If the bosses at Boeing intended for CEO Dave Calhoun’s performance during a Senate hearing to smooth over the company’s abject turmoil, they were woefully mistaken. Calhoun was forced Tuesday to answer on the record whether the embattled aerospace company had retaliated against any of the more than a dozen whistleblowers who have raised concerns […]
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Trump Is Now Openly Threatening CEOs Who Don’t Support Him
Donald Trump is taking aim at business leaders, saying they should be fired if they don’t support him. In two long Truth Social posts on Tuesday quoting a Wall Street Journal article, Trump said “Business Executives and Shareholder Representatives should be 100% behind Donald Trump! Anybody that’s not should be FIRED for incompetence!” Lately, Trump […]
Donald Trump is dangling tax cuts and less red tape to win over top CEOs
Sean Rayford/Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI Donald Trump met with some of America’s top CEOs Thursday. The former president pledged to slash taxes and red tape in a bid to win over corporate America. Apple CEO Tim Cook and JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon were among those attending the event. Donald Trump made his pitch to […]
CEOs worry about Trump’s mental decline after “meandering” talk
Former President Donald Trump’s return to Capitol Hill on Thursday was marked by him insulting the host of the upcoming Republican convention, fantasizing about a relationship with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and, according to one report, alienating business leaders who came away from a meeting worried about his mental capacity. Andrew Sorkin, a financial […]
Donald Trump is dangling tax cuts and less red tape to win over top CEOs
Donald Trump met with some of America’s top CEOs Thursday. The former president pledged to slash taxes and red tape in a bid to win over corporate America. Apple CEO Tim Cook and JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon were among those attending the event. Donald Trump made his pitch to some of America’s top CEOs Thursday, […]
Trump offers CEOs a cut to corporate taxes. Biden’s team touts his support for global alliances
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump told an influential group of CEOs that he wants to further cut the corporate tax rate he lowered while in office, while President Joe Biden’s chief of staff separately told them that the Democratic incumbent’s emphasis on global alliances would help their businesses. Both Trump, the presumptive Republican […]
Biden’s team asks CEOs how to further boost the economy while Trump says business is on his side
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden likes to take a hard thwack at corporate America. The Democrat tells voters that companies should pay more in taxes and he blames many businesses for fueling higher prices by stoking “greedflation” and “shrinkflation.” But for the past several months, top Biden administration officials have […]
CEO’s top tip for young investors: Do the math
What advice would you give to young people today that could change their lives? Sylvia Jablonski, CEO of Defiance ETFs, offers a straightforward yet impactful piece of advice: avoid spending all your money on social activities and invest for long-term financial freedom. “Don’t go out every night and spend all your money on food and […]
Most CEOs are defeating attempts to vote down their pay. Can Tesla’s Elon Musk do the same?
Most bosses are defeating attempts so far this year to tamp down their pay. The question now is whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk can do the same. Just two companies out of 340 that held shareholder votes on CEO pay as of June 6 had their executive pay packages rejected, according to ISS-Corporate, a business […]
Big Tech CEOs are lining up to back Trump. Don’t be surprised.
There’s been a lot of recent reporting on the endorsements and monetary support that Donald Trump’s campaign is receiving from tech executives and investors — many of them white men. This week’s “Tuesday Tech Drop” documented one aspect of that phenomenon, in which some influential figures in tech who previously donated to Democrats are now […]
Trump to court top CEOS in a private meeting weeks after his conviction
Former President Donald Trump will attend a private meeting with one of the most powerful business lobbying groups in Washington as he tries to craft an alliance with major corporate leaders. Joshua Bolten, the CEO of the Business Roundtable, confirmed in an email to members on Wednesday that Trump will be at the group’s plenary […]
Argentinian president to meet Silicon Valley CEOs in bid to court tech titans
Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, is set to meet with the leaders of some of the world’s largest tech companies in Silicon Valley this week. The far-right libertarian leader will hold private talks with Sundar Pichai of Google, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Tim Cook of Apple. Milei also met last month […]