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The layoffs are the latest sign that cuts are accelerating across Wall Street as dealmaking dries up. Goldman Sachs had 49,100 employees at the end of the third quarter after adding significant numbers of staff during the pandemic. The bank is weighing a sharp cut to the annual bonus pool this year, a separate source familiar with the matter said. Goldman Sachs declined to comment. The investment bank had first warned in July that it might slow hiring and cut expenses.

The UK government has promised to overhaul the youth gender care system, after it was deemed inadequate by England’s regulator of health and social care. They described a deeply flawed system that is now hobbled by a toxic political climate around gender care. The letter said a decision would be made at some point from early 2022 on whether the child “is likely to meet the access criteria” for gender care. The family has received no NHS gender care or mental health support since the referral, she said. These recommended supporting “identity exploration” and mental health treatment as the first steps to ensure that any psychological issues are addressed.

☆ Content creator Josh Harmon has 4 million TikTok followers and 2 million YouTube subscribers. Here's how he's preparing for the impending recession.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He told Insider that some of his fellow content creators have had brand deals axed mid-production. Now he's self-employed, "the highs are higher and the lows are lower," Harman told Insider. Harmon told Insider: "If the content stays good, the fans stay engaged." Harmon told Insider he always replies promptly and politely to professional partners — and he aims to complete all commercial work ahead of schedule. Harmon told Insider creators need to be "clear with companies" about their budgets — and they shouldn't let themselves feel pressured to accept anything less.

☆ Wall Street says a recession is coming. One investment pro names her favorite stocks to tough it out
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Zavier Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Tengler, who's been a proponent of dividend growth strategies for more than three decades, named four stocks she owns. Her firm uses what's known as a relative dividend yield strategy to judge the value of a stock. A high relative dividend yield is a buy signal if the dividend level is expected to be sustained and increased over time. Goldman also fits into one of Tengler's top investment themes: old economy stocks that are embracing digital transformation. Two asset managers face off Another old economy stock that Tengler likes is California-based self-storage firm Public Storage .

☆ Belgium knocked out of World Cup after goalless draw with Croatia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Belgium was knocked out of the 2022 World Cup on Thursday after a goalless draw with Croatia left it third in Group F.In what was a frustrating evening for the Red Devils, both Romelu Lukaku and Yannick Carrasco spurned good opportunities to score the goal which would have sent Belgium through. For Belgium, it is another disappointing end to an international tournament, but manager Roberto Martínez said afterward that Belgium can go home with its “heads held high.”“It’s not easy to win games in the World Cup. We’re out, but we can leave with our heads held high.”Belgium's Timothy Castagne looks dejected after being eliminated from the World Cup. After the break and following the introduction of Inter Milan striker Lukaku, Belgium increased the tempo as it pressed for a vital goal – Lukaku heading straight into the arms of Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livaković. In the previous World Cup, we won three games in the group stage, we wanted to go all the way.”

☆ Belgium goalless with Croatia at halftime
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Nick Said | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - Group F - Croatia v Belgium - Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan, Qatar - December 1, 2022 General view as the Group F statistics are displayed during half time REUTERS/Albert GeaAL RAYYAN, Qatar, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Belgium went into the break locked at 0-0 with Croatia in their decisive Group F clash at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium on Thursday. Morocco lead Canada 2-1 at halftime in the other match in the pool and as it stands the African side and Croatia are heading into the last 16. Belgium made four changes to their side, dropping skipper Eden Hazard and playing with Dries Mertens as a ‘false nine’, a change in tactics from manager Roberto Martinez. Mertens had a good opportunity when he was set up by Kevin De Bruyne, but shot well over the crossbar. Reporting by Nick Said; Editing by Ken FerrisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Crypto crash leaves media companies with budget holes as advertising dries up
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

In Alphabet 's third-quarter earnings call last month, the company blamed a slowdown in revenue growth in part on reduced ad spending by cypto companies and other financial firms. A 30-second spot during the NFL's grand finale in February cost an average of $6.5 million, and crypto was a huge theme. Crypto.com's online ad spending plummeted from about $16.2 million in the first quarter to $1.6 million in the third, SensorTower said. The crypto market has suffered downturns in the past, only to bounce back and attract even greater sums of cash and new entrants. WATCH: FTX's bankruptcy puts increased pressure on the ad market

☆ This 31-year old investor nearly quadrupled his multifamily housing empire from California to Texas in just 3 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sean Kia is one of Insider's Rising Stars of Real Estate for 2022. He applies the Ford production model to real estate. Just three years ago, Tides owned $2 billion in the apartment properties. He's been checking those boxes since he got a start in Phoenix, which became home to some of the company's bread-and-butter investments. The typical renter had been paying only 20% of their income on rent, which represented "really good affordability," Kia said.

