Workplace biases are back in the national conversation, thanks to the recent memo by a Google employee. The memo’s author challenges the company’s diversity policies, arguing that psychological differences between men and women explain why fewer women work in tech. He also minimizes the effect that unconscious biases have on women in the workplace. Even […]
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Digital currency ethereum climbed Monday to a near two-month high amid renewed uncertainty about the future of bitcoin. Ethereum traded about 10 percent higher near $330 Monday afternoon, after earlier rising 15 percent to $347.05, its highest since June 23, according to CoinMarketCap. At its session high, the site’s data showed ethereum had gained 70 […]
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IT IS an often-heard office conversation. Someone returns from a trip with a nasty bug, and colleagues say he must have caught it from a germ-ridden plane. It is not unusual to come down with something nasty after flying. And as a fellow Gulliver reported last week, contaminated air on flights is widespread. Someone has […]
Read moreGoogle‘s latest operating system update now has a name: Android Oreo. The operating system is part of the artificial intelligence software push Google announced earlier this year at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. Google said in May that it would improve Google Photos and expand the reach and capabilities of Google Assistant. The company […]
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Copper prices zoomed 1.7 percent higher on Monday to reach levels not seen in nearly three years as investors bet on further global economic growth. Futures for September delivery reached a high of $3.0015 per pound, their highest since November 2014. The metal has also seen its value surge 3.5 percent this month, putting it […]
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There is an epic fight between the two major types of investors, which may determine whether the bull market can go on. Raymond James explained how value investors, who strictly study fundamentals, and technical analysts, who only look at charts, see the world differently right now. Market “battle lines are generally formed between those who […]
Read moreMajor U.S. averages were barely positive in Monday trading after two straight weeks of losses for the S&P 500, and some strategists say under-the-surface fissures in the market are becoming increasingly apparent. Part of the problem lies in the basic difficulty that the market is “priced to perfection” in terms of valuations, said Gina Sanchez, […]
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The demise of small-cap stocks is the latest example that the market is starting to lose faith in some of the investing themes that had been driving this year’s rally. As part of the so-called Trump trade, companies at the lower end of the market-cap spectrum were expected to flourish. The idea was that lower […]
Read moreApple has more than $1 billion budgeted for original programming, Facebook wants its own version of “Scandal” and Google is ready to spend up to $3 million per episode on a drama. The three digital giants have signaled to Hollywood that they are serious about entering a television landscape that Netflix and Amazon shook up […]
Read moreThe U.S. economy and corporate earnings continue to impress, but markets’ positive momentum has been sapped by the political follies of the Trump administration. And from a trading perspective, the U.S. dollar is unlikely to stage much of a comeback unless the tone from Washington becomes decidedly more disciplined. It is no secret that the […]
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