Tag: Corporate

I’m 40 with two school-age kids. I want to leave my corporate job and live off the interest from my $500,000 investments. Is this a wise move?

“I am considering moving the $500,000 into a brokerage account and living off the monthly interest earnings for the next five years.” – MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Dear MarketWatch, I am 40 years old, married, with two school-age kids. We have $500,000 in a 6-month CD earning 5%, which is approximately $2,000 per month. I am […]

Corporate IT spending isn’t reflecting the AI boom: Morning Brief

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Everyone is so gaga for AI these days that whenever I encounter skepticism, it piques my interest. That’s why Guggenheim’s latest note on IT spending caught my eye. Lead analyst John DiFucci calls […]

Maddow debunks Trump corporate support myth

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday debunked claims that large corporations and their executive are staunch supporters — financially and otherwise — of Donald Trump, a line the MAGA campaign has been pushing in the weeks ahead of the fast-approaching presidential debate between Trump and President Joe Biden. Heading into the debate, she began, the press has […]

Trump, Biden aide woo corporate America executives

By Gram Slattery, David Shepardson and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Jeff Zients, U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff, on Thursday met with top American business leaders in Washington as they seek to curry favor with corporate America months ahead of elections, two sources said. Trump […]

The Biden administration is targeting corporate giants in a ‘deliberate’ antitrust push

Joe Biden’s administration is going after big corporations with antitrust lawsuits. It’s an aggressive approach that makes Biden stand out compared to his predecessors. High-profile cases include Live Nation, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, as well as non-tech companies. President Joe Biden is really leaning into his pro-labor image. The Biden administration has launched investigations and […]