☆ Morocco stun Belgium to claim long-awaited World Cup win
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Julien Pretot | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

DOHA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Substitutes Abdelhamid Sabiri and Zakaria Aboukhlal earned Morocco their first World Cup victory in 24 years as they upset a hugely disappointing Belgium side 2-0 in World Cup Group F on Sunday. It was Morocco's first win at a World Cup since they beat Scotland in 1998. That’s what happens at the World Cup," said Belgium coach Roberto Martinez. Croatia, who have a point from their draw with Morocco, play Canada in the other Group F game later on Sunday. As Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne struggled to find his range and Eden Hazard remained largely ineffective, Morocco looked safe.

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☆ Group's E and F get underway with Belgium, Germany and Spain in action
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Germany will face a Japan team full of names familiar to fans around the world. For Costa Rica, it is a last hurrah for some of the country’s legendary players. So, with one final shot at glory, Belgium begin against a Canada side making its second appearance at a World Cup. Canada ended its 36-year drought to play in a World Cup when it qualified earlier this year. ETSpain vs. Costa Rica: 11 a.m.

☆ NHL roundup: Surging Jets tie it late, sink Kraken in OT
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

With Winnipeg goalie David Rittich pulled for the extra skater, Blake Wheeler scored his 300th career NHL goal on the power play to tie the score with 5.2 seconds left. Jordan Eberle and Brandon Tanev scored for Seattle, which is 5-1-1 in its past seven games. The Kraken took a 2-1 lead on Tanev's goal at 7:02 of the third. Bruins 5, Canucks 2Five different players scored goals and defenseman Hampus Lindholm assisted on three as Boston downed visiting Vancouver for its fourth straight win. Travis Konecny scored the lone goal for the Flyers, who went 0-for-6 on the power play en route to losing their third straight game.

☆ Middle East's Fertile Crescent dries up as rains fail
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Alaa Al-Marjani | Orhan Qereman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

As world leaders meet in Egypt for a climate summit to address issues including water and food security, Elwan’s plight highlights a crisis facing Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries that could fuel more turmoil in the region as communities fight over dwindling water resources. Reuters spoke to more than two dozen people in five provinces across Iraq who all said that a prolonged drought, which has only worsened in recent years, was crippling livelihoods. Farmers in neighbouring Syria and Turkey are also struggling with lower rainfall. In Iraq, officials and water experts said rains had come later and ended sooner in each of the last three years. “Desertification now threatens almost 40% of the area of our country - a country that was once one of the most fertile and productive in the region,” Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid told the climate summit in Egypt last week.

☆ As Pandemic Aid Dries Up, Businesses Chase Covid Tax Credit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Ruth Simon | Richard Rubin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A temporary tax break for small businesses has spawned a cottage industry of advisory firms tapping into federal pandemic aid, raising alarms at the Internal Revenue Service that some claims are going beyond what the law allows. The Paycheck Protection Program and other federal aid programs long ago shut their doors. But small businesses and nonprofits battered by Covid-19 can still use a lesser-known lifeline, the employee-retention tax credit, or ERC. Businesses can claim up to $26,000 per employee in refunds by amending payroll tax returns from 2020 and 2021.

Farmers in both are fighting a losing battle to save the soil that produces our food. By contrast, there's not enough water in the vast Yangtze basin, which produces a third of China's crops. Soil erosion could lead to a 10% loss in global crop production by 2050, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Similarly, other measures such as digging thousands of new wells and encouraging farmers to switch crops to boost yields have limited impact. Options include not tilling soil to reduce erosion, and planting off-season cover crops to prevent erosion and nutrient loss.

☆ Lukaku, Hazard included in Belgium squad for World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has included injured striker Romelu Lukaku and playmaker Eden Hazard in his 26-man squad for the World Cup in Qatar, saying he will give the former "every second" to regain his fitness for the tournament. "He (Lukaku) is not completely fit medically, that is clear, but the last three days has been very positive. Or Vincent Kompany's in 2018 (ahead of the World Cup). However, he is a talismanic figure for Belgium and Martinez has set aside concerns with his match fitness and form. "I am looking for Eden to come as captain of the squad and show what an incredible player we have.

☆ Every World Cup 2022 squad announced: USMNT, Germany, Belgium and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —‘Tis the season for wall charts and fans gathering around to pick their starting teams for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. “It’s always difficult when a guy helps you get to the World Cup, he scores three goals in World Cup qualifying and isn’t going to be a part of the program. Again, it’s more about who we did add that we felt good about.”All but one of the 26 will be making their World Cup debut at this year’s tournament and, according to the USMNT, it will be the youngest team to qualify for the World Cup. Octavio Passos/Getty Images Europe/Getty ImagesGhanaManager: Otto AddoThe final squad has not been announced yet. READ: Meet Otto Addo, the coach responsible for guiding some of Europe’s brightest young talents (2021)—–PortugalManager: Fernando SantosThe final squad has not been announced yet.

☆ The Fed's jumbo-sized rate hikes will uncover more 'skeletons in the closet' for crypto after FTX's rescue, economist says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rising interest rates will cause further casualties in the crypto space, according to the Peterson Institute's Martin Chorzempa. FTX announced Tuesday it agreed to be taken over by rival exchange Binance, shocking investors. "We can expect a lot more problems to come," Chorzempa told CNBC. "We can expect a lot more problems to come," Chorzempa told CNBC on Wednesday. "When rates come up, a lot of skeletons that have been waiting in the closet in highly-speculative, highly-levered markets tend to come out."

