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☆ Ulta, Bath & Body Works, CeraVe, E.l.f. Cosmetics, and SheaMoisture among beauty favorites for female teens, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Sarah Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ulta is still the most popular beauty store for all female teens, according to a semiannual survey. Out of the 6,670 female teens surveyed, 29% of upper-income female teens and 40% of average-income female teens chose Bath & Body Works as their favorite source for fragrances. Upper-income female teens are spending slightly less for perfumes at $62 every year compared with $67 a year spent on perfumes by average-income female teens. While female teens with wealthier incomes spent $93 last fall on hair care products, female teens with average income spent $91 a year. However, Olaplex was the most popular hair care brand for 14% of upper-income female teens, and the second most popular for female teens with average incomes.

☆ Low-cost airline Breeze is launching 19 new routes next year from $29 one-way as it beefs up its leisure network — see the full list
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Fares start at $99 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Charleston or Richmond, depending on the day. Fares start at $99 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Las Vegas. Fares start at $69 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Orlando. Fares start at $29 one-way. Fares start at $89 one-way and be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via White Plains.

☆ Sunflowers, war and drought: Why the price of margarine and butter spiked 32%
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Margarine prices swelled by about 4% in the month from August to September, meaning they've continued to trend upward in the short term. 1 producer and exporter of sunflower oil, which accounts for 9% of all vegetable oil produced globally. "Supplies of these alternatives are expected to be tight in the 2021/22 marketing year, contributing to elevated vegetable oil prices." Palm oil accounts for 35% of all vegetable oil made globally, the largest share relative to the aforementioned oil commodities. Annual oil prices — and those of its byproducts, like gasoline and diesel — skyrocketed as a result.

☆ Whole Foods is quietly raising prices on small brands and industry insiders worry the grocer could be returning to its 'whole paycheck' image
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Whole Foods is raising prices on some emerging brands, according to food-industry insiders. Whole Foods' recent price increases are larger than many expected, even with inflation. Brokers act as advocates for food brands, especially when it comes to working with retailers to increase brands' distribution. But Whole Foods' recent price increases are larger than many expected, even with inflation, according to the consultants Insider spoke to. "I am concerned that the price increases at the retail level have been significantly higher than that," she said.

☆ The Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz seems stalled, attorneys say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +21 min

Those included a stalking charge for falsely smearing a political rival as a pedophile, identity theft and sex trafficking the same 17-year-old who is the alleged victim in the Gaetz case. The alleged victim, who turned 18 in December 2017, did not answer requests for comment from NBC News. Also according to that plea agreement, the alleged victim falsely claimed she was of age on her SeekingArrangement profile. The Gaetz investigation became public in March 2021, after The New York Times reported the general contours of the investigation. The potential witnesses in the federal government’s inquiry into Gaetz is not limited to Greenberg, the alleged victim and Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend.

☆ What impact does ETF trading have on the marketplace?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | 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 EmailWhat impact does ETF trading have on the marketplace? Herb Greenberg, Empire Financial research editor, and CNBC's Bob Pisani join 'Power Lunch' to discuss what Pisani is seeing from retail investors this past week, Greenberg's sense of the catalyst in interest for ETFs and more.

☆ 13 Unique Gifts for Men Who Have Everything
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

From the cocktail gadget that will level-up his drinks to the ultimate undershirts, these are presents you can purchase with confidence—no gift receipt required. While both the V-neck and crew come in black, white and gray, she prefers the beige shade because it doesn’t show under a white shirt. For utilitarian typesLike the little black dress of menswear, this casual blazer made of knit cotton will take him from the office to date night. “Top Chef” finalist and Washington, D.C.-based chef and restaurateur Spike Mendelsohn is a fan of the contraption. Even better, the jean material “came ready-to-wear with no awkward break-in period, plus a custom liner.”

☆ Donald Trump says a simple disclaimer gives him immunity from fraud. Could he have a point?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The statements were unsealed last week as part of NY AG Letitia James' fraud lawsuit against Trump. Trump told Sean Hannity the disclaimers absolve him of responsibility and the AG has "no case." "We have a disclaimer," Trump told the Fox News host. But Trump told Hannity none of that would matter because each Statement of Financial Condition begins with a warning. The opening paragraphs of the disclaimer for Donald Trump's 2012 Statement of Financial Condition (highlights added).

