eToro says crypto made up 73% of trading commissions in the last quarter, as retail customers dived in
Crypto assets drove 73% of eToro's total trading commissions in the second quarter, compared with 7% a year ago, as interest in digital assets rose and retail investors carried out more trades. That lift in customer...
Blockbuster earnings results from Dick's Sporting Goods and Williams-Sonoma suggest consumer spending is in good shape (DKS, WSM)
Blockbuster earnings results from Dick's Sporting Goods and Williams-Sonoma suggest the consumer is in good shape. Dick's reported Q2 earnings results on Wednesday that blew past estimates and showed robust...
Don't fall for absurd galaxy-brain contrarians 'explaining' America's conspiracy-theory culture. They ignore the real culprits.
Want to know why so many "just regular folks" think the 2020 election was stolen and why so many of those same people refuse to get the COVID vaccine? According to the authors of a pair of viral Twitter...
US stocks mixed as investors digest higher than expected jobless claims and await Powell's speech
US stocks were largely flat Thursday morning as traders awaited Fed chair Jerome Powell's speech at the Jackson Hole Symposium and digested higher than expected jobless claims. The S&P 500 slipped tk% after hitting...
Australia's largest state hits record-high COVID-19 cases despite weeks of strict lockdown. 'It's a tinderbox ready to explode,' one official said.
Australia's largest state has more COVID-19 cases than ever before, despite weeks of strict lockdown. New South Wales, home to Australia's capital city Sydney, recorded 1,029 new infections on Wednesday, according to...
Ex-WeWork CEO Adam Neumann just hired a veteran crisis PR firm to revive his brand
Adam Neumann, cofounder and former CEO of WeWork, has hired public relations firm Goldin Solutions as the disgraced entrepreneur plots a comeback. Neumann is investing in startups like a residential concierge service...
A flight attendant says she was too exhausted to report a passenger who shoved her when a flight was overbooked: report
A flight attendant told The New York Times she was shoved by a passenger in May — but felt too exhausted to report the incident. Nas Lewis, a flight attendant based in Chicago, told The Times that the passenger...
The Time's Up CEO told colleagues not to back the first woman who publicly accused Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, report says
The head of Time's Up, the advocacy group set up in the wake of #MeToo, told colleagues not to offer support to the first woman who publicly accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual assault, The Washington...
This 25-year-old UX designer was laid off in the pandemic. Here's how he launched an academy that made $166,000 in 13 months.
Zaire Allen, 25, founded Love Circular, a digital academy for aspiring user experience and user interface designers, who build the visual and interactive components for apps and websites. He launched it in July 2020,...
Crypto investor Su Zhu says he's bullish on dogecoin — and values its appeal to everyday investors
Crypto investor Su Zhu is bullish on dogecoin because its affordability, accessibility, and name recognition appeals to everyday investors, he said on an episode of his Uncommon Core podcast released on Wednesday. The...
A rare partnership between Google and Apple promised to slow COVID-19 - newly revealed data shows why it flopped in the US
As the world descended into COVID-19 chaos in the spring of 2020, Apple and Google announced a rare partnership. The two arch-rivals were collaborating on a plan to transform smartphones into powerful weapons to stop...
Israel reduced intelligence sharing with the US this spring because Benjamin Netanyahu didn't trust the Biden administration, report says
Israel reduced the amount of intelligence it shared with the US this spring as then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not trust President Joe Biden's administration, The New York Times reported. American and...
Warren Buffett's favorite market indicator hits 205%, signaling stocks are way too expensive and a crash may be coming
Warren Buffett's favorite market indicator has climbed to 205%, signaling stocks are vastly overpriced and a crash may be coming. The "Buffett indicator" takes the combined market capitalization of all...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shares how his childhood and love of tennis shaped his demanding leadership style
If Andy Jassy's childhood dream had come true, he'd be training for the next Wimbledon. Fortunately, his actual job is pretty high-profile, too. In a recent Amazon-hosted fireside chat, the 53-year-old CEO shared how...
There's a battle brewing over salaries for remote workers — and it could change the way everyone gets paid
It's always been the ultimate dream of remote work: living in luxury, somewhere cheap, on a big-city salary. For the first year of the pandemic, many white-collar professionals got to play this game of geographic...
This self-proclaimed 'Stepford wife' retrained as a lawyer in her 40s. Still practising at 72, she insists nobody is too old to make a 'life-affirming' career change.
A self-proclaimed "Stepford wife" who retrained as a lawyer in her 40s insists that nobody is too old to make a "life-affirming" career change. Elizabeth Hepworth, who is still practising law aged...
The CEO of a smoothie chain with 1,000 stores says his best-performing cafes are the ones that pay staff the most
The CEO of a smoothie chain that's set to open its 1,000th branch next month says its best-performing stores are the ones that pay the highest wages. "Our franchisees that run the best cafes and have the best...