Markets Right Now: Stocks Start Lower A Day After Sharp Loss

It’s mainly about their relationships with their managers. As a career strategist, I‘ve worked with ambitious and responsible performers for the past 15 years. I meet them when they’re starting to ponder what’s next. They’re typically contemplating whether to stay or leave their current employment. And while everyone’s circumstances are unique, I’ve noticed that there are some commonalities that make the most talented employees leave again and again.

In our era of fast-swipe dating apps and AI, romance scams are growing more sophisticated—and more commonplace. When 27-year-old Chad Teixeira got to know his romance scammer, he thought he had met the man of his dreams. “Everything seemed perfect,” he says. “It was almost too good to be true.”

In a post-‘Barbie’ world, Hollywood is on a kick to create something fresh from the nostalgically familiar. Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture.

A strong Q1 earnings performance caps off the streamer’s astonishing rebound in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Here’s how Netflix pulled it off. What a difference two years can make. In April 2022, after a heady era of staggering spending and explosive growth, Netflix posted its first subscriber loss in 10 years.

Israel’s long-term credit rating is being downgraded by S&P, which cited the risk of military escalation with Iran. It is the second major U. S. credit ratings agency to do so. There was an apparent drone attack at a major air base and a nuclear site near the central city of Isfahan early Friday, which is suspected of being part of an Israeli retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country days ago. S&P’s downgrade was issued shortly before the strike in Iran, and almost three months after Moody’s, another major U.

Earlier this month, Xcel Energy cut electricity to about 55,000 customers along the Front Range to reduce wildfire risks from wind gusts that topped 100 mph. Another 95,000 of its customers lost power because of downed power lines from those intense winds. Those outages, planned or forced, removed power to about 40 cellular towers that Verizon Wireless relies on.