We told you last week that former Warner Bros Global Marketing Chief Sue Kroll was bound to be named Amazon Studios’ new Head of Marketing. On Monday, the company confirmed the news. In her new role, Kroll will report directly to Amazon Studios’ Chief Jennifer Salke and oversee global marketing strategy and campaigns for the …
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The annual rate of consumer-price inflation in the eurozone increased to double digits in October, reaching a record and highlighting the challenges facing the European Central Bank after it signaled a coming slowdown in the pace of its rate increases. The broad measure of consumer prices has risen sharply since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and …
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The past week offered a tale of two markets, with gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average putting the blue-chip gauge on track for its best October on record while Big Tech heavyweights suffered a shellacking that had market veterans recalling the dot-com bust in the early 2000s. “You have a tug of war,” said …
The world’s largest oil companies continue to reap rewards from sustained high commodity prices as Exxon XOM 2.93% Mobile Corp. reported almost $20 billion in profit, its most lucrative quarter ever, while rival Chevron Corp. CVX 1.17% reported just a slight dip from the record haul it set in the previous quarter. Despite the hefty …
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It’s the end of what felt like another very choppy week in stocks. And yet the S&P 500 SPX, +0.34% is in line to start the final session only about 1% or so below last Friday’s close. Uncertainty is hobbling the bulls. Many traders seem minded. given that the S&P 500’s year-to-date drop of 23% …
This may surprise you: Wall Street analysts expect earnings for the S&P 500 to increase 8% during 2023, despite all the buzz about a possible recession as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy to quell inflation. Ken Laudan, a portfolio manager at Kornitzer Capital Management in Mission, Kan., isn’t buying it. He expects an “earnings …
Here’s a chart that speaks a thousand words about the state of the real estate market right now. The chart above, part of a new report by real-estate brokerage Redfin RDFN, -7.03% on the property market, reveals how home sellers are adjusting to the new normal of 7% mortgage rates. The chart says that 7.9% …
Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp. threw down Wednesday as the two chip makers released new gaming cards with the GPU leader targeting elite, high-performance gamers, while Intel sought to appeal to budget gamers looking for slightly better performance than Nvidia’s last generation of cards. On Wednesday, Nvidia’s NVDA, -0.74% flagship RTX 4090 gaming card went …
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Mark Zuckerberg is targeting corporate users with Meta Platforms Inc.’s expensive new virtual-reality headset, but even if the Meta Quest Pro did appeal to remote workers, the timing could not be worse. In a keynote address at Meta’s META, -0.81% annual developer conference Tuesday, Zuckerberg unveiled the latest VR headset at a whopping price tag …
Photo: Tada Images (Shutterstock) Recently I received two security alerts from Microsoft warning me someone had attempted to log into my account. The emails offered me links to review the activity and reset my password, as well as a link to learn about ways to make my account more secure. I’ll be honest, the emails …
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