Young UK managers want pay raise, free lunch to return to office: Survey

Young UK managers want pay raise, free lunch to return to office: Survey

People walk along Waterloo Bridge past the City of London skyline, the capital’s financial district, on a sunny and mild day. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Younger U.K. managers are looking for a pay raise and free lunches to entice them back to the office full-time, a new survey has found. Half of … Read more

GOP presidential candidates all oppose student loan relief

GOP presidential candidates all oppose student loan relief

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy pose together onstage at the third Republican candidates’ U.S. presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, U.S., November 8, 2023.  Mike Segar … Read more

U.S. deficit tops half a trillion dollars in first quarter of fiscal year

U.S. deficit tops half a trillion dollars in first quarter of fiscal year

The U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 15, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. government ran up another half a trillion dollars in red ink in the first quarter of its fiscal year, the Treasury Department reported Thursday. For the period from October 2023 through December 2023, the budget … Read more

Red Sea crisis could jeopardize inflation fight as shipping costs spike globally

Red Sea crisis could jeopardize inflation fight as shipping costs spike globally

A ship transits the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on January 10, 2024 in Ismailia, Egypt.  Sayed Hassan | Getty Images U.S. shipping costs are spiking as attacks in the Red Sea disrupt global trade, raising fears that inflation might pick up again if the disruption persists. The diversion of container ships from the … Read more

Kevin Malligan’s life support to be switched off after Sydney father critically hurt in Bali scooter crash

Kevin Malligan’s life support to be switched off after Sydney father critically hurt in Bali scooter crash

A Sydney father critically injured in a scooter crash in Bali has been declared clinically brain dead by doctors, with his heavily pregnant wife now left to decide when the 24-year-old’s life support will be switched off. Kevin Malligan suffered a brain bleed and fractures to his skull and neck when the moped he was … Read more

Ether price spikes on hope of ETH ETF — but will the SEC approve it?

Ether price spikes on hope of ETH ETF — but will the SEC approve it?

St. Moritz, SWITZERLAND — U.S. Securities and Exchange Chair Gary Gensler fired warning shots to the crypto industry, casting doubt over whether digital coin ether would follow next in the footsteps of bitcoin to receive approval for an exchange-traded fund. After the bitcoin ETF approval, prices for ether — the token linked with Ethereum — … Read more

FAA investigating if Boeing failed to ensure if aircraft were safe for operation

FAA investigating if Boeing failed to ensure if aircraft were safe for operation

A plastic sheet covers an area of the fuselage of the Alaska Airlines N704AL Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft outside a hangar at Portland International Airport on January 8, 2024 in Portland, Oregon.  Mathieu Lewis-rolland | Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it has informed Boeing it’s investigating whether the company failed … Read more

Hundreds of jobs cut across engineering and hardware

Hundreds of jobs cut across engineering and hardware

The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Jan. 30, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google cut several hundred jobs across the company late Wednesday night as it continues to push for efficiency and focus on its “biggest product priorities,” a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The layoffs will impact employees within Google’s hardware … Read more

What will it cost you to buy a bitcoin ETF? Here are the cheapest and most expensive funds

What will it cost you to buy a bitcoin ETF? Here are the cheapest and most expensive funds

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images The bitcoin exchange-traded funds launching Thursday after the SEC’s long-awaited approval come at a wide variety of price points, with signs that a fee war is already underway. The Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB) has the lowest expense ratio of all the new bitcoin funds, at 0.20%. Several other … Read more

Prices rose 0.3% higher than expected, annual rate at 3.4%

Prices rose 0.3% higher than expected, annual rate at 3.4%

Prices that consumers pay for a variety of goods and services rose more than expected in December, according to a Labor Department measure Thursday that shows inflation still holding a grip on the U.S. economy. The consumer price index increased 0.3% for the month, higher than the 0.2% estimate at a time when most economists … Read more