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Weight-loss Empire

January 26, 2024 | Eli Lilly’s rise is a quintessential American, capitalism success story: The pharmaceutical giant grew from a small laboratory in Indianapolis in 1876 to one of the world’s largest pharma companies

Hold Your Horses

January 25, 2024 | Competition in the EV industry is heating up, but Tesla is slowing down. And no, that’s not a reference to its Cybertrucks getting stuck in the snow.

The $3 Trillion Company

January 24, 2024 | Somewhere, Bill Gates is smiling. Microsoft’s remarkable run keeps going. The tech giant achieved the historic $3 trillion market valuation on Wednesday, more evidence of how the artificial intelligence boom has fueled its advance higher and higher.

Talk To Chuck

January 23, 2024 | Charles Schwab’s former marketing campaign stands as one of the most effective financial ad campaigns of all time. But those days are over. Schwab’s net income last year fell 29% from a year prior, and the stock has gotten punished.

On The Move

January 22, 2024 | American workers are getting antsy. About 85% of 1,000 U.S. professionals polled in a new LinkedIn survey say they’re considering changing jobs this year, up from 67% a year ago. About 90% of Gen Z workers — in their early and mid-20s — and 92% of millennials are considering a job change in 2024.

Coffee Powerhouse

January 21, 2024 | Two part-time baristas in Seattle meet at a dive bar, become best friends, move to Philadelphia, and open a one-off coffee shop in a run-down area of the city. That doesn’t sound like a path to a $900 million coffee brand, right?

New Beginnings

January 20, 2024 | Rates might be headed back down, but housing affordability isn’t getting any better.

The Great Inversion

January 19, 2024 | Tom Cruise may have been inverted in Top Gun, but the Treasury yield curve probably won’t be for much longer.a

Force Multiplier

January 18, 2024 | A program meant to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels is helping put cash in renewable energy companies’ pockets by selling tax breaks to corporate giants like JPMorgan.

The Tables Have Turned

July 26, 2024 | The extraordinary, “once-in-a-generation” job market that Americans have enjoyed — particularly 2020, 2021, and 2022 — has officially come to a close.

Billions Forgone

July 24, 2024 | Workers are missing out on big investment gains by inadvertently leaving their retirement savings in cash after switching jobs.

Bare Shelves

July 22, 2024 | Low interest rates have traditionally been widely viewed as beneficial for stocks — just ask small-cap fund managers lately. But their impact on the stock market is more complex.

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