This new set of towers in Dubai will have its own indoor rainforest
Dubai, the land of towering skyscrapers, is getting yet another set of buildings. The Rosemont Hotel & Residences is a massive, double-tower complex that's currently being constructed under the...
View ArticleThe 8th year of a presidency is bad news for stocks
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.How stocks react to an election year (Stock Trader's Almanac)Stock Trader's...
View ArticleFacebook explodes on Q4 earnings beat (FB)
Facebook just reported its fourth-quarter earnings!The stock exploded more than 13% after Facebook beat estimates on the top and bottom line, as well as on the company's solid user growth.Here are the...
View ArticleEven if you're getting old, the Cadillac CTS-V will make you feel young (gm)
Cadillac is General Motors' luxury brand, has been for over 100 years — and is undergoing a major reinvention.Sales and marketing operations were moved to New York City in 2014, in order to make Caddy...
View Article‘Moo’ sounds, hiding pregnancies and having ideas stolen — this is how bad it...
Former investment banker-turned-novelist Maureen Sherry has shared a jaw-dropping account in the New York Times on Saturday about her experience with sexism on Wall Street.Sherry, who worked as a...
View ArticleSTOCKS FALL AFTER THE FED: Here's what you need to know (SPY, DJI, IXIC, SPX,...
The Federal Reserve did not raise interest rates, as expected. But some parts of its statement were dovish, and stocks fell.First, the scoreboard:Dow: 15,940.01, -227.22, (-1.41%)S&P 500: 1,881.44,...
View ArticleEx-Fannie Mae CEO urges U.S. judge to toss SEC fraud case
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - Daniel Mudd, the last holdout among former top Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives accused of concealing risky mortgages that fueled the financial crisis, told a...
View ArticleeBay's stock is tanking after its Q4 earnings report (ebay)
eBay's stock is taking after a Q4 earnings report in which the ecommerce company said that revenue during the crucial holiday shopping quarter was flat year over year and provided a soft business...
View ArticleThe 2 reasons US college endowments suffered in 2015
Colleges and universities in the US received a record $40.3 billion in charitable giving in 2015, according to an annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE).But that charitable giving did...
View ArticleFacebook revenue jumps 51.7 percent as mobile drives ad sales
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc reported a 51.7 percent jump in revenue for the final quarter of 2015 as new advertising formats and an improved mobile app drove a sharp rise in ad sales.The company's total...
View ArticleEBay's fails to post revenue growth in holiday quarter
(Reuters) - EBay Inc reported no growth in revenue in the holiday quarter, during which it faced intense competition in the holiday-season from bigger e-commerce rival Amazon.com Inc as well as...
View ArticleAn important life lesson for anyone working on Wall Street
For young people working hard on Wall Street, it's easy to get caught up in the daily grind and lose sight of what's important.But one successful young Wall Streeter told Business Insider how crucial...
View ArticleFacebook put the brakes on spending at the end of the year (FB)
Facebook clamped down on spending in a big way in the last three months of the year. The company's operating expenses as a percentage of revenue were down sequentially and year-on-year in all...
View ArticleFacebook is killing it in the U.S. (FB)
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook spent a lot of time blaming global economic conditions for the company's poor guidance. The stock finished down almost 6% today as a result.But Facebook just reported...
View ArticleAT&T CEO: All the things that 'went the economy's way' in 2015 probably won't...
When it comes down to it, the US economy didn't have a bad 2015.GDP growth was in the same range as its been since the financial crisis, jobs were added, and consumers were spending money.And all in...
View ArticleResearchers discovered a simple psychological trick that will make you a...
When you're negotiating a big transaction, an initial offer of $1 million might seem indistinguishable from an offer of $1.01 million.But in reality, the $1.01 million bid could be a lot more likely to...
View ArticleBoeing says China and cheap oil haven't hurt demand as its stock gets...
Boeing stock closed down 9% on Wednesday after the company announced that its projected 2016 revenue of $93 to $95 billion will miss analyst expectations of $97.3 billion. Shares of the airplane maker...
View ArticleU.S. judge asked to halt GM ignition-switch settlement
By Jessica DyeNEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge was asked on Wednesday to rescind approval for a settlement fund to resolve 1,380 lawsuits claiming that an ignition switch in General Motors vehicles...
View ArticleU.S. crude falls back after jumping on hopes of Russia, OPEC cooperation
SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. crude futures fell more than 1 percent in Asian trading on Thursday, paring gains of nearly 3 percent in the previous session, after Russia held out the possibility of...
View ArticleMicrosoft beats on revenue and profit, stock pops (MSFT)
Microsoft's fast-growing cloud business helped the company post a nice beat for the holiday shopping quarter of 2015 — and the stock jumped by as much as 8%.Here's the report:Revenue of $25.7 billion...
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