The Boss just can’t quit Broadway. Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway this summer for a limited run of his one-man show “Springsteen on Broadway.” Performances at the St. James Theatre begin June 26 with an end date set — at least for now — for Sept. 4. “I loved doing ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ and […]
United Wholesale Mortgage has been aggressively price-cutting loans to put pressure on competitors for months now. It appears they’ve just thrown gas on the fire in the hopes of boosting their second quarter numbers, while hitting their rivals ahead of earnings call season. UWM said on Monday that they’ll price-match any conventional loan on primary […]
Summary List Placement If you’re in the market for a used car, be prepared for some sticker shock. Prices are projected to have skyrocketed again in May, and that boom is probably going to be a primary driver of increased inflation. A note by a group of UBS researchers, led by Alan Detmeister, forecast a […]
Summary List Placement The labor markets in some states are recovering much more quickly than in others – and local lockdowns, the size of their tourism industries, and the number of people who moved there during the pandemic could be the reason why, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. As a result, […]
Summary List Placement The hospitality industry is struggling to fill roles amid the labor shortage hitting industries from education and healthcare and ride-hailing apps – but some types of restaurant are having a harder time finding workers than others. Fast-casual restaurants, coffee shops, and snack bars have nearly as many employees as they did before […]
Serena Williams turns 40 in September. Roger Federer hits that milestone the month before. No one knows how many more French Open appearances each will make, and this year’s tournament ended for both on Sunday. Williams fell way behind and could not put together a comeback against a much younger and less-experienced opponent in the […]
As New York COVID restrictions ease, Broadway is hoping to draw people back to the theater while the movie industry is expanding its footprint in the Big Apple. Evgeny Maslov has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera: Michael Eckels, VOA & News agencies details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted […]
The second baby for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is officially here: Meghan gave birth to a healthy girl on Friday. A spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan said Sunday the couple welcomed their child Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Their daughter weighed in at 7 lbs, 11 oz. Her first name, Lilibet, is a […]
Summary List Placement Forty-five million Americans have a $1.7 trillion student debt burden in the country. And many of them, alongside Democrats and advocates, want President Joe Biden to forgive $50,000 of their debt. He hasn’t done that yet, but the president has taken steps to lessen the burden and provide relief during the pandemic. […]
Choub Kanha, started her circus career at age 9, recently performed for more than 24 continuous hours in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the single longest circus performance. The goal — drawing post-pandemic tourists to a long-running attraction in Siem Reap, which is best known for the nearby Bou Ratha, circus […]
Favorite Essential Quality passed early leader Hot Rod Charlie to cross the finish line first Saturday in the Belmont Stakes. Essential Quality passed Hot Rod Charlie around the final turn and held on to win the 1½-mile race. Hot Rod Charlie was second, Preakness winner Rombauer third and Known Agenda fourth. The race was run […]
Summary List Placement The number of police interventions in New York City public schools has risen with Black students and students with severe disabilities disproportionally removed from classrooms, a new report has uncovered. The report, which was published this week by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), an education nonprofit organization, analyzed 12,000 incidents […]
Summary List Placement Finance ministers for some of the world’s wealthiest nations have reached a “historic agreement” to tackle tax abuses by internet giants and to introduce a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent. “I am delighted to announce that today after years of discussion G7 finance ministers have reached a historic agreement […]
Summary List Placement Half of all states in America are ending their participation in federal unemployment benefits early, leaving millions of workers with greatly reduced benefits — or no benefits at all. Twenty-three of these states are still below pre-pandemic employment, while 15 have lower than average vaccination rates. That means that workers being pushed […]
Summary List Placement 2020 was the year urbanites took flight. But many of them didn’t go very far. The pandemic’s great migration boom mostly consisted of urban dwellers leaving big cities for its directly outlying suburbs, according to a recent Jefferies note that analyzed the latest USPS data. “Large central metro” areas like New York […]