☆ Futures signal more losses on Fed's rate hike view
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

However, rate futures markets implied the odds of peak Fed funds rate climbing to 5% or higher next year compared with a prior estimate of 4.50%-4.75% rise. Focus will shift to Friday's jobs data, expected to show nonfarm payrolls increased by 200,000 in October. ET, Dow e-minis were down 39 points, or 0.12%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 6.5 points, or 0.17%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 28.5 points, or 0.26%. Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) tumbled 6.9% after the chipmaker's forecast for holiday-quarter revenue fell about $2 billion short of Street estimates. Roku Inc (ROKU.O) slumped 18.8% after the streaming platform forecast holiday-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates as ad spending dries up.

☆ Dead bodies are randomly mummifying in Portugal, baffling scientists and sparking a crisis in its graveyards
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Graveyards in Portugal are running out of space, partly because bodies aren't decaying as expected. Under local laws implemented to save space, bodies need to be routinely exhumed so that skeletal remains can be laid to rest in smaller containers. Scientists like Krap use facilities that have access to donated bodies to study decomposition, so-called body farms. A lasting effect on culture, and grief"This has a social impact, which is quite a big deal for my own country," Silva Bessa said. But, as Silva Bessa noted, for the Portuguese "it's quite the tradition to bury the bodies not to cremate them."

☆ Streaming platform Roku's shares slump on dour holiday-quarter forecast
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Shares of Roku Inc (ROKU.O) fell more than 20% in extended trading on Wednesday after the streaming platform forecast holiday-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates as ad spending dries up. Top players including Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Snap Inc (SNAP.N) have warned of shrinking ad spending, which led to a broad tech sell-off in recent weeks. Roku added 2.3 million "active accounts" in the third quarter, compared with 1.3 million net additions last year. "Roku’s growth will be disrupted by a recessionary environment because advertising budgets on the whole will see cuts, while at the same time TV ad budgets continue to see migration to digital," Third Bridge analyst Jamie Lumle said. "We will continue to slow headcount and operating expense growth in response to the macro environment," Wood added.

☆ Khvicha Kvaratskhelia: Napoli’s Georgian sensation billed ‘Kvaradona’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But none have been more famous – or loved by Napoli fans – than Diego Maradona. “I have a video of Napoli fans chanting the names of the players before the game against Liverpool. “But Kvaratskhelia is shrugging defenders off the ball.”According to Badalashvili, the reciprocated love Kvaratskhelia and the Napoli fans have for one another is what jumps out to him most. His surname is already ‘Kvaradona.’ Napoli fans gave him the nickname ‘Kvaradona.’ And when I spoke with Napoli fans, they said when they see Kvara, they see Maradona.”Kvaratskhelia attempts a shot against Rangers in the Champions League. In the cities in Georgia, you will see very many people in shirts of Kvara: either Napoli shirts or Georgian national team.

☆ Women in venture capital are writing the rules of maternity leave and bending the male-dominated culture to their will
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Melia Russell | Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

And with more women entering the male-dominated venture industry, firms are being forced to craft maternity leave policies on the fly to accommodate new mothers. Forty years ago, the clubby male world of venture capital admitted so few women that maternity leave as a benefit was effectively nonexistent. "There is no playbook about how to take maternity leave or raise a family while also accelerating your career as an investor." Lux CapitalLike in many male-dominated industries, maternity leave as a benefit for investors doesn't come up in conversation until someone needs it. Though, the best policies, investors said, give women choices about how they operate on leave, rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all leave.

☆ Germany's Solar Valley could shine again as Europe strives to close energy gap
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Riham Alkousaa | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

It is also reacting to a new U.S. law that has raised concern the remains of Germany's formerly-dominant solar industry could relocate to the United States. China's production is also around 10%-20% cheaper that in Europe, separate data from European Solar Manufacturing Council ESMC shows. Dries Acke, the Policy Director at industry body SolarPower Europe, said the body had written to the European Commission urging action. Berlin-based residential solar energy supplier Zolar said orders have risen by 500% year-on-year since the Ukraine war began in February, but clients might have to wait for six-to-nine months to get a solar system installed. "The signs for the solar industry in Germany are much, much better now," he said.

☆ Premarket stocks: The Fed is killing the housing market
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

This ultra-resilient economy stands in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive attempts to quell inflation by slowing growth through aggressive interest rates. Those higher rates, fueled by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented campaign of hiking interest rates to tame soaring inflation, are beginning to choke the housing market. “The surge in mortgage rates and extremely high housing prices has led to massive pullback in first time home purchasing and has pushed investors to the side. But housing is a bellwether for the rest of the economy, and these contractions will inevitably weigh on broader US growth. Alphabet (GOOG) and Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META) fell short of earnings expectations last quarter, citing a slowing digital ad market.

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