If Robert Kaplan still had a say in the matter, he’d be pushing for a half percentage point interest rate reduction at this week’s Federal Reserve meeting.The former Dallas Fed president told CNBC on Tuesday that making the bolder move of 50 basis points would better position policymakers heading into…

Sam’s Club said Tuesday it will raise pay to incentivize workers to stay with the company — and not jump ship to Costco. Sam’s Club, the membership club arm of Walmart, will increase its minimum wage to $16 starting in November from $15 an hour. It will also raise wages…

This article was written byFollowI have been a keen student of the markets for several years now. I love studying how companies grow over time, what value they deliver to their stakeholders, and projecting long-term value as an investment opportunity. I work as a content professional for a software company,…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Technology companies will have to “work within the climate limits”, Ireland’s environment minister has warned, as the popular hub for data centres grapples with the surge of energy-intensive systems.Eamon Ryan, minister for…

Marcia Ruberg is old enough to remember what the country was like for women before the Supreme Court established a federal right to abortion in 1973, and the nearly 50 years that followed. On Sunday, the 69-year-old retired psychologist, whose shirt read “Vote Like it’s 1973,” joined about 100 voters…

It’s an issue for some adult children with aging parents. When the elders need care, there is resistance to using the parent’s own funds to cover the cost of caregiving. It’s puzzling. For example, faithful son (FS) has been taking care of his mom by himself for 25 years. He…

The suspect in an apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump is making his first appearance Monday in federal court in Florida.The man, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, appeared in shackles and dark blue jail attire before magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe, NBC News reported.He appeared unbothered and nonchalant as he sat with a public…

Drugmakers are betting that delivering radiation directly to tumors will become the next big cancer breakthrough. Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and other pharmaceutical companies have spent some $10 billion on deals to acquire or work with radiopharmaceuticals makers. They’ve snapped up smaller upstarts to get their hands on technology…

Elon Musk deleted a post Monday morning that questioned why former President Donald Trump has faced two apparent assassination attempts in recent months while President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not encountered any. Musk later claimed the post was a joke. “And no one is even trying…

Investing in growth stocks can be tricky, especially when it comes to some names that are trading at very high valuations. That’s when options traders take over the stock with heavy volume, as may be the case with NVIDIA (NVDA), making them more of a short-term trading vehicle than a…