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What Home Depot’s billion-dollar pay raise can prove about workers

Workers walk through the garden center at a Home Depot store Scott Olson/Getty Images In its last quarterly earnings report, Home Depot forecast flat sales and lower profits for 2023, partly because consumers aren’t spending as much on home improvement products as they did during the pandemic, a boon period …

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Workers are secretly using ChatGPT, AI, with big risks for companies

Lionel Bonaventure | Afp | Getty Images Soaring investment from big tech companies in artificial intelligence and chatbots — amid massive layoffs and a growth decline — has left many chief information security officers in a whirlwind. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing AI, Google’s Bard and Elon Musk’s plan for …

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A psychologist shares 6 toxic phrases ‘highly narcissistic’ people always use—and how to deal with them

The world is full of difficult personalities, but the one that’s impossible to avoid is the narcissist. They are usually the most insecure people in the room, but have established a way of appearing ultra-confident. As a psychologist who studies narcissism, I’ve found that, in most cases, highly narcissistic people …

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Consumers are still splurging on dinner and drinks

Consumers are sending mixed signals. For the most part, people are concerned about inflation and the direction of the U.S. economy. Consumer spending sank in March, according to Morning Consult. “Sticker shock” has taken a toll, the report found, with consumers more likely to walk away from a purchase because the price …

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Patients may wait years for new drugs

Juanmonino | E+ | Getty Images Seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will face major hurdles to get treated even if promising new drugs roll out more broadly in the coming years, putting them at risk of developing more severe disease as they wait months or perhaps years for a diagnosis. …

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Florida is the top U.S. state retirees moved to in 2021

Retirees are flocking to Florida. The Sunshine State saw a massive influx of residents over 60 in 2021, according to a recent SmartAsset study. Over 78,000 seniors moved to Florida from other states during that time — more than to any other state, and more than three times as many …

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Cloud providers Amazon, Microsoft and Google face spending cuts

Amazon Web Services logo at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Henrique Casinhas | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The cloud-computing market keeps growing as companies move an increasing number of workloads out of their own data centers, but executives from the leading cloud vendors said this week that …

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BuzzFeed on the brink, Jonah Peretti tries turnaround

Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, attends his company’s public debut outside the Nasdaq in Times Square in New York City, Dec. 6, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Corporate stories have ebbs and flows, ups and downs. To this point, BuzzFeed‘s journey as a public company has been a …

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Top Wall Street research firms of the past decade

People are seen at the entrance of the UBS office in London, Britain March 20, 2023.  Henry Nicholls | Reuters After identifying the 10 best analysts on Wall Street of the past decade, here is a list of the 10 top research firms. To create this list, TipRanks analyzed every stock …

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SpaceX’s Starship costing about $2 billion this year

The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.  Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk expects SpaceX to spend about $2 billion on its Starship rocket development this year, as the company pushes …

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