☆ The U.S. and China need to resume talks over Taiwan — away from the public eye, says think tank
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The United States and China need to reopen dialogue over the Taiwan issue — but such a conversation should take place discreetly, an analyst said. Cross-strait tensions between China and Taiwan have become "increasingly dangerous" ever since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit in early August, he added. On top of that, China announced in the same month that it had shelved military and climate talks with the United States. Taiwan is a self-ruled democracy, but Beijing considers the island part of its territory and a breakaway province. "The Chinese have pulled down the dialogue in the aftermath of Pelosi's visit.

☆ What's next now that Letitia James has sued Donald Trump? A slow-motion, 'eye-glazing' battle of lawyers, experts
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

NY AG Letitia James sued Donald Trump, his three eldest kids, and Trump Organization on Wednesday. "This is going to be an eye-glazing battle" of experts and lawyers, before the lawsuit even goes to trial, one ex-prosecutor, Armen Morian, said of what's to come. He prosecuted the New York AG's case against Hank Greenberg, the one-time CEO of insurance giant AIG. That's the Manhattan judge who repeatedly ruled against Trump in the two-year lead-in to the AG's lawsuit. "She will pay for bringing such an aggressive, gargantuan, and unwieldy case," Morian predicted, "assuring that this case will move at a snail's pace, to the defendants' advantage."

☆ My startup failed after I invested 6-figures and 2 years of my life. Here are 5 things I should've done differently
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jenna Gyimesi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

10 years after Greenberg's first startup failed, she reflects on 5 things she wishes she knew before becoming an entrepreneur. I got into investment banking hoping to gain the experience and money needed to launch my own startup. The idea wasn't bad, the business model wasn't bad, the execution... was questionableI funded the project with my own savings. Be careful when outsourcingI was no coding expert so I hired an outsourced tech team to build the app. So if you build in the features you need and know how to access them, you won't need to rely on outsourced tech team members.

☆ Letitia James vs. Donald J. Trump: What is New York's attorney general about to do to Trump and his company?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

NY AG Letitia James is about to sue Donald Trump and his real estate and golf resort business. Whatever James has up her sleeve after three long years of investigating the Trump Organization, it is now about to be revealed. A: James will sue the Trump Organization and Trump himself, the company's sole owner and beneficiary. Morian predicted James' lawsuit will closely mirror the allegations in a 115-page memorandum she filed in January. A: The New York-incorporated Trump Organization is an umbrella for some 500 other entities, many of them Delaware-registered LLCs.

☆ He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-16 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

It was a hot July day and the classroom at Rosemead High School should have been empty. (Christopher Vu for Insider) Show less Rosemead High School sits just east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. Burgess as an upperclassman at Rosemead High School with the former teacher Hugh Zegers, center, and classmates. The author interviewing Rod Marinelli, a Rosemead High School alum who was then coaching the Detroit Lions, for the Rosemead student newspaper, the Panther's Tale. The author and a classmate, Amy Julia Harris, beside their journalism teacher Burgess at graduation night in June 2007.

Persons: Eric Burgess, Burgess, Brian Bristol, Christopher Vu, Alex Rai, Brian Day, —, Edward Zuniga, I'd, Dwain Crum, Harold Greenberg, Rai, Paul Arevalo, Arevalo, Diane Bladen, Rosemead, Bladen, Eric, weren't, Hugh Zegers, Rebecca Zisser, who'd, Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Eric Burgess, Rod Marinelli, groomers, Daniel Pollack, Pollack, Matt Drange, Mia Nakao, Nakao, Lois Heilemann, Heilemann, Mia Nakao's, …, Larry Callaham, Catherine, fondling, She'd, they'd, Catherine grappled, Terri Amborn, Amborn, Sarah, she'd, Burgess's, didn't, Burgess texted Sarah, couldn't, Burgess wouldn't, I'm, Uber, Felipe Ibarra, I've, he'd, Sarah doesn't, She's, Amy Julia Harris, Harris Organizations: Rosemead, Bristol, Rosemead High, Facebook, School, Detroit Lions, High School, Rosemead High School, High, Cal State LA, Tower Records, Monte Union High School District, Starbucks Locations: Bristol, Burgess, Rosemead, Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, California, McDonald's, Detroit, chameleons, Bladen, mdrange

In that environment, crooks were easily able to impersonate jobless Americans using stolen identity information for sale in bulk in the dark corners of the internet. When Yvonne Matlock lost her job last year and applied for unemployment benefits online, she was told she was already getting relief money. Through a public records request, NBC News obtained data from the Labor Department, which funds Covid relief unemployment benefits programs, that are riddled with blank values and underestimates. ID.meMore than two-thirds of states, 34, reported no cases of identity theft overpayments in the most vulnerable unemployment benefits program. Cash App, which describes itself as "the easiest way to send money, spend money, save money, and buy cryptocurrency," has been frequently used by fraudsters to move money, law enforcement officials and private consultants said.

