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☆ He makes the best baguette in Paris, but he’s not French
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Oliver Briscoe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Paris CNN —The humble baguette is the epitome of French baking. The perfect loaf, delicately crusty outside, soft and airy inside, is worth the airfare to Paris all on its own. For the contest, bakers are judged specifically on their “baguette de tradition,” a designation that differentiates good-quality loaves from industrially made rivals. Polski is a veteran of the Paris contest, having presided over it for almost a decade. There is not one neighborhood today without fresh bread, Polski says.

☆ Here's the outlook for bitcoin as the cryptocurrency struggles to reclaim the all-important $30,000 technical level
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The price of bitcoin is testing a pivotal level that could determine whether strength or weakness is ahead. The cryptocurrency needs to decisively clear $30,000 to test its $35,200 resistance level, according to Fairlead Strategies. If bitcoin can decisively clear that threshold, Stockton expects the cryptocurrency to trend toward its key resistance level at $35,900, representing potential upside of 24%. While Stockton is bearish on bitcoin in the short term and bullish on bitcoin in the intermediate term, she remains neutral on the cryptocurrency for the long term, proving just how mixed the technical outlook for bitcoin is. "We are long-term neutral despite improved intermediate-term momentum given the additional hurdle from the monthly cloud... the cloud is now a headwind, acting as long-term resistance," Stockton said.

☆ JPMorgan turns cautious on Amazon, TikTok faces ban — our Club takes on the news
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Club holdings Meta Platforms (META) and Amazon (AMZN) are in the news Tuesday. TikTok has seen robust growth since it launched in 2016, competing with Reels at Meta Platforms (META) and Alphabet 's (GOOGL) YouTube Shorts. JPMorgan cautious on Amazon AMZN 1Y mountain Amazon's performance over the last 12 months. The news: JPMorgan said investor sentiment on Amazon (AMZN) stock is near multi-year lows, in a research note Thursday. JPMorgan kept an overweight rating on AMZN stock, but lowered its price target to $135 from $142.

☆ Nvidia stock jumps on Wall Street praise, bolstering the Club case in the chipmaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Fourteen of those 18 analysts rate the stock a buy, or buy equivalent, compared with four who maintain hold ratings. But Goldman Sachs was the only bank to raise its stock rating on Nvidia, to buy from neutral, making its research note on the chipmaker Thursday's most notable. In addition to now recommending clients buy Nvidia stock, Goldman boosted its 12-month price target to $275 a share from $162. Big picture NVDA 1Y mountain Nvidia's stock performance over the past 12 months. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ I helped create a 'cyber army' to help Ukraine defeat Russia. We can't fight with guns, but we can fight with our laptops.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Yegor Aushev appealed for volunteers for a "cyber army" to help Ukraine defeat Russia. Within the first few days of the war, we separated the cyber army into groups of between 7 to 10 people. Our call for decentralized cyber army volunteers is probably what inspired others to create their own groups, such as Ukraine's IT army, formed a few days later by the minister of digitization, Mykhailo Fedorov. Another project involved using tech to recognize who was in photos left by Russian soldiers in Bucha near Kyiv. If it was a couple hundred Russian SIMs, of course it's Russian soldiers and not tourists.

☆ The job you want has 1,200 applicants — but your odds are better than you think
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But Claudia Garcia, a recruiter, said that the ease of online applications inflates the numbers. So while getting the job might look like a long shot, your odds are better than you think. That's according to Claudia Garcia, a senior specialty recruiter for Pontoon Solutions, which is part of the staffing company The Adecco Group. "Don't be intimidated," Claudia Garcia, a senior specialty recruiter for Pontoon Solutions, said. The lesson for job seekers is clear: While getting the job might look like a long shot based on the sheer number of applicants, your odds are better than you think.

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which profiles people around the world and details how they earn, spend and save their money. Lucas and Yana Bononi in New York City. CNBC Make It"I always was very ambitious and saw this as the place for me," Yana tells CNBC Make It. Lucas and Yana Bononi at an art exhibition. Yana Bononi filming a fashion shoot.

☆ Blackstone's real-estate strategy, laid out in a leaked transcript, sets the stage for tenant battles over evictions and rising rents
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The major real-estate investor Blackstone is playing defense as tenants scrutinize its policies. This week, tenants addressed Blackstone and an investor, UC Investments, to raise concerns. A transcript of an executive's remarks, obtained by Insider, sheds light on Blackstone's strategy. It is Blackstone, the New York-based investment giant that has become the world's largest real-estate investor. Vik Sawhney, Blackstone's chief administrative officer and global head of institutional client solutions, introduced Meghji, according to the transcript.