Summary List Placement Two staff members have been placed on administrative leave after a fifth-grade student at a New Jersey elementary school gave a first-person speech as Adolf Hitler to his class, according to a statement by Tenafly Public Schools Superintendent Shauna C. DeMarco. The student at Maugham Elementary School dressed as the Nazi dictator […]
Summary List Placement Every summer, universities around the country release their recommended summer books and reading lists for incoming students. This year, schools like Columbia, Duke, UC Berkeley, NYU, Northwestern, and more shared their 2021 reading lists online. They included books like “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” “The Vanishing Half,” “The Alchemist,” “The […]
Bill Dallas, president of Finance of America Mortgage, will speak at engage.marketing on the panel: Winning in a red-hot purchase market. Dallas is a mortgage industry veteran, building two mortgage companies from the ground up: First Franklin and Ownit Mortgage Solutions, starting in 1981. In 2009, Dallas purchased Skyline Home Loans with Upfront Ventures and […]
Summary List Placement June is here, and it brings much to celebrate along with it: the start of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, summer, and lots of exciting new book releases. Amazon’s monthly booklist spans everything from entertaining novels to poignant, introspective memoirs. This month’s top pick, “Malibu Rising,” seems to be a quintessential summer read […]
Summary List Placement Industries hit hard by the pandemic, including accommodation, museums, and performing arts, are still far below pre-pandemic employment. Nick Bunker, economic research director at Indeed, told Insider that some of the industries that have the highest percent declines from February 2020 employment to May 2021, are “industries that just aren’t going to […]
Summary List Placement During the pandemic, I embraced quarantine life by pursuing more of my hobbies. There was just one problem: All of them led to a much busier schedule. From writing to taking a dance class to volunteering, I felt like I was always hustling from one thing to the next. As my […]
Summary List Placement Throughout the pandemic, the story of unemployment has been a roller coaster, taking myriad twists and turns. March’s jobs report brought new highs, and April brought disappointing lows. May’s jobs report falls somewhere in between, coming in below expectations but still showing acceleration as unemployment dipped. One group, however, has been disproportionately […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) released the COVID-19 Handbook Volume 3: Strategies for Safe Operation and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff to provide additional strategies for higher education institutions (IHEs) and communities as they work to reopen for in-person instruction safely and equitably. details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received […]
Summary List Placement Republicans in 25 states are cutting enhanced unemployment benefits early under the argument that the additional measures discourage people from re-entering the workforce. But the May jobs report released on Friday, which saw 559,000 payrolls added — a sharp increase from April — and a bigger-than-expected drop in the unemployment rate, suggests […]
A Russian tennis player suspected of match-fixing last year has been arrested during this year’s French Open, her lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday. The player, 765th-ranked Yana Sizikova of Russia, denied the allegations, according to her lawyer, Frederic Belot. He told The Associated Press that Sizikova wants to file a complaint for defamation. […]
Summary List Placement A megadrought in California is threatening to push food prices even higher. The state is already facing its worst water shortage in four years and the its driest season has only just begun, according to data from the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). As water levels continue to fall, farmers and […]
Summary List Placement As President Joe Biden continues his effort to reach a bipartisan agreement on his infrastructure proposal, House Democrats have proposed additional funding for rebuilding the country’s physical infrastructure — an area Republicans have argued doesn’t have enough focus. On Friday, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio, Chair […]
Summary List Placement Ranked by US News as the 20th top university in the world in 2021, Imperial College London is known for its excellence in the medical, engineering, and business fields. But you don’t have to move abroad or pay tuition to access some of Imperial’s classes. Like many top universities, including Harvard, […]
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Summary List Placement More US jobs were added in May than in April, and most of the gains once again fell in the leisure and hospitality industry. The US added 559,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in May, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, below economists’ median estimate of 674,000, per Insider’s […]
