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☆ How to stay safe in an extreme solar flare, where the sun bombards Earth with radiation and magnetic havoc
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Stay safe during a solar storm by preparing to lose power, printing out maps, and staying off planes. What is a solar flare and how do they affect Earth? CMEs primarily affect the magnetosphere, jostling Earth's magnetic field lines in an event called a geomagnetic storm, also known as a solar storm. NASAGetting ready for the possibility of a major solar flare isn't that different from getting ready for any other disaster. If you follow the basics of disaster preparedness, you'll probably be ready for a solar flare.

The authors noted that “social forces” may have played a part in the accelerated brain aging seen among their Black subjects. A lot of things contribute to dementia and Alzheimer’s, like high blood pressure and diabetes. Pete Comparoni“Elevated blood pressure is a very strong risk factor for worsening cerebrovascular disease,” King said. One option is through activities like restorative yoga, which Grant said can help address stress and regulate blood pressure and brain function. You have to go to your primary care doctor and check your blood pressure and blood sugar level.

If you've been on the hunt for the best Black Friday gaming deals and Xbox discounts, here's a big one: Microsoft has dropped the price of the Xbox Series S for Black Friday, offering it for only $240. That means that you can buy the Xbox Series S at a discount from Microsoft's official online store, as well as other retailers like Amazon. Great Price Xbox Series S During the holidays, Microsoft is offering their budget console, the Xbox Series S, for $60 off. $239.99 from Microsoft Originally $299.99 Save 20%The Xbox Series S is one of Microsoft's two current generation consoles, along with the Xbox Series X. The Xbox Series S is less powerful, has half the storage space, and offers native 1440p gaming, whereas the Xbox Series X can support 4K gaming and has a disc drive that supports 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.

☆ Wall Street's trust issues with crypto won't be easily repaired in the wake of the FTX blowup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trust in the crypto industry — be it with Wall Street firms, politicians, venture capitalists, or the general public — is destroyed thanks to FTX's downfall. It's a bitter pill to swallow when one considers the hard-fought progress crypto had made on Wall Street in recent years. canvassed more than a dozen Wall Street insiders to get a sense of where traditional firms stand on their crypto plans. Meanwhile, firms hoping to bridge the gap between Wall Street and crypto have been put in an impossible spot, answering for another's sins. Click here to read more on how Wall Street is moving forward with its crypto plans in the wake of FTX.

If you've been on the hunt for the best Black Friday gaming deals, here's a big one: Microsoft is dropping the price of the Xbox Series S for the holidays, offering it for only $250. Target in particular is offering a fantastic bundle that gets you the Xbox Series S for $250, along with a $50 Target gift card included at no extra cost. Great Price Xbox Series S During the holidays, Microsoft is offering their budget console, the Xbox Series S, for $50 off. $249.99 from Target Originally $299.99 Save 17%The Xbox Series S is one of Microsoft's two current generation consoles, along with the Xbox Series X. The Xbox Series S is less powerful, has half the storage space, and offers native 1440p gaming, whereas the Xbox Series X can support 4K gaming and has a disc drive that supports 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.

☆ Jim Cramer says the Fed should consider retail earnings over economic data for its inflation strategy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday said the Federal Reserve must pay attention to recent retail earnings reports to plan the rest of its battle against inflation. At the same time, October sales data showed that retail spending increased slightly more than expected. However, Cramer said that the individual retailers' earnings reports are more indicative of the state of the economy than macroeconomic data. TJ Maxx and Marshalls parent TJX Companies reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings boosted by the industry-wide inventory glut. Disclaimer: Cramer's Charitable Trust owns shares of TJX Companies.

Many people with debt or children get life insurance to protect their families. Why life insurance made sense at this point in our livesI know we don't have to carry life insurance. Insider's Featured Life Insurance Companies Lemonade Life InsuranceNationwide Life InsuranceGuardian Life Insurance Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Some may wonder why we chose term life insurance over permanent insurance. Term life is also a lower-cost life insurance policy.

☆ SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The ad campaign SpaceX is buying to promote Starlink is called a Twitter "takeover." Users should see Starlink brand messaging for the first three times that they open the Twitter app on the day or days of the planned takeover campaign in Australia and in Spain. Pressure on Twitter ad salesMusk is also the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla , in addition to his responsibilities at SpaceX and Twitter. Instead, Tesla garners headlines from fan blogs, news sites, and creates buzz through motor clubs, fan or shareholder events and social media engagement.

