Are you getting paid fairly? Here’s how to figure out your worth and how to ask for a raise this year. If you’re like most people-64%, according to Payscale’s “2016 Compensation Best Practices Report” -you feel like you aren’t being paid fairly.
Day: January 5, 2017
Here’s What Employees Should Be Worried About This Year
A lot is likely to change for American workers in 2017. Here are the biggest things on the horizon and a few things to be hopeful about.
Toyota Will Take Trump’s Decisions Into Account on Mexico Plant
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda said he’ll take U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s decisions into account when planning for the automaker’s Mexican operations, after Ford Motor Co. scrapped plans to build a new plant there.
Higher Fuel and Labor Costs Mean You’ll Pay More to Fly in 2017
After a comfortable two-year spell of cheap fuel and no major crises to dampen travel demand, U.S. airlines are in for what looks to be a more turbulent 2017. Buckle up.
Trump Lucky to Inherit Healthier Banking System, Greenwood Says
Donald Trump will enter the White House with the U.S. banking system in far better shape than it was for Barack Obama’s arrival eight years ago, according to Invesco chief economist John Greenwood. With Trump’s inauguration just two weeks away, the U.S. business cycle is in line for several years of expansion as bank lending is growing and activity has normalized, reducing the need for the Federal Reserve to create credit as it did under quantitative easing, Greenwood said Thursday at a news conference in Hong Kong.
The Latest: Investor says he’d sell casino to mayor at $300M
The Latest on Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian’s call for billionaire investor Carl Icahn to sell the shuttered Trump Taj Mahal casino : Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he’d be happy to sell Atlantic City’s former Trump Taj Mahal casino – if the city’s mayor bought it. Icahn was responding to comments Wednesday by Republican Mayor Don Guardian, who called on Icahn to sell the casino, make a profit and move on.
Atlantic City mayor urges Icahn to sell ex-Taj Mahal casino
This Oct. 10, 2016 photo shows striking union members picketing outside the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City N.J. moments before it shut down. Owner Carl Icahn plans to surrender the casino license for the shuttered facility, and has filed a … deed restriction against the property preventing any future buyer from using it as a casino unless they pay an unspecified fee.
Amazon’s Alexa is officially coming to Ford cars
Ford has teamed up with Amazon to bring Alexa into its cars, the automaker announced at a press dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The integration will let Ford users with SYNC 3 access Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, inside the car to do things like check the weather, play audiobooks, add items to shopping lists, and even control Alexa enabled smart home devices.
Fed Officials Worry Quicker Rate Hikes May Be Needed
The Federal Reserve released the minutes of its December policy meeting on Wednesday. Bloomberg’s Jenna Smialek reports on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Alibaba Sues Sellers of Fake Swarovski Watches in Crackdown
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sued two vendors it said used the company’s Taobao website to sell counterfeit Swarovski watches, just weeks after the site was labeled a haven for knockoffs by U.S. regulators. The lawsuit is the first legal action taken by an e-commerce site in China against sellers of counterfeit goods and Alibaba seeks 1.4 million yuan in damages, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
Libya Oil-Export Terminal Said to Re-Open as Crude Output Rises
Libya is re-opening its last major oil-export terminal that was shut amid fighting that hobbled output in the country with Africa’s largest crude reserves. The Zawiya terminal is preparing to resume exports after the pipeline supplying it was re-opened, an official at the state-run National Oil Corp. said, asking not to be identified for lack of authorization to speak to news media.
Former Fed board member J. Dewey Daane has died
J. Dewey Daane, a noted expert on monetary policy who was nominated to serve on the Federal Reserve board by President John F. Kennedy, has died. He was 98. His death Tuesday in Nashville was announced by Vanderbilt University where Daane had been a longtime professor at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
Ex-Hedge Fund Manager Generates 51% Return From Skiers? Paradise
The region of Trondelag is the cradle of Norway’s Winter Olympic dominance, with 14 gold medals over the past two events alone. Now, Jomar Kilnes, a former hedge fund manager who has come home after more than a decade in the Bahamas and the U.S., is showing that delivering outsized investment returns is the area’s real forte.
TRAI to meet CEOs of Airtel, Vodafone, Jio and Idea to discuss roadmap for 2017
In a first-of-its-kind exercise, regulator TRAI is scheduled to meet CEOs of all telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Jio, on Friday to discuss and identify important issues that need to taken up during the year. A similar meeting is slated with top executives of cable and broadcasting companies, multiple-system operators and DTH operators on January 10, TRAI sources said.