Companies are betting these employee benefits will help them in the ‘Great Reshuffle’

Paul Bradbury | OJO Images | Getty Images Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs and rethinking what they want when it comes to work and work-life balance. Companies are responding, meeting their employees’ needs in areas such as remote work, flexible hours, four-day workweeks, compensation and more. This story is part of a series…

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: KB Home, Spotify, Nikola and others

In this article FDS NKLA GME DRI SPOT KBH Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Darden Restaurants (DRI) – The parent of Olive Garden and other restaurant chains reported quarterly earnings of $1.93 per share, missing the $2.10 consensus estimate, with revenue and comparable-store sales also below analyst forecasts. Darden said the…

Here’s how Impactive Capital could apply ESG ideas at student lender SLM

SeventyFour | iStock | Getty Images Company: SLM Corp. (SLM) Business: SLM originates and services private education loans to students and their families to finance the cost of their education in the United States. It also offers retail deposit accounts, including certificates of deposit, money market deposit accounts, and high-yield savings accounts. In addition, it…

How to avoid a tax filing rejection if last year’s return is still pending

Drakula & Co. | Moment | Getty Images The IRS is backlogged and still sifting through tens of millions of pending returns, including many of last year’s filings. If your 2020 return is part of the pileup, there’s a special step for your 2021 electronic filing. The agency processed more than 61.9 million returns as…

With Russian sanctions, small companies may be in for a big surprise

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on developments in Ukraine and Russia, and announces sanctions against Russia, from the East Room of the White House February 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Over 400 multinational corporations have pulled out of Russia as a result of its invasion of Ukraine. It’s not only…

Constellation Energy is a safe buy among nuclear energy stocks, Jim Cramer says

Constellation Energy is a safety pick among nuclear energy stocks whose time to shine on Wall Street has finally come, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. “When the [Federal Reserve’s] tightening aggressively, hedge funds love to hide in defensive stocks like the utilities. Constellation Energy, it’s the perfect mantra: It’s a real company with a real…

BlackRock’s Larry Fink, who oversees $10 trillion, says Russia-Ukraine war is ending globalization

Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday, March 7, 2019. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg via Getty Images Larry Fink, the CEO and chairman of the world’s biggest asset manager BlackRock, said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the world order that had been in place since the end of…

Obama’s former Education secretary is calling on Biden to cancel student debt

John King. Katherine Frey | The Washington Post | Getty Images It was only after John King left office as education secretary under then-President Barack Obama that he finished off paying his own student loans. “I have spent a lot of my adult life paying it down,” said King, who studied government at Harvard and…

JetBlue urges flight attendants to accept assignments as it races to hire 700 people by summer

JetBlue planes at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Leslie Josephs | CNBC JetBlue Airways on Friday urged patience from its flight attendants as it races to hire hundreds of new employees before what it expects to be a monster travel season this spring and summer. “Please do not refuse an assignment you are…

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Bed Bath & Beyond, Nio, Joby Aviation, Teva & more

In this article DIDI PDD 9618-HK BABA FTNT HNST TEVA-IL JOBY 9866-HK BBBY A person enters a Bed Bath & Beyond store in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Friday. Bed Bath & Beyond – Shares of the home…

57% of U.S. households paid no federal income tax last year as Covid took a toll, study says

More than half of American households paid no federal income tax last year due to Covid-relief funds, tax credits and stimulus, according to a new report. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 57% of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes for 2021, up substantially from the 44% before the pandemic. Howard Gleckman, senior…