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Rebellion in Russia could trigger selloff in U.S. stocks and flight to safe assets, analysts say. Here’s what investors should know.
Watch what happens over the next 36 hours. That was the advice from one financial analyst as U.S. investors awoke on Saturday to news of an apparent armed rebellion against Moscow led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the powerful Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group. Others speculated that the crisis in Russia could drive U.S.…
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How hard has it been to cancel Amazon Prime? Start by navigating 4 pages, 6 clicks and 15 options.
Signing up for Amazon Prime is as easy as 1-2-3. Canceling it, not so much. For years, up until this past April, the online retail giant made customers trying to quit its signature service navigate an odyssey through a labyrinthine system called the “Iliad Flow” named after the epically long and complex masterwork by the…
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Q2 profits are set for their biggest drop since the pandemic, but then the worst may be over for the year
Wall Street is expecting a third straight quarter of falling profits and the worst decrease since the pandemic in 2020, when second quarter earnings are reported in July, but that may be the bottom for this year. Wall Street expects per-share profit for S&P 500 index companies to fall 6.5% for the second quarter, according…
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The magic number for retirement climbs as most Americans expect to work longer — except Gen Z
Americans think they’ll need $1.27 million to retire comfortably, but they plan to work longer to amass that nest egg. The new magic number for retirement is up slightly from last year, when U.S. adults said they believed they needed $1.25 million to retire comfortably, according to new findings from Northwestern Mutual. High-net-worth individuals –…
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Nearly 22 million households spend more than they can afford on rent, Harvard report says
The number of cost-burdened renters — or people who spend more than the recommended 30% of their income on housing each month — is at a record high as affordability declines nationwide, according to a report from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies published Wednesday. In 2021, the report said, there were a record 21.6 million…
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Kroger investors vote for report on racial and gender pay gaps
A majority of Kroger Co. investors on Thursday approved a shareholder resolution calling for the supermarket giant to produce a report on racial and gender pay equity for its hundreds of thousands of employees. In the proposal, the filers noted that women and people of color were underrepresented in leadership roles at Kroger KR, +0.15%.…
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Virgin Galactic stock tumbles, while CarMax and Conformis climb and other stocks on the move
Here are some of the biggest movers of the day ahead of Friday’s market open: Stock gainers: CarMax Inc. stock KMX, +10.07% is rallying 9.1% toward a nine-month high after the used car seller reported adjusted first-quarter profit of $1.16 a share, well above the FactSet consensus of 79 cents. Total sales dropped 17.4% to $7.69…
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Tech companies scaled back DEI teams last year amid ‘worrying’ backlash, report says
The tech industry saw a rollback in wage equity last year, while also shrinking its diversity, equity and inclusion teams, a new report shows. The recruiting platform Hired said this week that wage gaps widened in 2022 for women and men of all racial and ethnic groups except white and Asian women, though there was…