☆ Crypto: What's next as FTX collapse triggers 'Lehman moment'?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

And can the beaten-down crypto industry bounce back? What’s clear is that the fallout from the FTX crisis injects significant volatility into the crypto ecosystem. “Thank God!”Can the crypto industry survive? “In the short term, this is going to be really, really bad for the crypto industry,” said Jog of Sei Labs. Fok said he expects the FTX collapse will push institutional investors away from the crypto space just as they had been warming up to it.

☆ Year-end rally ignited as inflation cools and rates fall, loosening their grip on stock market
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Patti Domm | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Treasury yields fell sharply and eased their grip on the stock market Thursday, helping fuel the monster rally that broke out after a report of cooler-than-expected inflation data. The rise in yields this year has choked off stock market gains and weighed on technology and growth stocks in particular. In the futures market, traders were betting Thursday that the Fed would raise its fed funds futures rate to 4.88% before stopping next spring. But now there are signs the strong dollar may not be such a drag. ...The strong dollar has been a headwind for earnings, and it will probably become a tail wind.

☆ Here's a rundown of tech companies that have announced layoffs in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Days after Twitter's new boss Elon Musk slashed half his company's workforce, Facebook parent Meta announced its most significant round of layoffs ever. Last month, Meta announced a second straight quarter of declining revenue and forecast another drop in the fourth quarter. The tech industry broadly has seen a string of layoffs in 2022 in the face of uncertain economic conditions. Lyft: around 700 jobs cutLyft announced last week that it cut 13% of its staff, or about 700 jobs. In a letter to employees, CEO Logan Green and President John Zimmer pointed to "a probable recession sometime in the next year" and rising rideshare insurance costs.

☆ ‘The Big One Is Coming’ and the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revealed the fading power of America’s military deterrent, a fact that too few of our leaders seem willing to admit in public. So it is encouraging to hear a senior flag officer acknowledge the danger in a way that we hope is the start of a campaign to educate the American public. “This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” Navy Admiral Charles Richard , commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said this week at a conference. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested” for “a long time.”

☆ I Hated Fishing. Then Fishing Changed My Life.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

We have caught big ones and small ones, and we have lost big and small ones too. Most important, we are now able to bore anyone on earth with a 20-minute story about fishing, which is a true sign we’ve arrived as fishermen. I know it sounds a little silly when you hear fishermen talk about how fishing changed their lives, because they always talk about how fishing changed their lives, but it changed our lives too. We are out there all the time, fishing, trying to add another fish to the list. Jesse, who is 9, likes to say we are addicted, and that’s probably true.

☆ I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor. Here's the 'unpopular' parenting rule I always used on my kids
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Esther Wojcicki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Here's a wake-up call for American parents: We are doing too much for our kids. This is the origin of "helicopter parenting," in which we constantly remove obstacles so that our kids don't have to deal with challenges. 1 was: Don't do anything for your kids that they can do for themselves. All three grew up to be highly successful: Susan is the CEO of YouTube, Janet is a doctor, and Anne is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. It was the learning and the hard work that I wanted to reward, not getting it right the first time.

☆ CFOs Detail Plans to Manage Inflation, Shifts in Consumer Demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Kristin Broughton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

Ian Borden, McDonald’s CFO Photo: McDonald'sThere are really a couple of drivers for this year that resulted in that adjusted outlook. I think what I would say, coming into the role, is certainly it’s an area that I’m going to be focused on. But so far, we’ve seen [a] continued strong impact on our recommendations products from advancing developments in our AI work. We do expect that to be considerably higher than what we’ve seen in the past, reflecting the inflation that we’re dealing with across the business. When we talk about the impact of inflation, it is not just a domestic impact, it’s international as well.

☆ Ryan Fox: Heir to cricket and rugby excellence, New Zealand golfer blazes his own trail
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesThen came Wallace’s son-in-law Grant Fox, a name that needs no introduction to anyone familiar with rugby. Both Wallace and Fox were individually honored during Queen Elizabeth’s reign for services to their sports. If that wasn’t enough family sporting heritage, Wallace’s brother and son – George and Gregory – both played first-class cricket for Auckland. “It’s pretty cool to be the third generation of my family to represent New Zealand,” Fox told CNN’s The Jazzy Golfer. Marty Melville / Getty ImagesNot playing his first tournament until 18, Fox was a late bloomer, but made up for lost time emphatically.

