Category: Business
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Prediction: Here Are the 3 Stocks Warren Buffett Is Buying the Most in Q3
[ad_1] It’s no secret that Warren Buffett doesn’t find many stocks attractive enough to buy these days. He’s been a net seller of stocks for seven consecutive quarters. However, Buffett has still been buying a few stocks. We probably won’t know what trades the legendary investor made in the third quarter of 2024 until regulatory…
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I love being a middle manager. Amazon’s decision to cut middle managers saddens me — this role is misunderstood.
[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michelle Busch, a 46-year-old public relations middle manager in Washington, DC. The following has been edited for length and clarity. After working in hospitality management and at a small criminal justice government agency, social media took off, and I began to delve into communications. A…
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Rightmove to ‘carefully consider’ third takeover offer from Murdoch’s REA Group; German recession ‘baked in’ – business live
[ad_1] Introduction: Australia’s REA sweetens takeover offer for Rightmove to £6.1bn Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. When bidding for property, it’s important not to take no for an answer. Australia’s REA Group is taking this advice seriously, and has just launched its third…
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‘Four million’ homes could be built on green belt in Angela Rayner’s planning revolution
[ad_1] This includes releasing grey belt land – which Labour previously suggested would be made up of “disused car parks, dreary wasteland” – for development in the green belt. But her proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) may go far further in unlocking green belt development than anyone had expected. Based on…
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Sam Altman is joining forces with design guru Jony Ive and Steve Jobs’ widow to build a new AI device company
[ad_1] News of the collaboration was reported on by The Information in September 2023. Ive confirmed it in a profile published by The New York Times on Saturday. According to The Times, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky arranged for Altman and Ive to meet last year. Airbnb had engaged Ive’s design firm, LoveFrom, to work on…
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The next banking crisis could be spurred by climate change
[ad_1] America’s smallest banks face potentially destructive losses from climate-related weather disasters, according to a first-of-its-kind report from a climate change nonprofit. And they’re not even aware of the risk. Property damage from floods, wind, storm surges, hail, or wildfires threatens a collective $2.4 billion across nearly 200 national banks, averaging 1.5% of these banks’…
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Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election in political paradigm shift
[ad_1] Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting. No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the first round, where Dissanayake got 42.31% while his closest rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, got 32.76%. But Dissanayake, who promised voters good governance and…
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A software engineer at Salesforce shares the résumé hack that helped him land his first job out of his master’s program
[ad_1] Anup Ghatage was in his first year of a master’s degree when he came up with a unique strategy to make the most of a university career fair. He had only been at Carnegie Mellon University for three months and knew the career fair was not meant for non-graduating students. Still, he created custom…
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Kamala Harris’s favorability surge is the biggest for any candidate since Bush after 9/11
[ad_1] Vice President Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump in two national polls of registered voters released Sunday, underscoring her momentum as the US presidential candidates grapple for a boost with early voting underway in several states. Harris leads the former president and Republican nominee by 49% to 44%, which falls within the margin of…
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Lawmakers reach deal to avoid government shutdown and add funds for Secret Service
[ad_1] Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushing final decisions until after the November election. Temporary spending bills generally fund agencies at current levels, but an…