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☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the market Friday: Jobs way up, stocks down, tech tough
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Every penny gained in other tech stocks on the back of Meta Platforms ' (META) earnings surge this week needs to be given up. High growth, growth, no growth, declining growth ... which box are we in for each portfolio stock? Quarterly revenue beat. I say sell, sell, sell Nordstrom. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ How ballroom dance become a refuge for Asian immigrants
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Kimmy Yam | Kimmy Yam Is A Reporter For Nbc Asian America. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Three days a week, Edward Wan, of Bethesda, Maryland, steals away to a ballroom dance studio so he can glide across the floor in the company of older Chinese immigrants like him. Wan, 78, is one of the countless Asian immigrants who’ve regarded ballroom dance as a sort of creative sanctuary, but are now shaken by the two shootings incidents, one of them deadly, that shook California dance halls on Saturday. “It’s an injustice to ballroom dance. Ballroom dance itself is almost like going to learn poetry or sitting down to meditate,” Wan said. Ballroom dance helped him move forward, he said.

☆ NYSE trading glitch, tons of earnings, a Dow comeback — listen to 'The Homestretch'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

WHAT'S NEW, WHAT'S HAPPENEDSINCE THE MORNING MEETING. THERE WAS SOMETHING SO CRAZY,WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET TO THEBOTTOM OF IT, WHICH JEFF WASJUST IN COMPUTER FAILURE. DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHO DID IT,BUT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF STOCKSTHAT WERE UP 10, DOWN 20. AND I THINK WHAT'S MOSTSIGNIFICANT RIGHT NOW IS THATTHE MIGHTY DOW HAS MADE ACOMEBACK FROM AN UGLY OPEN. I DO FEEL, HOWEVER, THAT THESTOCK IS NOT TO BE BOUGHT AHEADOF THE QUARTER, BECAUSE NOW ITSELLS AT 22 TIMES EARNINGS.

☆ Wall Street's rally signals more conviction in the market in 2023 - listen to 'The Homestretch'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

BUT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BEAGGRESSIVE IN BECAUSE THEY DON'TWANT TO BE IN SOMETHING THAT'SABOUT TO REPORT AND HAVE A BADNUMBER. AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE BUYING ARE,YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BUYING BOEING,CATERPILLAR AND SALESFORCE. I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TO BE -- IDON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TO BETHANKFUL ABOUT TAIWAN SEMI. I DON'T THINK IT'S -- I THINKIT'S A -- I DON'T THINK ITMATTERS.

☆ Starc threatens De Bruyn with Mankad after batsman crosses the line
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Ian Ransom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MELBOURNE, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Mitchell Starc threatened South Africa number three Theunis de Bruyn with a 'Mankad' dismissal on Thursday after the batsman wandered way outside his crease at the non-striker's end during the second test in Melbourne. "Just stay in your crease, it’s not that hard," Starc barked at him. During the post-match media conference, Starc said he would consider dismissing players with the Mankad in future if he saw them taking off early like De Bruyn, earning a firm endorsement from his captain Pat Cummins. Starc said De Bruyn had been leaving his crease early on day three in Melbourne as well. Starc will not have the opportunity to Mankad De Bruyn in the next test, having been ruled out of the match due to an injured tendon on the middle finger of his bowling hand.

☆ A-10 pilot reveals what it was like trying to land an attack aircraft that was literally falling apart around her
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Taylor Bye's A-10 attack aircraft started falling apart on a training flight. US Air Force photo by Andrea JenkinsWhen Bye attempted to fire the cannon on a strafing run, she heard a troubling pop. Bye commissioned into the Air Force in 2015 straight out of the United States Air Force Academy, where she first flew. Her first ever solo flight was in a DA20 in Colorado during Air Force pilot training, and the experience, she said, "was so much fun." 995, for the first time since the Air Force maintenance and repair teams finished putting it back together.

☆ Avoid these 5 passive-aggressive phrases that 'irritate' people the most, says speech expert
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( John Bowe | In Johnfbowe | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The most successful communicators get to the point and avoid these phrases that only serve to irritate the listener:1. What to say instead: Legitimate criticism is necessary and even helpful, as long as you're not a jerk about it. Your audience may have no idea that you're upset, much less why you're upset. What to say instead: Examine why you're upset. What to say instead: Be upfront.

A tech entrepreneur in Texas wasn’t given ample time to drop a rifle he was carrying on his own front porch before he was fatally shot by police last month, his devastated family told NBC News. The caller said the police were on scene and the man fired again, police said. Police identified the officer who fired at Moonesinghe as Daniel Sanchez, who is now on administrative leave. Immediately after telling Mr. Moonesinghe to drop the gun, Officer Sanchez fired his Department approved firearm at Mr. Moonesinghe. … It looks like he’s pointing the rifle at the interior of his home.”The caller then alerts the dispatcher that the man fired the rifle.

