Author: admin

When I picked up my phone last Tuesday morning, two messages caught my attention. One from a colleague said she’d been laid off, and another from HR asked me to check my personal email. My throat tightened.I found myself among the 14,000 corporate employees laid off by Amazon. I had just celebrated my one-year anniversary as a senior social media manager at Amazon Ads and it was exactly a week before my birthday. Talk about timing.My immediate reaction was disbelief. Was I still dreaming? Was the email spam? Even though there were rumors about layoffs the day before, everything had…

Cristiano Ronaldo believes Manchester United lacks structure and said coach Ruben Amorim is doing “his best” but cannot perform miracles.The Al Nassr captain left Man United in November 2022 by mutual consent after giving an explosive interview with Piers Morgan in which he criticised the club.While a new majority owner, Jim Ratcliffe of INEOS, has taken control of footballing matters at United since, Ronaldo still feels the club is “not in a good path” and “needs to change.””I’m sad because it’s one of the most important clubs in the world, a club that I still have in my heart,” Ronaldo,…

Palantir’s stock fell 8% on Tuesday as Wall Street analysts raised concerns about the company’s elevated valuation and “Big Short” investor Michael Burry revealed a short position in the software company.During an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday, CEO Alex Karp ripped into short sellers, calling their moves “market manipulation.”Karp called the positions “super triggering” and said they are “shorting one of the great businesses of the world.””Honestly, I think what is going on here is market manipulation,” Karp said. “We delivered the best results everyone, anyone’s ever seen.”The stock move overshadowed the company’s top-and-bottom-line beat and stronger-than-expected guidance.…

The federal government shutdown, which has now stretched past a month, has put critical services in jeopardy, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. To help fill the gap, individual donors are lending outsized support to hunger relief nonprofits.The SNAP program, formerly known as food stamps, is run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and provides basic assistance to about 42 million people. The agency cautioned last month that food aid would be suspended as the shutdown drags on.   A sign hangs at a customer service area, as the U.S. President Donald Trump administration said it plans on Monday to partially fund food…

If your home and work are on the opposite sides of town, you might have a long commute. If they’re on the opposite sides of the country, you have quite the supercommute.That’s the case for Memwanesha Daniels.Daniels, who describes her career as “bicoastal nursing,” lives with her boyfriend and three kids, ages 2 to 13, in Jacksonville, Florida, but works in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she says she’s able to make three times as much as when she worked locally in Jacksonville.When she was in nursing school, hearing of registered nurses making good money in the Bay Area…

The logos of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, maker of the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss treatments Ozempic and Wegovy is seen outside theri building as the company presents the annual report at Novo Nordisk in Bagsvaerd, Denmark, on February 5, 2025. Mads Claus Rasmussen | Afp | Getty ImagesMetsera on Tuesday said Novo Nordisk’s new bid for the obesity biotech is “superior” to a revised offer from Pfizer, escalating a heated tussle over the startup between the two pharmaceutical giants. Novo Nordisk’s new proposal values Metsera at up to $86.20 per share, for a total of around $10 billion. In a release,…

Beth LindopNov 4, 2025, 09:28 AM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Anfield mural has been vandalised ahead of his return to Liverpool with Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League.Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool at the end of last season, having made 354 appearances for his boyhood club after joining their academy at the age of six.The 27-year-old attracted criticism from some supporters after running down his contract on Merseyside and could face a hostile reception if he lines up for Xabi Alonso’s side at Anfield on Tuesday night.Ahead of…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that there are other options in case of defeat as the Supreme Court is about to hear a landmark case on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.The high court is set Wednesday to hear arguments on whether Trump exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enact sweeping duties on U.S. trading partners.At stake is the leeway presidents have to wield over trade measures as a tool of economic policy. Bessent expressed confidence in a CNBC “Squawk Box” interview that the administration will prevail, but has additional outlets it can use in case…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp ranted against short sellers, calling out specifically Michael Burry after a filing revealed the investor of “The Big Short” fame had bets against the artificial intelligence software company, as well as Nvidia, at the end of the last quarter.”The two companies he’s shorting are the ones making all the money, which is super weird,” Karp told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday. “The idea that chips and ontology is what you want to short is bats— crazy.””He’s actually putting a short on AI. … It was us and Nvidia,” Karp added.When reached via email by CNBC seeking…

Representation of Bitcoin cryptocurrency in this illustration taken Sept. 10, 2025. Dado Ruvic | ReutersBitcoin on Tuesday plunged below $100,000 for the first time in more than four months, as cryptocurrency holders backed off the risk-on asset amid growing concerns about the sustainability of stock valuations driven to stratospheric heights by the artificial intelligence trade.Bitcoin was last trading 5% lower on the day at $100,893, dipping at one point as low as $99,966. Tuesday marked the first time since June 23 that the flagship cryptocurrency traded below $100,000. Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, shed nearly 9% on Tuesday…