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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.