☆ Southwest Airlines hiring a new PR advisor after holiday mess but social media scoffs that even 'free flights' wouldn't make them apply
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Social media users are calling out the ad in the wake of the airline's holiday travel meltdown. Probably an easier job," one Facebook user wrote. Facebook users were quick to comment and joke about the ad, which the Dallas-based airline published on LinkedIn Tuesday. Probably an easier job," one Facebook user commented, according to the New York Post. Despite the high number of applicants, most commenters didn't seem interested in the wake of Southwest's travel meltdown.

☆ Apple workers in Australia plan Christmas strike
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Praveen Menon | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

SummarySummary Companies About 200 Apple workers to strike ahead of Christmas weekendStriking workers asking for better work conditions, wagesIndustrial action comes at peak time for Apple salesSYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Apple workers in Australia are preparing to go on a strike ahead of Christmas to demand better working conditions and wages, union leaders and staff said, a move likely to hurt the iPhone maker's sales and services in the country. read moreMembers of Australia's Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) are asking Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for fixed rosters, known hours of work, weekends of two consecutive days and an agreed annual wage rise. Striking workers would walk out of Apple's retail outlets at 3 p.m. (0400 GMT) on Dec. 23 and stay away throughout Christmas Eve, usually a peak time for sales of Apple iPhones, watches and other products. In June this year Apple workers in Maryland became the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionise in the United States. Apple workers staged a full day strike in October and also a one-hour walkout later that month.

☆ The Associated Press is offering early retirement to around 200 older staffers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Elaine Low | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Some 200 AP staffers are being offered retirement packages that will allow them to take their pension in a lump sum. The move will allow the AP to "reinvest any savings into people, technology and infrastructure," said a spokesperson. Around 200 Associated Press staffers near retirement age are being offered the opportunity to take their pensions in one lump sum, Insider has learned. The move is the latest by the AP to reduce its pension obligation, which costs the news cooperative millions of dollars a year. "We are offering some staff nearing retirement age the choice to take their pension benefit as a lump sum," an AP rep said.

☆ 29-year-old who quit her job now makes $9,100 a month organizing closets: I can make the same amount in half the time
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Now, she makes up to $9,100 per month and uses that money to travel and support herself in between acting jobs. She upped her hours and prices, helping her find and take on organizing jobs paying up to $1,200 apiece. Those funds enabled her to quit her assistant job and move to Los Angeles in 2019 to pursue more acting roles, which net her an additional $10,000 to $20,000 per year, she says. She stopped teaching in order to take a personal assistant job she hoped would help her focus more on her acting career, which she had dreamed of pursuing from a young age. Business slowly grew until she quit her personal assistant job in 2019, freeing up more hours for TaskRabbit gigs.

☆ The Associated Press is offering older staffers the option to retire and take their pensions in one lump sum
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Elaine Low | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Some 200 AP staffers are being offered retirement packages that will allow them to take their pensions in a lump sum. The move will allow the AP to "reinvest any savings into people, technology and infrastructure," said a spokesperson. Around 200 Associated Press staffers near retirement age are being offered the opportunity to take their pensions in one lump sum, Insider has learned. The move is the latest by the AP to reduce its pension obligation, which costs the news cooperative millions of dollars a year. "We are offering some staff nearing retirement age the choice to take their pension benefit as a lump sum," an AP rep said.

☆ Real-estate bigwigs harshly punished for illegally discriminating against low-income renters could be a turning point in fair-housing law enforcement
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Washington, DC, real-estate firms who discriminated against low-income renters face a record fine. The historic settlement in DC could trigger harsher penalties for unfair landlords across the country, two housing experts said. The Section 8 program offers qualifying low-income households vouchers to subsidized rents in buildings not designated as affordable housing. Sedgwick Gardens is an apartment complex that DARO Management used to manage. The same study found that only 15% of DC landlords refused to accept vouchers.

☆ Apartment conversions jumped 25% over the past two years, meaning that swanky place you're renting likely used to be an office space, hotel room, or church.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Developers converted more old buildings into rentals than ever before between 2020 and 2021. Developers are targeting a range of building types, from office buildings to churches. That represents a 25% increase over the more than 22,300 apartments developers converted between the years of 2018 and 2019, prior to the pandemic. "Larger office buildings in abandoned central business districts are better suited to conversion than the often-smaller office complexes distributed around the suburbs." Local governments have gotten behind the trend by creating incentives for conversion projects.

☆ A 27-year-old college dropout earning $135,000 a year explains 4 things that were more valuable for her career than getting a degree
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She has four keys to success for anyone without a college degree. Today, the 27-year-old is earning $135,000 per year as marketing manager for a software-as-a-service company — and has no plans to finish her degree. She says this time in her life was "really, really hard." 4 keys to succeeding without a college degreeTragesser lists four considerations for anyone hoping to find success without a college degree. Some people still ask when she's going to return to get her college degree, but she has no interest in taking on the financial burden.

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