, Rawkus Records, Princeton, Kawasaki, Hollywood, New York Observer, York mayoral, Fox & Friends, Trump International Golf Club, Gateway, America, New York Times, Clinton Climate Initiative, Labor Party centrist, Pacific Partnership, Tea Party, European Union, Freedom Party, Nazi, London, Press Association, Associated Press, Brexit Times, United Nations, Reuters, Photographers, CBS News, Democrat Locations: Macedonia, Southern, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, United States, Britain, London, Australia, Australian, Sydney, Lachlan, Davos, New York, Dutch, Iraq, British, Gallipoli, Adelaide, White Australia, Luxembourg, York, George H.W ., Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Indonesia, Oregon, Fiji, Murdoch, Cavan, Beverly Hills, L.A, Caribbean, earshot, West Palm, Des Moines, Iowa, Ohio, Clinton, Trump, Downing, Brussels, Europe, Philippines, Manila, Bangkok, Cannes, “, Trump’s, Scotland, Aberdeen, Ailes’s, Russian

☆ Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves
▼ + stars: | 2016-05-15 | by ( Nina Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +51 min

Then, like more than a million men, women and children since 1869, she was consigned to a trench on Hart Island. Citing security, the city’s Correction Department also repeatedly rebuffed The Times’s requests to witness Hart Island burials firsthand. hart island Future plots Future plots Active trench 2000s 1990s Hart Island N.Y.C. He readily remembered the Dickerson case as a financial disappointment, but said he was hearing of his ward’s Hart Island burial for the first time. When she died, Ms. Murray had $6,887 left in her personal account at New Surfside.

Persons: Alon Sicherman, Micah Dickbauer, Leola Dickerson, Zarramen Gooden, Milton Weinstein, Hart, shrouds Hart Island’s, Ruth Proskauer Smith, Arnold, Timothy Daniels, Melinda Hunt, Hunt, Hart Island’s, “, snatchers, New York State’s, Jim Crow, Gwendolyn Burke, Burke, ”, David Minton, Dickerson, We’re, Mango’s, Joseph Dixon, Helen Katz, Johnny Maddox, Constance Dickerson Williams, Grandma Leola, Dickerson’s, Dr, Michael Katz, Ms, Katz, Maddox, Bernice, Thackus Dickerson, sheriff’s, Jay Stuart Dankberg, ” Mr, Dankberg, exposés, —, ” Felice Wechsler, Constance Mirabelli, Mirabelli, John, Jo Ann Douglas, Mirabelli ”, Douglas, Ciro Ferrer, Ferrer, Regla, Nicholas S, Ratush, Ferrer’s, Ilda, Mr, Julie Bolcer, ” Zarramen, Rita Nelson, Malondya, Doris McCrea, Audrey Ponzio, McCrea, Jonathan Mawere, Emmett Pantin, Sgt, Gerard Pantin, ” Sergeant Pantin, Jason Chiaramonte, Hey, Jason, Chiaramonte, ” Ms, Bolcer, McAllister, Hurricane Sandy, Amy Koplow, Einstein, ” Michael Wynston, Weinstein’s, Wynston, Weinstein, Lynda, abusiveness, Michael, wouldn’t, Barry Gainsburg, they’re, Monica Murray, Maureen, Linda, doesn’t, ” Maureen Eastman, St . Lucia, Murray, Eastman, Grandma, Charles, Murray’s, ’, Sheryl Hurst, Rodeph Sholom, Terry Saunders, Lady Thiang, Hurst’s, James Hurst, Hurst, Sally Kaplan, Sheryl, ’ ” Organizations: The New York Times, New York Times, Sears, Roebuck & Company, city’s, Information, New York University School of Medicine, New York, Department, Times, The Times, Columbia College, United, New, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Social, Atlantic City, Army, Queens County, Medicaid, Government, Hygiene Legal Service, Medical, Continental, Care, Hart, ”, Offshore Hospital, Hospital, Rivals, American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, Queens, Nassau Community College, Bellevue Hospital, Association, Center for Nursing, Rehabilitation, Irish, New Surfside, Facebook, Jewish Locations: Hart, New York City, Long, Alabama, New York, Bronx, . New York, New, Dakota, Manhattan, New York State, Jerusalem, Southern, morgues, Philadelphia , New Haven, United States, Ohio, American, Harlem, Rikers, hart, Pleasantville, N.J, Tuskegee, ”, Milton, New Jersey, Queens, Queens County, Pensacola, Fla, Atlantic, West, St, Cuba, Trench, Elmhurst , Queens, Havana, Elmhurst, Far Rockaway, Brooklyn, Turners Falls, Iraq, Trinidad, Florida, Afghanistan, they’re, Midtown Manhattan, Bellevue, Hurricane, St ., Creedmoor, Arizona, Farmingdale, Jersey, —, California

☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
▼ + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +57 min

Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.

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