Paramount Pictures on Thursday temporarily shut down production on the British set of Tom Cruise’s seventh “Mission: Impossible” film after someone tested positive for coronavirus. “We have temporarily halted production on ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ until June 14th, due to positive coronavirus test results during routine testing,” a Paramount spokesperson said in a statement. “We […]
Summary List Placement After a hugely disappointing April report, the US labor market’s recovery seems to be back on track, albeit not quite to the degree economists hoped. The US economy added 559,000 nonfarm payrolls in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday morning. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg held a median estimate of a […]
Ray Cordeiro considers himself the luckiest radio DJ in the world. In a storied career spanning over 70 years in Hong Kong, Cordeiro has interviewed superstars including the Beatles and Elton John, and even received an MBE — an order of the British empire for outstanding achievement or service to the community — from […]
Summary List Placement Local pharmacies in the US are scrambling to find workers amid the labor shortage hitting industries, according to the country’s largest organization of independent pharmacy owners. Four in five pharmacies are struggling to recruit enough workers to deliver prescriptions, handle patients, and run the cash register, according to a report by the […]
Summary List Placement Ally Bank, the largest digital bank in the US, announced Wednesday that it would eliminate overdraft fees on all accounts. All Ally customers are eligible and “there are no requirements or restrictions,” the firm said in a press release. “This is a significant advancement for consumers as we live out our mission […]
Turkey has had the highest number of COVID infections in Europe and has been in and out of lockdown for more than a year. Among those hardest hit have been the country’s musicians, who have received little or no government support. Dorian Jones reports from Turkey’s entertainment capital, Istanbul. Video editor: Marcus Harton details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web […]
Today, the Department of Education announced more details on the COVID-19 College Challenge, where colleges and universities take a pledge and commit to taking action to get their college communities vaccinated. The COVID-19 College Challenge is part of the Biden Administration’s month of action in June encouraging Americans to get vaccinated and aims to accelerate […]
Summary List Placement The White House downplayed the prospect of a fourth stimulus payment on Thursday, saying that President Joe Biden has already unveiled what he believes is his best possible economic recovery plan. “He’s happy to hear from a range of ideas on what would be most effective and what’s most important to the […]
A few years ago, a star athlete dropping out of a major tennis tournament over mental health issues might have been seen as a sign of weakness. Today, at least for Naomi Osaka’s corporate sponsors, it is being hailed as refreshingly honest. That would explain why so many of them have stuck by Osaka after […]
Summary List Placement It’s not just the US housing market that’s on an absolute tear. Home prices around the world are surging as strong demand squares off against strained supply. The average home price across 56 countries and territories rose 7.3% in the year to March 2021, according to the Knight Frank Global House Price […]
Independent mortgage banks (IMB) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks saw an average net profit of $3,361 on each loan they originated in the first quarter of 2021, down from a reported gain of $3,738 per loan in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The average pre-tax […]
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s work on display during a press preview of his new exhibition ‘Rapture’ in Lisbon, June 3, 2021. “Rapture” is being presented in a long, low, riverside building that housed Portugal’s national rope factory starting in the 18th century and now hosts temporary art exhibitions. Ai’s show runs until Nov. 28. […]
Summary List Placement As Democrats in Congress continue to pressure President Joe Biden to cancel $50,000 in student debt per borrower, cities are also joining in on the fight to relieve 43 million borrowers of a $1.7 trillion student debt burden. Washington, DC can now be added to the list. On Wednesday, the DC Council […]
Fickle mortgage rates rose once again last week, this time four basis points to an average of 2.99%, according to Thursday data from Freddie Mac‘s PMMS. However, despite fluctuating sub-3% mortgage rates, borrowers are still competing in a supply strained and overheated market. “Home prices continue to accelerate while inventory remains low and new home construction cannot […]
Summary List Placement Until recently, enthusiasm was building in the economic recovery. But a series of dark clouds have come together all at once to darken the outlook for the US economy and they all point to one thing: inflation. The most hotly debated topic is the question of the labor market. The weak April […]