© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A British Airways Boeing 747 is seen at the Heathrow Airport in London LONDON (Reuters) – British Airways faces strike action over its plans to cut jobs, pay and conditions, the BBC reported on Tuesday, piling more pressure on the airline which has been hardRead More →
Reuters. Airbus logo at the entrance to the Airbus facilities in Bouguenais TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – Workers at Airbus (PA:) began a brief strike Wednesday to protest plans to cut 15,000 jobs in response to the coronavirus crisis, which has reduced demand for jets as airlines face a dropRead More →
© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – The Nasdaq surged Friday after hitting an intraday all-time high, as unexpected job gains raised hopes for an economic comeback and prompted investors to raise their bets on big tech. The surged 2.25% to a record high intraday, closing just below its previous all-timeRead More →
Looking for a six-figure job that makes you happy in 2020, but is also increasing in demand? Front-end engineers had an average overall job satisfaction score of 3.9 on Glassdoor, making theirs the No. 1 profession for 2020 in terms of job satisfaction, salary and job openings, according to aRead More →
iStock Orthodontists garner high pay and may have low stress. Sink your teeth into this. On Tuesday, U.S. News released its list of the best jobs for 2020, and MarketWatch asked the publication to share data on which jobs offered the best pay (six figures or more) for the leastRead More →
Getty Images The jobs environment is getting rosier, at least judging by the latest jobs figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Can you have a job with high satisfaction that also pays six figures? What about first-time job hunters? The answer to both questions is, “Yes.” If you chooseRead More →
If you think the worst is over for Boeing since the board jettisoned the CEO, think again. Logically, you don’t drop the person in charge when progress is being made. Rather, you let them go when it becomes clear they are part of the problem, not the solution. Now thatRead More →
Happy Monday, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance The hottest housing markets of 2020 are far from the coasts Home buyers next year are expected to flock to smaller, more affordable cities, according to Realtor.com. My stepdaughter’s mother stole her identity. She leased an apartment and took outRead More →
Call it hire power. On Tuesday, career and job site LinkedIn released its annual “Emerging Jobs” list, which identifies the roles that have seen the largest rate of hiring growth from 2015 through this year. No. 1 on the list: Artificial Intelligence Specialist — typically an engineer, researcher or otherRead More →
MILAN (Reuters) – The former chief financial officer of Telecom Italia (MI:) and a former executive at bank UniCredit are the top candidates to become chief executive of troubled bank Carige (MI:), two sources close to the matter said on Wednesday. Carige is in the process of being rescued byRead More →
Getty Images The jobs environment is getting rosier, at least judging by the latest jobs figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Can you have a job with high satisfaction that also pays six figures? What about first-time job hunters? The answer to both questions is, “Yes.” If you chooseRead More →
Congratulations. You just got that promotion you’ve been working toward. You are a vice president or a director or an executive vice president or a senior vice president or the chief something or other. It is well-earned recognition of a great career. Enjoy it. Oh, and get ready to beRead More →
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: SEAT President and CEO Luca de Meo poses during an interview at the SEAT car factory in Martorell 2/2 MADRID (Reuters) – French carmaker Renault (PA:) has offered the chairman of Volkswagen’s (DE:) SEAT brand, Luca de Meo, the job of chief executive, Spanish newspaperRead More →
By Andrew Galbraith SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Asian shares rose to 14-week highs on Monday as growing optimism over U.S.-China trade talks and upbeat U.S. job data boosted global investors’ appetite for riskier assets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan () was up 0.2% in early trade, having earlierRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Deutsche Bank is pictured on a company’s office in London (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank AG (DE:) said it is considering substantial cuts to the unit that trades interest-rate securities, a division that survived a large-scale pullback as part of the lender’s sweeping revampRead More →
The U.S. job market is still strong, but some cities appear to have more pep than others. The top three cities for job growth are Boston (up 8.4% year over year in September with 152,683 open jobs), Philadelphia (up 6.4% over the same period with 112,692 open jobs) and AtlantaRead More →
© Reuters. A man walks out of the headquarters of LG Display in Seoul SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd (KS:) on Tuesday announced a voluntary redundancy program for its domestic production line employees amid mounting financial losses. News of the possible job cuts came a dayRead More →
Happy Monday, MarketWatchers! Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance 45% of workers break this office taboo to boost their salary This survey by staffing firm Robert Half found that nearly half of employees believe they are underpaid. The ‘best job in America’ pays over $108,000 a year — andRead More →
Getty Images/iStockphoto (Photomontage: Terrence Horan) This analysis is based on data from EMSI, a labor-market research firm, and focuses on 774 occupations classified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The economy had about 501,000 fewer jobs as of March 2019 than the Bureau of Labor Statistics initially calculated in itsRead More →
One college major offers smooth sailing above all others for students seeking a secure, well-paying job. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering is the most valuable major, according to ranking a ranking of 162 college majors released Monday by personal-finance site Bankrate.com. Students majoring in the field learn how to designRead More →
Want to get ahead? Most people want a job that allows them to advance, learn new skills and earn more money. It’s the $112,000 question: How can you have both? Is there a job out there that gives you a six-figure income, and all of that too? As unemployment hoversRead More →
The recent spate of bankruptcies in corporate America is taking its toll. In the first seven months of the year, U.S.-based companies announced 42,937 job cuts due to bankruptcy, up 40% on the same period last year and nearly 20% higher than all bankruptcy-related job losses last year, a reportRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I am considering going back to court to reduce the maintenance that I have to pay to my ex-wife (we had a 25-year marriage). We have three children together, and after the divorce I stayed in the home and my children stayed with me. I have been theRead More →
By Paulina Duran and Sumeet Chatterjee SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Whole teams in Deutsche Bank’s (DE:) Asian operations were told their positions were gone on Monday, as the lender began axing 18,000 jobs globally in one of the biggest overhauls to an investment bank since the aftermath of the financialRead More →
April’s jobs report showed it’s been decades since the unemployment rate was this low, so scoring a new job is practically a lay-up, right? Wrong. Sure, the economy exceeded expectations by tacking on 263,000 new jobs in April, but job growth wasn’t uniform. Growth for construction jobs and the whiteRead More →