☆ Noul lockdown, al treilea, va costa Israelul aproape două miliarde de dolari
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Costul noului lockdown la nivel naţional legat de coronavirus în Israel va fi în total de 6 miliarde de şekeli (aproximativ 1,86 miliarde dolari SUA), a declarat joi Ministerul de Finanţe al ţării, citat de agenţia Xinhua, citată de Agerpres. Acesta va fi al treilea lockdown impus în Israel şi va intra în vigoare duminică la ora locală 17:00. Lockdown-ul va include restricţii de circulaţie, închideri de magazine, reducerea activităţii la locurile de muncă, a transportului public şi sistemului educaţional, precum şi limitarea adunărilor. Shira Greenberg, economistul-şef al ministerului, a declarat că acest lockdown va costa economia israeliană 3 miliarde de şekeli pe săptămână, măsura fiind planificată în prezent pentru două săptămâni. Cu toate acestea, potrivit unui studiu realizat pentru Camera Organizaţiilor şi Afacerilor Independente din Israel, daunele totale aduse economiei israeliene din cauza viitorului lockdown vor ajunge la 26,8 miliarde de şekeli.

Persons: Shira Greenberg Organizations: Agerpres, Independente Locations: Israel, SUA, israeliană, israelian

☆ EXCLUSIV // DOC // Implicarea lui Vladimir Plahotniuc în SCHEME ce vizează energia electrică: Adevăr sau Fals
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-09 | by ( De Către | Please Enter Your Name Here | ) safenews.md time to read: +4 min

Este afirmația lui Igor Popa, fost avocat al lui Vlad Filat. Fiind invitat în cadrul unei emisiuni televizate, Popa a prezentat o schemă care demonstrează faptul că Vladimir Plahotniuc ar fi beneficiarul unor companii. Eu voi transmite și procurorilor moldoveni ca să o investigheze, dacă asta nu se investighează deja, a încheiat Igor Popa. Menționăm că Andronachi era considerat un apropiat al fostului lider PD, Vladimir Plahotniuc și persoana sa de legătură în schemele de la Metalferos sau importurile de energie electrică. Din partea ”ИНТЕР РАО ЕЭС” de către Țurcan Carina Valeiu, iar din partea Republicii Moldova de către Andronachi Vladimir, deputat în Palament.

Persons: Vladimir Plahotniuc, Igor Popa, Vlad Filat, Popa, Plahotniuc, Greenberg, Vladimir Andronachi, Țurcan Organizations: Gas Natural Fenosa, Partidul Democrat, PD, ОАО БАС МАРКЕТ ., ОАО БАС МАРКЕТ . ООО ГазТоп, ГАЗПРОМ ИНТЕР РАО ЕЭС, ИНТЕР РАО ЕЭС Locations: SUA, transnistriene, Moldova, S.A, transnistria, Grigoriopol, ȘEVCIUC, Federația Rusă, Kremlin, Republicii Moldova, Palament

☆ Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-24 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016. A representative for Priorities USA Action, a leading pro-Biden super PAC, said the organization wasn't underestimating Trump's reelection forces, Mercers or no Mercers. (Bossie, like former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and many others, has recently found himself back in Trump's favor.) The Cambridge Analytica data that the Trump campaign paid for was "so stupidly wrong" and a "complete joke," Spicer added. But sources familiar with the Mercers' political spending said they have no evidence that the Mercers are doing so.

☆ Here's how to stop an argument with a narcissist from spinning out of control
▼ + stars: | 2018-02-11 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

For many people, the best thing to do is to leave a narcissist and cut them out of their life. If this isn't possible there are some tactics you can use to stop the argument escalating. If the narcissist is physically abusive, the tiniest inconvenience can cause them to throw things or even strike their partner. According to Greenberg, a narcissist will not be comfortable with the idea that they started an argument over something trivial, so it's best to just move on. Remember to put yourself firstMost experts believe being in a romantic relationship with a narcissist is an emotionally draining, damaging process.

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