☆ Merriam-Webster word of the year 2022 is gaslighting. There's hope for 2023.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Judi Ketteler | Judi Ketteler Frequently Writes About Self-Awareness. She Is The Author Of | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

As a person who writes about honesty and deception, I felt a spark of hope Monday when I found out that Merriam-Webster had made “gaslighting” the official word of the year for 2022. We have to engage with issues like gaslighting, including all the ugliness of the ways it’s been done in the past and the ways it’s still happening today. Gaslighting, as Merriam-Webster defines it, is “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.” Our friends at the dictionary choose every year’s word based solely on data: This year saw a 1,740% increase in lookups on Merriam-Webster’s site for the term gaslighting. So while gaslighting is very 2022, it also could have been the word of the year many times before now — indeed, in nearly every period of American history. If we all did this, maybe the word of the year for 2023 would be self-awareness.

☆ Yep, rats can move in under your hood. Here's how to protect your car and avoid a huge repair bill
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rats are taking refuge in cars, chewing through wires and leaving owners with big repair bills. There are three things you can do to help prevent rats from living under the hood of your car. Do not park above or near storm drain basins or openings to sewers – Norway rats are called sewer rats for a reason. One woman told The Times that a rat chewed through a sensor wire in her car, which cost $700 to fix. "What they're doing is inadvertently attracting rats or other rodents onto the property," he said.

☆ Review: I drove the $2.1 million Rimac Nevera electric supercar. It felt like piloting an ultra-luxury rocket.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Alanis King | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The $2.1 million electric supercar Rimac Nevera has 1,914 horsepower and 1,741 pound-feet of torque. But the Rimac Nevera taught me there's still a lot of that to be done on Earth. Alanis KingThe Nevera is a $2.1 million electric supercar from Rimac, a Croatian carmaker founded in 2009 by the now 34-year-old Mate Rimac. Rimac AutomobiliThe Nevera has four electric motors — one for each wheel — that, combined, make 1,914 horsepower and 1,741 pound-feet of torque. "The car will step out a little," they said, referring to the slide a car's wheels do when they begin to lose traction.

☆ Sentencing Elizabeth Holmes to 11-plus years for Theranos fraud was way too much
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Andrey Spektor | Andrey Spektor Is A Litigation Partner At Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner | A Former Federal Prosecutor In New York. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

A federal judge sentenced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and 3 months in prison Friday — too harsh a punishment considering the crime and the defendant. Anyone who claims Holmes received more or less than what she was “supposed to get” does not understand federal sentencing. Federal sentencing can seem arbitrary, but at bottom, it requires a humane and common sense result: Defendants must not be punished more than is absolutely necessary. Most people who are first exposed to federal sentencing — including lawyers — are bewildered by its unpredictability. Anyone who claims Holmes received more or less than what she was “supposed to get” does not understand federal sentencing.

☆ Amazon's email crashed one day after news of mass layoffs, sparking panic among workers that they've been cut
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon reportedly plans to lay off 10,000 employees, largely in its retail, devices and HR divisions. The company's email crashed Tuesday, sparking panic among workers who couldn't connect and thought they had been cut. Employees tell Insider that they are frustrated about the lack of internal communications on lay offs. Workers trying to connect to Amazon's email through the Outlook app Tuesday received an error message, "cannot open the outlook," according to the company's IT Services Incident Management Team's intranet page. Amazon employees had access to other internal tools during the Outlook outage, a spokesperson said.

☆ Smart bombs were a game-changer for militaries. Smart bullets may be next.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Travis Pike | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Smart bullets aren't new, but they're still early in development, and they have some drawbacks. If DARPA, aka the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has its way, smart bullets will become a very real thing. Beyond offensive combative measures, guided smart bullets can be used to defeat future threats from swarming UAVs to incoming missiles. Smart bullets currently availableAs of this writing, smart bullets aren't being deployed. Regardless, smart bullets could provide a new surgical option for snipers, infantrymen, and naval personnel.

☆ Goldman CEO David Solomon warns a US recession is very likely - and says the Fed could hike rates above 4.5%
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the US economy is likely to tumble into a recession. He warned Tuesday the Federal Reserve could hike rates above 4.5% if the inflation threat persists. The first big shift in monetary policy for four decades was bound to be disruptive, Solomon said. The Goldman chief issued a gloomy economic outlook earlier this month, prompting Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to voice his agreement. "In the distribution of outcomes, there's a good chance we could have a recession in the United States," Solomon said.

☆ Even the uber-rich are fretting about the economy now
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN Business —Even the uber-rich are on edge now about the economy. Musk, for his part, was a little more sanguine as he sought (unsuccessfully, in the end) to ease Wall Street’s concerns about Tesla’s growth prospects. Yep, the probabilities in this economy tell you to batten down the hatches. The comments from Musk and Bezos add to a chorus of powerful figures fretting that the economy is going to take a turn for the worse. I want to know.”It’s a reasonable worry: Researchers recently put the probability of a global recession at a little over 98%.

