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If someone tells you to “bring your whole self to work,” don’t listen, says psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.Like many other workplace platitudes, the intention of the phrase is “truly positive, even if naive,” according to Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at Columbia University.”It’s an attempt to tell particularly individuals that are part of the outgroup that they should not feel any pressure to conform to the norm,” he tells CNBC Make It, adding that it’s “an invitation to feel free to express themselves.”People tend to be more engaged and satisfied when they feel that they can bring “more dimensions of…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ford Motor — The Detroit automaker surged 10.7% following its third-quarter earnings beat . Ford’s adjusted earnings of 45 cents per share topped the 36 cents expected from analysts polled by LSEG. Revenue came in at $47.19 billion, versus the $43.08 billion consensus estimate. Alphabet — Shares of the tech giant popped 2.5% after artificial intelligence company Anthropic and Alphabet’s Google officially announced their cloud partnership . The deal, worth tens of billions of dollars, gives Anthropic access to up to one million of Google’s custom-designed Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. Intel —…

Bruno Fernandes has revealed that Manchester United were willing to sanction his move to Al Hilal in the summer if he had chosen to accept their mega-money offer.Fernandes is set to make his 300th appearance for United against Brighton at Old Trafford on Saturday. But ahead of the game he’s detailed just how close he came to leaving the club during the transfer window.”I had the conversations with Al Hilal, everyone is aware of that,” Fernandes said. “There were also other clubs that tried after Al Hilal, but obviously my answer wouldn’t change. From Saudi, also from Europe.”I had some…

The headquaters of US auto company General Motos (GM) in Detroit, Michigan.Uli Deck | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesDETROIT – General Motors laid off more than 200 salaried employees on Friday, as the automaker continues to reevaluate its businesses and cut costs to boost profits.The impacted employees were largely Computer-Aided Design, or CAD, engineers who worked at the company’s global tech campus in metro Detroit, according to GM.”We’re restructuring our design engineering team to strengthen our core architectural design engineering capabilities,” GM said in an emailed statement. “As a result, a number of CAD execution roles have been eliminated. We…

A shopper at a grocery store in Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2025.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday released its much-anticipated consumer price index report, delayed a week and a half because of the government shutdown.Here are the five most important takeaways:While inflation is still running well ahead of the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal, it’s showing no signs of runaway and in fact is easing, at least a bit, in some key areas. The headline gain of 0.3% monthly and 3% annually both were slightly below consensus forecasts. Same for core CPI excluding food…

Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), during a fireside chat at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, India, on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Gabriela Bhaskar | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Advanced Micro Devices jumped nearly 8% on Friday following a report that IBM can utilize the company’s chips to run a quantum computing error correction algorithm.IBM shares gained about 8% and headed for their best day since January.Reuters reported on Friday that a paper will publish next week showing that IBM can run a quantum error correction algorithm on AMD’s…

New-car prices have never been higher.The average sale price reached $50,080 in September, marking the first time it has topped $50,000, according to Kelley Blue Book.The milestone came as shoppers rushed to buy electric vehicles before a $7,500 federal tax credit expired on Sept. 30, with EVs selling for an average of $58,124, which helped push overall prices higher, according to KBB.While new-car prices typically rise in early fall, September’s year-over-year increase was the largest since the spring of 2023, driven by EV purchases, higher luxury sales and, to a lesser extent, tariffs, KBB says.”Now that [the EV] incentive is…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge in New Mexico has halted a federal death penalty case, citing the pinch of the U.S. government shutdown and a funding shortfall for specialized public defenders that stretches back to the summer.The Trump administration in July announced plans to seek the death penalty for Labar Tsethlikai in connection with a string of kidnappings that involved sexual abuse and two deaths — a hallmark case in efforts to bring justice for missing and murdered individuals in Native American communities. The 52-year-old defendant from Zuni Pueblo has pleaded not guilty.Death penalty cases are especially costly…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. government plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, and could do so as early as Oct. 31, according to a Friday court filing. The Salvadoran national’s case has become a magnet for opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies since he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, in violation of a settlement agreement. He was returned to the U.S. in June after the U.S. Supreme Court said the administration had to work to bring him back. Since he cannot be re-deported to El Salvador, ICE has been seeking to deport him to a series…

President Donald Trump will speak at a telephone rally late Friday on the eve of early voting in support of Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, Jack Ciattarelli, to boost the GOP’s chances of defeating Democrat Mikie Sherrill and flipping the state next month.Trump had previously endorsed Ciattarelli, who has embraced the support of the Republican president, given him an “A” grade for his performance in the White House, but has not campaigned alongside him. He said the president’s team has offered “anything that you think can help the campaign.”New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states holding gubernatorial…