Interns Are Making Over $16,000 a Month as Wall Street Talent Wars Heat Up
By Paulina Cachero As top firms shell out millions in the battle for Wall Street’s best and brightest, even interns are seeing their compensation soar. […]
How to Get Promoted When You Work From Home. Workers Are Mastering the Art of the At-Home Promotion
By Alice Kantor For some, working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic was a boon to their careers. Better pay, better titles, better hours. And […]
Finurah Funding Friday: Pitch Competitions and Fellowships Can Position Your Business for Greatness; Plus Funding from Visa and the Kentucky Derby
Pitch competitions, grants, and accelerators are all significant ways for entrepreneurs to position their businesses for growth. In addition to financial support, these programs also […]
‘Wealth Disparity Has Gotten Wider’: State of Black America is Grim, National Urban League Reports
Civil rights organization the National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on April 12, and while its findings on such issues […]
NYC Won’t Open Any More Accounts With Wells Fargo. Banking Giant Has Too Many Racial Disparities, Says Big Apple.
Banking giant Wells Fargo has been embroiled in many discrimination lawsuits over the years, the most recent one in February for discriminatory lending practices. As […]
A Year of Inflation-Beating Yields With No Risk? Time May Be Running Short
By Charlie Wells Their returns are high, their risks almost nil. They perform best during bouts of inflation and to some investors, they may simply […]
An Elon Musk in the Making? Florida Teen Landed More Than $4M In Scholarship Offers. He’s Already Working on a Patent for an Invention to Help the Blind.
A Florida teenager has hit the academic jackpot, receiving more than $4 million in scholarship offers and 27 acceptance letters from some of the nation’s […]
U.S. Consumers Hang In There Despite Bigger Bite From Inflation
By Molly Smith It’s not all doom and gloom for the U.S. economy. Thursday’s reports of retail sales and consumer sentiment offered a glimmer of […]
Combining Community and Commerce: Why Customers Continue to Snap up $400 Hats from FlameKeepers Hat Club in Harlem
Hats are hot. The hat sales industry revenue is more than $2 billion a year, according to Statistic Brain. “Hats are certainly making a major […]
Tesla Racism Case Award Cut to $15 Million From $137 Million
By Malathi Nayak, Joel Rosenblatt and Dana Hull A federal judge cut to $15 million a staggering $137 million in damages awarded by a jury […]
U.S. Gas Hovers Near $7 as Cold Weather Strains Tight Supplies
By Dan Murtaugh U.S. natural gas futures extended gains to the highest level since January’s record short squeeze, after the U.S. government reported tighter-than-usual stockpiles […]
‘I Want Us to Take the Power of Web and NFTs Into the Arts’: Spike Lee Launches NFT Collection of His Iconic Film ‘She’s Gotta Have It’
Spike Lee is entering the non-fungible tokens game in the most nostalgic way possible. In a joint venture with The Visible Project, Lee will give fans […]
Stagflation Risk Has Investors Sinking Billions Into Hedges
By Greg Ritchie, Liz Capo McCormick and Ruth Carson It’s the next big market call that could enrich traders across Wall Street: The raging global […]
Why Beyoncé Chipped in to Keep Boogie Down Grind Hip-Hop Coffee Spot Up and Running In the South Bronx
Majora Carter is a different kind of entrepreneur and real estate developer. She brings businesses to blighted Black communities in hopes of revitalizing the area […]
Black and Hispanic U.S. Millionaires Own the Fewest Stocks, UBS Finds
By Jill R. Shah Black millionaires in the U.S., as well as those who are Hispanic and Latino, have a smaller-than-average allocation to equities and […]
Celebrities Can’t Promote Stocks. Can They Endorse NFTs?
By Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou Hollywood stars are making a swift march into the NFT universe as regulators struggle to oversee the space. Hundreds of celebrities from Madonna and […]
How Greenwood Became the Most Hyped Startup in Black America
By Brett Pulley and Jordyn Holman Over the past year-and-a-half 700,000 people have added their names to the waiting list of a financial startup named […]
Inflation Is Recasting Amercians’ Relationship With Money — and Each Other
By Claire Ballentine and Charlie Wells The steepest inflation in more than 40 years is rattling budgets across the U.S., fueling changes in spending habits and […]