Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group Chairman and CEO Stephen Hemsley will face the first real test Tuesday of his ability to regain investor confidence as the largest private U.S. insurer reports earnings. The Dow component has seen its share price cut nearly in half since mid-May, with the stock on pace […]
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Conor here: Boosting that demand appears to be the plan. A quick look at Trump’s businesses, his actions during his first term, and listening to what workers are saying shows it to be the case. Trump’s businesses rely on and continue to seek H-2B non-agricultural “guest” workers. A crucial difference between the H-2B and H-2A—covering
Yves here. We’ve been making asides in Links and in posts about how frothy markets are. Investors seem to show no sign of fear, which historically has been a precursor to bad outcomes. Wolf does note a few exceptions, to which one should add private equity fundraising. Wolf’s big point is in the headline: the
Greetings gentle readers, welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s a classic from Kung Fu Theater: Master of the Flying Guillotine. Reviews: DVD Talk says: The best way I can describe why Master of The Flying Guillotine (1975 aka. One-Armed Boxer 2, One-Armed Boxer Vs the Flying Guillotine) is a classic
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FAA chief Steve Dickson flies a Boeing 737 MAX, from Boeing Field on September 30, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Mike Siegel | Getty Images After spiraling from crisis to crisis over much of the past seven years, Boeing is stabilizing under CEO Kelly Ortberg‘s leadership. Ortberg, a longtime aerospace executive and an engineer whom the
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Yves here. We’ve pointed out extremely cheery economic messaging on the front page of the Wall Street Journal over the past week, based heavily on stock market performance plus anecdata. This was the lead story a day ago: From its text: The set of turbulent recent events, which also has included the administration’s aggressive deportation
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This is a machine-translated version of an article originally published by Matichon, a major Thai-language national daily newspaper founded by a group of progressive writers in 1978. At 2:00 p.m. on July 26th, at the Ministry of Culture, Ms. Paethongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, held a meeting to follow up on the
A screen displays the the company logo for Goldman Sachs on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 7, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon are set to announce that they’ve created the ability for institutional investors to purchase tokenized
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Chipotle Mexican Grill on Wednesday cut its forecast for same-store sales growth this year after traffic declined for a second straight quarter. The burrito chain now anticipates flat same-store sales growth for 2025, down from its prior projection of a low-single-digit percentage increase. Chipotle trimmed its same-store sales outlook for the second consecutive quarter. But the company said sales trends are turning around. Starting
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