Fridge, meet tablet. Samsung on Sunday unveiled via its Korean website a new refrigerator that will connect to the Internet. It looks like someone welded a gargantuan iPad onto the front door, and it reportedly will let people access a list of their food from any smartphone, get alerts when items are expiring, listen to […]
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is taking on the added role of chairman at the nation’s largest automaker. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca
Upon first hearing this you absorbed the advice as wise and common sense. New evidence from scientific studies suggests that this supposedly sage advice handed down by executives, leaders, and HR departments across the globe is simply misguided and wrong. The link between stress and mental health is undeniable. The more stress someone experiences, the […]
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Every year at around this time, for the past 6 years, I have sat down in a quiet place to plan out my upcoming year. I’m not a believer in vague resolutions, but rather, I make a list of goals for the year. I start by listing out all of the things I might want […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: investing in broad, low-cost index funds is the best way to save for retirement. In the wake of the tech bubble — which saw a lot of average-people-turned-stock-traders lose everything — and the housing bubble — which saw average-people-turned-real-estate-professionals lose everything — a vocal part of the financial […]
Chipotle’s sales are sliding following an E. coli outbreak tied to its restaurants across nine states. The company is expecting same-store sales to decline by 8% to 11% for the fourth quarter, and analysts say the slide could continue for at least another year. To judge how long the damage might last, analysts for Oppenheimer […]
The new year got off to a rough start for many stocks in the Spotlight screen, but several held up well Monday despite the market’s sharp sell-off. Nearly half the stocks in the screen sliced through their 50-day moving averages. Hawaiian (HA) was the biggest decliner, dropping 7%. But TAL Education (XRS), Acuity Brands (AYI) […]
Cooking with energy from the sun — a technique featured last month in an episode of “Top Chef” — could soon put a major dent in what some experts call the world’s greatest environmental health issue. Every day, nearly half the people in the world prepare their meals over burning wood, charcoal or animal dung. […]
It’s been a turbulent start to 2016 for world financial markets with big drops in the value of shares across the world Monday. The sell-off began in China – where concerns are growing over the quickening pace of the slowdown, as Henry Ridgwell reports. read more >>> Source : VOANews.Com
(Adds strategist comment, details; updates prices to close) * Canadian dollar ends at C$1.3941, or 71.73 U.S. cents * Bond prices marginally higher across the maturity curve By Alastair Sharp… read more >>> Source : Reuters
Brenda Shaffer, Global Energy Center, and Kent Moors, Energy Capital Research, discusses what will happen to oil if the tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran continue to escalate. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
“The Big Short” is a fierce, funny, wildly entertaining and downright infuriating movie that tells the story of the 2008 subprime meltdown from the perspective of four men who saw it coming. They bought “short” (betting against Wall Street) and made fortunes. It is based on the book by Michael Lewis, who also wrote the […]
The people at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London really want you to procrastinate — in the name of 18th-century fashion. Their new design-a-wig game lets you create ridiculous Marie Antoinette-esque sky-high hairstyles, complete with powder, gems and other absurd ornaments that are just begging to make a modern-day comeback. The game is as […]
It was not a good start to 2016 for the stock market. Stocks in the US followed markets in Asia and Europe lower to start the year deep in the red as the S&P 500 had its worst opening day since 2000 and the Dow had its worst first day of trading since 1932 (which, […]
HONG KONG/BEIJING, Jan 5 (Reuters) – China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, foreign officials and analysts said. read more >>> Source : Reuters
(Reuters) – Microchip Technology Inc is planning to submit a binding offer for Atmel Corp by early next week, according to people familiar with the matter, challenging Atmel’s planned merger with Dialog Semiconductor Plc . read more >>> Source : Reuters
Facebook (FB),NetEase (NTES) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) fell sharply Monday, but LinkedIn (LNKD) showed relative strength among Sector Leaders as it emerged from a market sell-off in decent shape. LinkedIn pared losses, finding support just above its 200-day moving average. But its decline Monday did alter the chart. The stock has dropped as much as […]
MEXICO CITY, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Mexican Central Bank chief Agustin Carstens on Monday said that the U.S. Federal Reserve will likely raise rates at a “very gradual” pace this year and that Mexico… read more >>> Source : Reuters
THE owner of the Priory, Britain’s best-known rehab clinic, is being bought by the US Acadia Healthcare in a deal worth nearly £1.3billion. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Monday filed a civil lawsuit against Volkswagen AG for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act by installing illegal devices to impair emission control systems in nearly 600,000 vehicles. read more >>> Source : Reuters
