Month: November 2019

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Marcelo Claure laid out WeWork’s new strategic plan. Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit Topline: A day after the company cut almost 20% of its workforce, WeWork’s new chairman, Marcelo Claure, addressed employees at an all-staff meeting on Friday in which he outlined sweeping changes to
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SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images While streaming platform Disney+ is off to a strong start, Wall Street analysts are not shying away from Netflix’s stock. In the week following Disney+’s launch, Netflix app downloads grew 4% year-over-year, Nomura Instinet noted, showing that Disney+ is not having a negative impact on Netflix’s growth potential.
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Getty In a year-end gift for the ultra-high net worth, the Internal Revenue Service today issued final rules confirming there’s no clawback for huge wealth transfers made under the Trump tax law. The new rules don’t include any big surprises; they follow proposed rules issued a
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Could the sun be setting on many commercial real estate jobs, as a result of technology disruption? Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Technology and automation have inexorably advanced over the last few decades. They have seemingly altered everything, say some observers, but commercial real estate. That is now rapidly changing. Dramatic tech disruption threatens the
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Rolls of gift paper hang on display at a Nordstrom Local concept store in New York, Sept. 5, 2019. Demetrius Freeman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Nordstrom spiked more than 10% during extended trading Thursday after the company reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates, and narrowed its 2019 earnings forecast. Although
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The multi-hued lights of stylish condos reflect off the calm waters of Tempe Town Lake in Arizona. Getty There have been mixed signals in the United States housing market in 2019. Some cities are continuing to see the post-housing crash momentum carry them onward, while in
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Abigail Disney, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Abigail Disney, the heiress to the world-renowned entertainment firm, has endorsed the proposed wealth tax from Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, slamming the wealthy people that are
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Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo. Ryan Anson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pure Storage, a manufacturer of high-speed storage equipment for data centers, became the latest tech infrastructure provider to issue weak guidance, at least in part because of worsening macroeconomic conditions and the U.S.-China trade war. Pure Storage shares plunged 21% in Friday’s premarket,
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President Donald Trump delayed announcing a flavored e-cigarette ban because he was “spooked” by the political ramifications, but a plan will likely still be implemented, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday. “I think that something’s going to get done here,” Gottlieb said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “They wouldn’t be putting on
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