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☆ I wear pigtails to my waitressing job because men tip better when I do. It grosses me out, but the money is worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Fortesa Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers — and it worked. In it, women realized that if they wore their hair in pigtails, they made more money in tips. I've thought about why me and so many other waitresses have found such success in wearing pigtails to work, and it kind of grosses me out. If you're flirty and bubbly and wearing pigtails, they really like it. The comments I get while wearing pigtails do make me feel weirdI mean, I know everyone has their own fetishes, and I don't want to judge them.

☆ I'm still at Twitter and have a front-row seat watching everything fall apart. At this point, I'm just trying to collect a paycheck.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

From the week leading up to Elon Musk's acquisition to the lay-offs week and this week gone, it's been a very weird and tiring time. It happened to be the same day that the Twitter offices were holding big Halloween events and had it decorated. Remote work was a big cultural hitA lot of people work remotely full-time or for at least two days a week. I'm sitting around and just collecting my paycheckI'm now interviewing around and trying to find something with big players. The Twitter that we had as an employer is gone and it won't be a fun place to work.

☆ VIEW Rishi Sunak to become Britain's new PM, UK markets rally
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak will be Britain's next prime minister after his rivals quit the race, which analysts said had relieved some of the nervousness around the outlook for the UK economy, boosting domestic markets. The new Prime Minister needs to confirm their leadership team as soon as possible and provide clarity on their strategy for stabilising the economy and their policy priorities. ART HOGAN, CHIEF MARKET STRATEGIST, B. RILEY WEALTH, NEW YORK:"Coming to a very rapid decision on who the prime minister is going be certainly breathes a sigh of relief into the markets. RUTH GREGORY, SENIOR UK ECONOMIST, CAPITAL ECONOMICS, LONDON:"The fall in gilt yields on the news today that Rishi Sunak will become the UK’s next Prime Minister has reduced the chances of a significant fiscal consolidation. With the pound, just because we have a new Prime Minister in place, all of the issues don't just go away and we still have remarkable strength being enjoyed by the dollar."

☆ Chinese stocks tumble to multi-year lows in New York and Hong Kong amid party congress
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN Business —Chinese stocks have hit multi-year lows in New York and Hong Kong amid growing concerns about China’s rising Covid cases and economic outlook. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng (HSI) Index tumbled as much as 3% in Thursday’s morning trade. The fall comes just a day after the city’s leader, Chief Executive John Lee, promised to invest billions of dollars to bring global talent and businesses back to Hong Kong. The heavy decline followed a sharp sell-off in Chinese stocks listed on Wall Street overnight. “China’s National Party Congress failed to drive a positive catalyst, ” said Yeap Jun Rong, a market strategist for IG Group, on Thursday.

☆ I own a famously 'haunted' Airbnb in Salem. The spooky reputation keeps it booked all Halloween — here's how we run it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Ann Matica | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Phil Marchand is the owner of the historic Henry Derby House in Salem, Massachusetts. In 2015, he turned the bed and breakfast he was running into an Airbnb that caters to large groups. The Henry Derby House was built in 1838 in Salem, Massachusetts. The room off of the kitchen that Phil and Jocelyn Marchand lived in while running the bed and breakfast. If we don't end up moving back into the house at some point, we'll probably keep it as an Airbnb.

☆ Reactions: UK's Truss fires Kwarteng, set to U-turn on tax cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and news reports said she will scrap later on Friday parts of the economic programme of big, unfunded tax cuts that they delivered last month. Consequently, the scope for a rally in gilts (move lower in yields) and sterling would seem to be limited." BENJAMIN NABARRO, ECONOMIST, CITI"The key issue in the near term is the contradiction between monetary and fiscal policy. RACHEL REEVES, OPPOSITION LABOUR PARTY'S FINANCE CHIEF"This humiliating u-turn is necessary - but the real damage has already been done. We may well be through the worst of the volatility but I fear that the UK is nowhere near out of the woods."

☆ UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng has been fired as the government waters down tax cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng was fired from his role on Friday. His tax cut proposals have rattled markets for weeks, with yields on gilts soaring. Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to announce a policy U-turn at 9AM Eastern Time. Chief finance minister Kwarteng's pledges to carry on cutting income and corporation tax have rattled markets in recent weeks, with yields on gilts – UK government bonds – soaring. Read more: Pound crashes to record low against the dollar as UK tax cut plans rattle investors

☆ Explainer: Why is Bank of England acting again? What next in the UK crisis?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A general view of the Bank of England (BoE) building, the BoE confirmed to raise interest rates to 1.75%, in London, Britain, August 4, 2022. WHY IS THE BANK OF ENGLAND BUYING BONDS AGAIN? By buying bonds, the BoE is seeking to reverse what it sees as "dysfunction" in the bond market. Specifically, the central bank was seeking to address problems facing pension funds, a source familiar with the decision said. By temporarily acting as a buyer for the bonds, the BoE aims to prevent panic selling.