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Wages are expected to rise at the fastest rate in 3 years (Korn Ferry) Global people and organizational advisory firm Korn Ferry says wages are expected to increase by 2.5% globally in 2016, making for the […]
CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports three allies of Saudi Arabia have joined diplomatic action against Iran. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
The investment arm of the Canada Pension Plan has made its entry into the U.S. student housing market through a new joint venture. read more >>> Source : CBC.Ca
When I first started blogging, I had no clue that blogging was hard work. I, like most people started blogging to keep a journal of my conversations and experiences with my kids. As I began to enjoy what I was writing and saw that my audience liked it too, I realized that blogging requires not […]
On Sunday, Saudi officials announced that the Kingdom will sever all diplomatic ties with Iran, and told all Iranian diplomats to leave within 48 hours. The decision came after Iranian protesters attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran, ransacking and setting fire to the building in retaliation for Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric […]
Five people are facing charges after a break-in at a Health Canada-authorized medical marijuana producer in central Ontario. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca
* General Motors to invest $500 mln in ride-sharing service Lyft read more >>> Source : Reuters
EPA and Justice Department sue Volkswagen seeking at least $16 billion in fines for violating Clean Air Act with cheating diesel cars. read more >>> Source : CNN Money
You may have your work routine down to a science, from where you prefer to grab some quiet space to the exact time you take a lunch break. But there’s one very important element you may be forgetting when it comes to success in the office: Your desk. How you use your workspace — from […]
Dropbox has been granted a patent on a new peer-to-peer file-sharing technology that suggests it may be planning an alternative to its existing cloud-based service. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
2015 is nearing a close, and the notion of planning is all around us. Plan your resolutions, plan your budgets, plan your projects. I came across a poem earlier this year that made me think about planning in general. It also brings in the topics of leadership, organizational structure, communication and a stark reality in […]
The web is inundated with new content on an hourly basis. So much so that it can be hard for any content to stand out. Readers have an attention span shorter than a goldfish! With trending hashtags, sponsored posts and the brevity of posting with fewer than 140 characters, hot trending topics often play a […]
The US justice department is suing Volkswagen over the emissions scandal that saw the German car giant fit software to millions of cars to cheat emissions tests. read more >>> Source : BBC
* Yen hits 11-week peak vs dollar, highest vs euro since April read more >>> Source : Reuters
Airbnb’s US bookings are disproportionately concentrated in the top metropolitan markets, according to a report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch earlier this month. While the top 10 markets account for only 13% of bookings at traditional hotels, those markets make up 40% of equivalent bookings for Airbnb. read more >>> Source : HotelNewsresource.Com
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – The year’s top-performing U.S.-listed global equities fund as rated by Morningstar sees Asian and emerging market stocks as undervalued and primed to outperform in 2016. Kristian Heugh, whose $641 million Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity fund gained 20 percent for the year through Dec. 29, said his fund has […]
Gun maker stocks are surging in a slumping market, as new federal data indicates a sales jump after 2015 ended with more mass shootings and growing political pressure to tighten regulation. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca
NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The year’s top-performing U.S.-listed global equities fund as rated by Morningstar sees Asian and emerging market stocks as undervalued and primed to outperform in 2016. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Legendary boxer Mike Tyson now has a Bitcoin-trading app named after him. read more >>> Source : CNN Money
LIMA, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Peru’s central bank sold $80 million in the local spot market on Monday and the sol slipped 0.23 percent to finish trading at 3.422/3.423 per dollar, the lowest in nearly ten… read more >>> Source : Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shares of Apple Inc fell to their lowest since August on Monday following recent worries about potentially soft iPhone sales but fared better than a 2 percent drop in major indexes. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Stocks held near session lows in early afternoon trading Monday, hurt by a rout in China stocks overnight and increased tension in the Middle East. The Nasdaq slumped 2.5%, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 2.2% and the S&P 500 fell 2.1%. Volume on the NYSE and Nasdaq was tracking sharply higher than Thursday’s levels […]
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency are suing German carmaker Volkswagen for falsifying the emissions on 600,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. read more >>> Source : CBC.Ca
Cyber-thieves have used the Javascript programming language to create ransomware that is cheap and easy to use. read more >>> Source : BBC