Sales at McDonald’s Rise, Driven by Value Meals and Grinch Socks
Profits were up as the fast-food giant focused on price-conscious customers. But the company said it would cut back on financial support for franchisees.
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U.S. Health Officials Defend Rejection of Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
The F.D.A.’s refusal to examine the company’s mRNA shot drew widespread criticism from doctors and was divisive within the agency.
These funds protect against market drops. Demand is booming
Investors seeking protection from market losses have piled into buffer exchange-traded funds — and that demand is expected to continue. The products, also known as defined-outcome ETFs, use options contracts to provide some buffer against market losses. However, they come at a cost: The average fee in 2025 was 75 basis points annually, according to…
Research Roundup: Salary Disparities, Managers Who Squash Ideas, Exclamation Points, and More
Fresh insights from academic research, consultancies, and other expert sources.
RBI looks to ban sales incentive to bank staffers from third party | Finance News
In a move aimed at curbing the mis-selling of financial products, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed banning incentives paid to bank staffers by third parties such as insurance companies and mutual fund houses for selling their products and services. It has also proposed that banks must ensure their user interfaces do…
US adds 130,000 jobs in January, 2024 payrolls cut by nearly 900,000 | World News
US employers added a surprisingly strong 1,30,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 US payrolls by hundreds of thousands. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 per cent, the Labour Department said Wednesday. The report included major revisions that reduced the number of jobs created last year to just 1,81,000, weakest…
Job Growth Was Overstated, New Data Shows
Annual revisions show that employers added far fewer jobs in 2024 and 2025 than previously estimated.
Easing Unemployment Supports Fed Extending Pause on Rate Cuts
January’s jobs data, released on Wednesday, bolstered expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady for longer than previously expected.
Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI ‘productivity savings’
An employee checks a Heineken beer bottle on a packaging conveyor at the Heineken NV brewery in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands. Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dutch brewer Heineken is planning to lay off up to up to 7% of its workforce, as it looks to boost efficiency through productivity savings from AI, following weak…
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.