☆ Teen dies after collapsing while singing solo in Chicago choir event, family says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 17-year-old teen died unexpectedly after he collapsed while singing a solo in a choir event in Naperville, Illinois, on Friday, his family and officials said. Courtesy of Moshi family / WMAQ“They told us that while he was doing his solo, he just passed out,” his mother, Karolin Moshi, told the outlet. He had even checked in when he arrived at the Naperville North High School for the choir show, she told NBC Chicago. And she said there’s an incident,” his father, Loden Moshi, told NBC Chicago. A spokesperson for Leyden High School told NBC Chicago that the school's community was grieving Moshi's death.

☆ Jeff Bezos is the latest to warn on the economy, saying it's time to 'batten down the hatches'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has become the latest corporate leader to warn about the state of the economy, cautioning that rougher times are likely ahead. "Yep, the probabilities in this economy tell you batten down the hatches," Bezos said in a comment attached to a clip of Solomon's "Squawk Box" interview. Solomon, the head of the Wall Street financial giant, said it's time for both corporate leaders and investors to understand the risks building up, and to prepare accordingly. Solomon spoke after his firm had just posted quarterly earnings results that beat Wall Street estimates. Moynihan acknowledged that the Fed's efforts could slow the economy, but noted that "the consumer's hanging in there."

☆ Amazon founder Jeff Bezos warns the US economy may slump into a recession - and says people should brace for a painful downturn
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jeff Bezos said the US economy faces a significant risk of recession. "In the distribution of outcomes, there's a good chance we could have a recession in the United States," Solomon said. Recession fears have grown in recent months, partly because the Federal Reserve is actively trying to cool the US economy. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who took the company's reins from Bezos last summer, appears to share his predecessor's concerns. Amazon has been cutting costs, slowing spending, and freezing hiring for certain roles in recent months, suggesting it's expecting a tougher economic backdrop.

☆ I'm a 28-year-old crypto-startup founder who got paid $10,000 to move to Arkansas. More than 66,000 people applied to relocate here, and only 100 got accepted — here's why it's worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Dmitri Love, 28, moved from Dallas to Cave Springs, Arkansas, in 2021. Love, 28, moved from Dallas to Cave Springs, Arkansas, in 2021. Love took advantage of a program that paid remote workers $10,000 to move to the area. From November 2020 to September 2022, more than 66,000 people from all 50 US states and 115 countries applied for the program. Entrepreneurs should find new places to live and provide valuePersonally, there were no drawbacks for me moving back to Arkansas.

After Ukrainian forces stage ambushes and cut off the key access route to the capital, Russian soldiers tell their relatives that the military strategy is failing. … That’s what we’re fucking going to do, it seems. “Frankly speaking, nobody understands why we have to fight this war," Sergey tells his girlfriend. Replay‘I’ll quit at once.’Frustrated by continuous setbacks and fearing for their lives, Russian soldiers say they are fed up with the military. As quickly as they came, the Russian soldiers in northern Kyiv withdrew, regrouped and pivoted east, where Russian-backed separatists have been waging war for over eight years.

☆ Jesse Watters' rise at Fox, from Bill O'Reilly's ambush man to Tucker Carlson wannabe
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

At the time, Watters was best known for pulling off elaborately planned ambush interviews on "The O'Reilly Factor," then Fox News' top-rated show. When Grim picked his phone up and trained it again on Watters, the smile was gone from Watters' face. Watters on the set of his show "Jesse Watters Primetime." In early 2022, "Jesse Watters Primetime" debuted, airing right before "Hannity." Watters, whose entire career has been at Fox News, might be a safer bet, according to Muto, the former O'Reilly producer.

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☆ Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani is speaking out after her company's book series was banned from a Pennsylvania school district. The books were just added to PEN America's Index of School Book Bans, a list of restricted literature around the country. "This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls and what info they have access to," Saujani told Insider. "This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls and what info they have access to." "This is opportunity to start more clubs, get more girls to code, and get more girls to become economically free."

☆ Biden says he plans to run for reelection in 2024, but here's one reporter's lesson from 2008 on why anything is possible
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He said there was no chance of him becoming vice president. They're real," Biden told me that afternoon. Mark Bowden later asked Biden, then vice president, in his West Wing office about that marathon quote. "That was absolutely, positively true when I said it," Biden told him. I never, never, never, never aspired to be vice president.

☆ 'Deadly drop': Hotel housekeeper faces avalanche of laundry showing desperate hotel labor shortage in viral TikTok posts
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One housekeeper uses TikTok to show how much laundry she must fold in an 8-plus hour shift. Zeiber's TikTok videos showing what she calls "deadly drops" from a linen chute into the hotel's laundry room, have gone viral, shocking viewers. In the comments section of her account, Zeiber clarified that she is not the only housekeeper at the hotel, but she's the only person responsible for laundry. Sometimes her workdays last beyond eight hours and include more than just laundry, according to Zeiber. Kasea Zeiber is the only housekeeper responsible for folding laundry in an 126-room hotel in the Pittsburgh area.

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