☆ Raising your partner is a relationship 'red flag': Here are 3 signs you might be doing it and how to stop
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I think that in itself can be a bit of a red flag in a relationship," she says. Here are signs you are raising your partner, and how to stop. "If you need your partner to be doing certain things in certain ways in order for you to feel safe and happy, that is a sign of overdependence," she says. If you need your partner to be doing certain things in certain ways in order for you to feel safe and happy, that is a sign of overdependence. Lisa Bobby Therapist2 ways to help let go of the desire to raise your partner

☆ I started my glamping business in 2020 as a solopreneur. Today, I have 3 employees who've helped me scale operations and grow.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Young hired his first employees once the business started to grow and gain more customers. That same year, he moved to Phoenix, where he now operates a second location, and generated more than $125,000 in annual revenue, Insider previously reported. Last year, his business generated more than $151,000 in revenue, which Insider verified with documentation. When you know it's time to hireWhen I started my business in March 2020, I knew I didn't want to be an owner-operator. So hiring employees is a learning experience, not just in how to lead them and manage them but also in how to fully trust them to do a good job and to relinquish that control.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg in 2012: 'We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Matt Rosoff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Revenue generally tracked to operating income growth. For instance, in that troubling mid-2018 earnings report, annualized quarterly revenue growth of 42% translated into operating income growth of 33%. For the full year of 2021, revenue growth of 37% translated into operating income growth of 43%. That translated to a shocking 46% decline in operating income. Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

☆ Here's how midterm elections could make or break the stock market
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

All that, plus there's the fast-approaching midterm elections that hold plenty more implications for investors. Historically, stocks shoot higher after midterm elections. Basically, the market usually reacts to midterms well because they are predictable in the sense that politicians can't make radical legislative changes. Attention stock market investors: The Fed could keep rates elevated for up to a year. Goldman Sachs detailed how to invest in each stock-market sector to best protect your portfolio from inflation and higher interest rates.

☆ Volkswagen: we have never had supply chain shortages like today
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Victoria Waldersee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) is entering into direct purchase agreements in unprecedented areas to tackle the worst supply chain shortages the company has seen, its purchasing chief Murat Aksel said on Tuesday. The carmaker was also building a database to help predict geopolitical, natural and supply chain risks ahead of time, as it did for financial risks after the 2008 financial crisis, Aksel added. "We never used to talk to mining operators - now we know their business model," Aksel told a conference in Berlin. "It is no longer enough to rely on Tier 1 suppliers - we need to look behind the curtains ourselves." Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Victoria Waldersee, Editing by Miranda Murray and Tomasz JanowskiOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Starbucks is a buy after shares fall on worries over China's reopening policy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Starbucks says it plans on opening a new store every nine hours over the next three years. About 10 years ago, the average China consumer drank less than 3 cups of coffee a year, according to Starbucks. Another key reason behind Starbucks' aggressive China expansion plans is the expected return on investment in its stores. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. A Starbucks store is seen inside the Tom Bradley terminal at LAX airport in Los Angeles, California.

☆ These stocks reporting next week typically beat the Street and trade higher
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Carmen Reinicke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Of the roughly 20% of companies that have reported quarterly results so far, 72% have beat expectations, according to FactSet data. Technology giant Apple , which is slated to report earnings Oct. 27, is also on the list. JPMorgan recently reiterated its overweight rating on shares of Apple ahead of its earnings report next week. Mastercard is another large company that's included in the list, with a 94% earnings beat rate and average earnings day move of 2%. Teledyne has an earnings beat rate of 100%, according to the Bespoke data.

☆ How getting dog food delivered to your door explains the inefficient, sometimes absurd, extremely convenient way online orders are shipped
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Industry analysts predict that the amount of dog food ordered online will surpass what's bought in stores by 2025, a shift accelerated drastically by the coronavirus pandemic. Of course, it's not just dog food increasingly being bought online. Even with all those extra vehicles, it's tough to compare the emissions generated by online orders with those of in-store shopping. The mess of overlapping networks that bring our dog food to our doorsteps is always evolving in search of greater efficiency. The mess of overlapping networks that bring our dog food to our doorsteps is always evolving in search of greater efficiency.

☆ I'm a 22-year-old student making $200 an hour as a notary signing agent. It's shocking how much I can make for such an easy side hustle.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Dorothy Cucci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Andrea Morgan is a 22-year-old notary signing agent who makes up to $200 for a single signing. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrea Morgan, a 22-year-old student and notary signing agent who works in California. A notary signing agent is quite different from a notary public. It only took me $1,600 to start my business as a certified notary signing agentAfter I became a notary public, I had to become a certified notary signing agent. You can literally Google "notary signing services near me" to find them, but there are also popular platforms that notary signing agents use, such as SigningOrder, Snapdocs, and Notary Rotary.

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