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☆ Reactions: Britain's finance minister unveils "mini budget"
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Britain's blue-chip stocks (.FTSE)remained mired in the red, in line with a broader equity-market decline. FOREX: Sterling extended losses, falling 1.9% on the day to around $1.1047, having hit a new 37-year low earlier on. British homebuilders and household goods makers hit session highs, buoyed by the prospect of consumers getting tax breaks. The tax-cutting budget and ‘go for broke’ growth aims are unlikely to change the longer-term bearish GBP trend." If you get more fiscal stimulus and less monetary stimulus, that’s something that’s buoyant for the currency.

☆ Bank of England hikes interest rates 50 basis points as it battles to tame soaring inflation and prop up the plummeting pound
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Bank of England hiked interest rates by 50 basis points Thursday. It's trying to curb soaring prices, with UK inflation running close to a four-decade high at 9.8%. The bank's monetary policy committee voted 5 to 4 in favor of raising rates by 50 basis points. The bank's decision comes after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates by 75 basis points for a third time in a row Wednesday, as it also battles to tame soaring inflation in the US. The Federal Open Market Committee raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday, marking the third consecutive hike of that size.

☆ Energy, consumer staples lift London's FTSE 100 in big week for central banks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Bansari Mayur Kamdar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe London Stock Exchange Group offices are seen in the City of London, Britain, December 29, 2017. The commodity-heavy FTSE 100 (.FTSE) advanced 0.2% at 0809 GMT after a holiday to mark Queen Elizabeth's funeral, supported by a more than 1% jump in oil majors BP (BP.L) and Shell (SHEL.L). Consumer staples stocks such as Diageo (DGE.L) and British American Tobacco (BATS.L) rose about 1.5% each on the internationally focussed FTSE 100. "The move today on the FTSE 100 shows just how sensitive the index is to the economy in China," said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Bansari Mayur Kamdar in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza and Sriraj KalluvilaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationCompanies Meta Platforms Inc FollowWASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A big group of U.S. states, led by New York, argued to an appeals court Monday that it should reinstate an antitrust lawsuit against Meta's (META.O) Facebook because of ongoing harm from the company's actions and because the states had not waited too long to file their complaint. She said the states' action was more akin to law enforcement so "laches," which forbids an unreasonable delay in filing, would not apply. The states are asking the three-judge panel on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reinstate a lawsuit filed in 2020, the same time that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued the company. Arguing for Facebook, which had succeeded in getting the state lawsuit thrown out, Aaron Panner argued that the two acquisitions were well-publicized at the same, as was the company's policies regarding third-party apps. Facebook has been accused of punishing apps on its platform that, for example, connect with other social networks.

☆ Britons gather in squares and parks to say goodbye to Queen Elizabeth
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

People gather to watch the funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth on a large screen in Holyrood Park Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, September 19, 2022. REUTERS/Russell CheyneRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterEDINBURGH/WINDSOR, England, Sept 19 (Reuters) - In airport lounges, parks, pubs and city squares, people gathered in front of screens across Britain on Monday to watch the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth. Some kept their heads bowed, others wiped away tears as Britain said goodbye to its longest serving monarch, who died on Sept. 8 aged 96. Gurminder Kaur got up early to drive from Essex in southeast England to Windsor, where the queen will be buried later on Monday. “The (London) queue had a festival atmosphere, and you just had the adrenaline keeping you going," Kaur said.

☆ 'I love the sense of community': Meet the 31-year-old living in a building of retirees in Naples, Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-04 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

When Liz White visited her parents in Naples, Florida last year, she had no idea she would end up with an apartment of her own in the same building full of retirees. In 2021, White was living in downtown Philadelphia when her job as a marketing account director became fully remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In White's parents' building, all of the residents meet the age requirement, with the exception of White. They knew what they were getting when I asked to rent their apartment," White said. Part of living in a retiree building means that White tends to go on early dinner dates.

☆ I plan Instagram-worthy bachelorette weekend in places like Joshua Tree and Palm Springs. Here's my advice for having the best event.
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-07 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

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