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Tech stocks helped lift the S & P 500 to a record in the first half, but Deepwater Asset Management’s Gene Munster said the artificial intelligence trade still has room to run in 2025 — and he shared a couple of his picks. The broad market index made a stunning turnaround from its April lows to end June with a second-quarter gain of nearly 11%. The information technology sector, which includes Nvidia and Palantir , jumped more than 23% in the quarter, as the return of the AI trade propelled the advance. .GSPT YTD mountain The S & P 500’s…
As millennials, my husband and I have long been aware that our likelihood of home ownership was abysmal. After all, the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis was still fresh in our memories as we began designing our future. So, in 2009, when we got the opportunity to have our own home built, we went all in.At the time, we were sharing a bedroom in my parents’ home with our 15-month-old, and I’d just discovered I was pregnant again. Talks of getting a house happened quickly, but it felt more like wishful thinking than something that would pan out.However, when my husband…
Americans are embracing health and wellness — and none more than Gen Z and millennials. People are spending more than $500 billion in the United States on wellness, and it is growing at 4% to 5% each year, according to McKinsey . Nearly 30% of Gen Zers and millennials said they are prioritizing wellness “a lot more” compared to a year ago, the report said. In comparison, 23% of the older generations replied the same. Bank of America’s credit card data backs that up. Spending in fitness clubs, for example, has been rising across the board for several months, but…
What used to be one of the sleepiest times of year for retailers has turned into a major shopping event thanks to Amazon.Amazon’s Prime Day this year will last four days between July 8 and 11 — longer than it has run before, and the earliest that the sale has started.A range of other retailers, from Dollar General to REI, are also offering sales that coincide with or start earlier than Prime Day.Fourth-of-July sales for products, such as mattresses or seasonal items like lawnmowers and inflatable pools, have been around longer than Prime Day. Overall, though, early summer was historically…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Opec+ will increase production again next month as the Saudi Arabia-led oil cartel seeks to win back market share in a move that is likely to put downward pressure on crude prices.Eight members of the producer group, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Russia, said on Saturday that they would raise headline production in August by a combined 548,000 barrels a day, up from a planned increase in July of 411,000 b/d. The move speeds up the unwinding of…
It can be challenging to keep up with all of the slang your Gen Z coworkers use.Employees who are part of Generation Z — those born between 1997 and 2012 — are introducing coworkers to a variety of new phrases in the workplace.The new generation of workers is bringing their personalities into the office, and thus, their jargon. “We now take our work home readily and easily, basically in our pockets with our phones,” Carrie Bulger, an industrial-organizational psychologist at Quinnipiac University, told Business Insider’s Emily Stewart in June. “The lines are blurred no matter what. Why wouldn’t they blur…
It’s just not enough to cold apply for tech jobs anymore, said Aashna Doshi, a two-time intern turned software engineer at Google. To land a spot at a tech giant, you need to be networking “intentionally.””Knowing who you want to meet, finding that common bridge between both of you, and then really learning from their experience, was a big game changer for me,” Doshi told Business Insider.Doshi suggests reaching out not only to people whose career paths you’d like to emulate, but also those with whom you share common ground, including similar personal experiences.”I was talking to a bunch of…
I’m from America, but I couldn’t achieve the American dream if I stayed in the States.I graduated from college on the heels of 2008’s Great Recession. It seemed like nobody was hiring. I built a career writing for travel magazines and news outlets to keep up with student loan payments that started at around $900 a month.When COVID hit, I lost clients, and my financial situation became dire. Loans and rent gobbled up nearly $2,000 a month before car payments. I moved in with my sister and then tried living in a dirt-cheap trailer, but I couldn’t make up for…
What do you say in a cold outreach message? Should your work history be lifted verbatim from your résumé? Do you use first- or third-person in describing yourself?Anyone who’s ever tinkered with their LinkedIn profile has probably found themselves asking questions like these.BI asked LinkedIn experts for their tips on optimizing your LinkedIn profile and building your professional brand on the site. The next time you need to brush up on your profile (hint: you’re probably not doing it enough), here are their do’s and don’ts for using the networking site.Optimizing your profileLinkedIn gives you the option to default to…
My iPhone threatens to ruin my reputation, career, marriage, friendships, or entire life. Several times a week. Sometimes, I look down to discover it’s been — unbeknownst to me — recording an audio message.With one wrong move, I could accidentally send that accidental audio message to, well, anyone.What might have been in those few minutes of surreptitiously recorded audio? Most likely, just ambient white noise coming from inside my purse or pocket. But it could be terrible! Maybe I was singing along (badly) to the radio. Maybe I was loudly discussing some scandalous social gossip or confidential work information. Maybe…