Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. CEO David Zaslav earned $49.7 million in 2023.Zaslav’s compensation increased despite actors’ and writers’ strikes, topping his 2022 earnings.Warner Bros. reported losses for the year despite Zaslav’s increased compensation. In a year when thousands of writers and actors were fighting for…
What Happened: Shares of leading designer of graphics chips Nvidia (NASDAQ:) fell 10% in the afternoon session after major indices declined with the Nasdaq down 2.1% while the S&P 500 fell by 0.9%. Netflix (NASDAQ:) reported mixed results to kick off the new earnings season. The video-streaming giant provided underwhelming…
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that cow-to-cow transmission is a factor in the spread of bird flu in dairy herds, but it still does not know exactly how the virus is being moved around. Farmers and veterinarians have been waiting for…
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The largest and final cohort of the baby boom generation — 30.4 million Americans — will turn 65 by 2030.And more than half of that group will rely primarily on Social Security for income, according to new research from the Alliance for Lifetime Income.When to claim Social Security retirement benefits…
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View MoreDemocrats are building a significant financial edge in the battle for the US House of Representatives, outraising their GOP counterparts and placing big fall ad reservations as Republicans grapple with the fallout of ongoing leadership battles. House Democrats’ official campaign committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, announced this week that it hauled in a record-breaking $45.4 million during the first quarter of the year, outraising its Republican counterpart, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which brought in $33.4 million over the same period. The DCCC also touted a war chest of $71.1 million, while the NRCC said it had about $55.9 million in cash on…
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View MoreInvesting.com– The S&P 500 closed below the 5,000 level Friday, rounding off the week with its sixth-straight daily loss as a…
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