Ether rallies 6% in catchup trade as investors position for January

Ether rallies 6% in catchup trade as investors position for January

A representation of cryptocurrency Ethereum is placed on a PC motherboard in this illustration taken June 16, 2023. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The price of ether jumped on Wednesday as investors moved into the cryptocurrency ahead of key upside catalysts expected in January. Ether was last higher by 6%, according to Coin Metrics. Solana’s SOL … Read more

Does the tax on your year-end bonus check seem high? Here’s why

Does the tax on your year-end bonus check seem high? Here’s why

Jgi/tom Grill | Tetra Images | Getty Images Does your year-end bonus look smaller than expected? Tax withholding is a likely culprit, but Uncle Sam may pay some back when you file an annual tax return, experts said. Bonuses are treated as taxable income, like wages in a typical paycheck. However, unlike wages, the IRS … Read more

Barbie, Oppenheimer, Taylor Swift: 2023’s most important films

Barbie, Oppenheimer, Taylor Swift: 2023’s most important films

Movie posters for “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are pictured outside the Cinemark Somerdale 16 and XD in Somerdale, New Jersey, 2023. Hannah Beier | The Washington Post | Getty Images Call 2023 an explosive comeback at the box office. There were blonde bombshells, in “Barbie,” actual bombs, in “Oppenheimer,” and small-budget blockbusters — each of them … Read more

Apple Watch import ban temporarily stopped by U.S. appeals court

Apple Watch import ban temporarily stopped by U.S. appeals court

Apple smartwatches ads are displayed as customers take a look at smartwatch accessories at the Apple store in New York, U.S., December 26, 2023.  Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Apple will be able to sell the latest Apple Watches after an import ban was temporarily paused by an appeals court on Wednesday, in a major victory … Read more

Michigan court rejects appeal to disqualify Trump from 2024 ballot

Michigan court rejects appeal to disqualify Trump from 2024 ballot

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. December 19, 2023. Scott Morgan | Reuters The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. The Michigan court ruled against an appeal by liberal … Read more

Generative AI big year meant profit for Nvidia, experiments elsewhere

Generative AI big year meant profit for Nvidia, experiments elsewhere

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted that he was surprised by the popularity of ChatGPT, which was released as a research project a little more than a year ago. His … Read more

Boston recently narrowed the city’s gender pay gap. Here’s how

Boston recently narrowed the city’s gender pay gap. Here’s how

Tomasz Szulczewski | Moment | Getty Images Women continue to make great strides in the workforce, achieving increasing levels of education, and advancing into senior leadership positions. However, the gender pay gap — the difference between the earnings of men and women — has barely budged in recent years. In the U.S., women who work full … Read more

Bitcoin 2023 rally pumped up Marathon, Coinbase, MicroStrategy, GBTC

Bitcoin 2023 rally pumped up Marathon, Coinbase, MicroStrategy, GBTC

Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on April 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images For crypto bulls, the most lucrative bets in 2023 were in the stock market. While bitcoin rallied over 150% for the year, shares of Coinbase, MicroStrategy and … Read more

Houthi attacks, U.S. strikes spur concerns of wider Mideast conflict

Houthi attacks, U.S. strikes spur concerns of wider Mideast conflict

Houthi military helicopter flies over the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea in this photo released on Nov. 20, 2023. Houthi Military Media | Via Reuters Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched fresh attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea, while the U.S. carried out strikes against targets in Iraq, amid fears that the … Read more

Why cars lose their value so quickly

Why cars lose their value so quickly

It is often said that a car begins losing its value as soon as you drive it off the lot. The reasons why boil down to some Nobel Prize-winning insights about human behavior and some quirks of the automotive industry. Everyone in the automotive industry keeps a close eye on depreciation: owners and buyers concerned … Read more