Bloomingdale’s is just one of the retailers and brands trying to tap into Barbie buzz. It has a pop-up with exclusive Barbie-inspired apparel and accessories, along with a life-size Barbie box where shoppers can strike a pose. Bloomingdale’s NEW YORK CITY — In the middle of Manhattan, shoppers can step inside a life-size Barbie box;
The Evergrande Group headquarters building in Shenzhen is pictured on January 11, 2022 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. Liang Xiashun | Visual China Group | Getty Images China Evergrande Group posted a combined loss of $81 billion in its long overdue earnings report late on Monday. The world’s most indebted property developer fell into
In this article SCHW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walter “Walt” Bettinger, president and CEO of Charles Schwab, speaks during the 2015 Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, Nov. 3, 2015. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Charles Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger said Tuesday that retail investors using his brokerage platform are
Singapore has overtaken Japan to boast of the world’s most powerful passport, the Henley Passport Index showed. What it means is that the Singapore passport allows holders visa-free entry to 192 destinations out of 227 in the world. The global passport ranking for 2023 was conducted based on data provided by the International Air Transport
People rally in support of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan in front of the the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 28, 2023. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Following a Supreme Court ruling last month that effectively killed President Joe Biden’s original student loan forgiveness plan, the White House is quickly moving
Living with memory loss and other cognitive limitations is hard. But when you can’t remember or can’t process information well enough to make important decisions, and you have no one by your side to support you, life can be extra tough. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco ((UCSF) estimate that about 4.3 million
Marna Ricker, EY’s global vice chair of tax, discusses how international tax advisers and corporate tax clients have handled recent tax reforms and what to expect next. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David D. Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax Notes Today International. This
Amidst warnings from scientists and engineers that artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing more quickly than the resolution of ethical control issues surrounding it, ChatGPT has arrived in the residential real estate universe. Agents countrywide have begun using it to write listing descriptions and assemble pitch packages. Just last week, one of our New York agents
In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday sued the Biden administration over Medicare’s new powers to slash drug prices, making it the third pharmaceutical company to challenge the controversial provision of the Inflation Reduction Act. The lawsuit filed in federal
In this article MS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO of Morgan Stanley James Gorman speaks in New York, May 6, 2014. Getty Images Morgan Stanley on Tuesday posted second-quarter earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, helped by record wealth management results. Here’s what the company reported: Earnings: $1.24 a share vs $1.15
In this article SCHW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A man passes by a location of financial broker Charles Schwab in the financial district in New York, March 20, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Shares of brokerage firm Charles Schwab rose sharply Tuesday after the company’s second-quarter report topped expectations. Schwab generated 75 cents
Yanolja founder and chairman Lee Su-jin started his lucrative career in the travel industry as a motel janitor. The experience inspired him to launch hotel booking site Yanolja, which is Korean for “Hey, let’s play,” in 2007. Now also a popular travel app, the brand’s become a global phenomenon with over 57 million downloads, according
Supporters of student debt forgiveness demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images If you’re expecting debt cancellation from the latest round of student loan forgiveness, there’s good news: It won’t trigger a federal tax bill. The Biden administration on Friday announced a
Those paying close attention to Social Security will recall the latest trustees’ report detailing how the Social Security trust fund could run short of money as early as 2034 unless Congress acts to shore up the system’s finances. The report also noted that “lawmakers have many options for changes that would reduce or eliminate the
School funding is back in the news as states struggle to reverse trends suggesting that students are performing at lower levels than before. Specifically, the country’s 13-year-olds showed the most significant declines ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress trend assessment in mathematics. The average math score for 13-year-olds declined 9 points between
Anyone with an eye for detail will be awestruck at this Spanish Colonial Revival estate in Santa Barbara’s Hope Ranch enclave. La Sonrisa was designed in 1931 by Floyd E. Brewster, a protégé of architect George Washington Smith, who worked with Carleton Winslow Sr. on the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The property sits
In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Eli Lilly on Monday said it applied for full U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of its Alzheimer’s treatment, donanemab, and expects the agency to make a decision by the end of the year. The application is based on positive phase three clinical trial results
In this article BAC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America Corp., during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., Sept. 22, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bank of America on Tuesday posted second quarter profit and revenue that edged out
Former U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger appears on a screen as he delivers a video address to the participants of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023, in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, January 17, 2023. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters BEIJING — Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of State, met with China’s defense minister, Li
Kate_sept2004 | E+ | Getty Images As Americans with student loan debt brace for their monthly payments to restart and recover from the recent sting of the Supreme Court’s ruling against loan forgiveness, some groups are looking to the workplace as a firewall to funnel aid to borrowers. SHRM, a group representing human resources professionals,