Third-quarter earnings are set to ramp further this week, after an auspicious start to the reporting season saw many of Wall Street’s biggest bank beat consensus expectations, with new reads on the housing market also in focus. Big banks from JPMorgan Chase (JPM) to Goldman Sachs (GS) kicked off the Q3 earnings season with considerable momentum, helping fuel investor optimism that profits held up more strongly than expected. Yet rising input prices, labor costs and supply chain disruptions… Source link

Suze Orman: Make these 5 moves to stay out of the poorhouse in retirement Everyone hopes that, after decades of hard work, they’ll retire rich enough to spend decades more enjoying the fruits of their labor. But if you ask financial guru Suze Orman, the average American is nowhere near ready. Their savings won’t last decades — they’ll last about three years. Research by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found the median savings in this country is just $144,000. That might sound… Source link

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Meet her now and you might find it hard to believe that, less than 10 years ago, 38 year-old Jessica McCabe was at the end of her rope: divorced, broke, living at home with her mother, with no viable job prospects in sight. “My career was going nowhere,” she said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “And I went, ‘You know what, let me figure this out.’” Her first step was to look hard at the condition she had been struggling with for as long as she could remember: attention deficit… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American 

Hardware season is heading for a dramatic finale next week, with three events from three major companies, three days in a row. Apple, Google and Samsung (in that order) are all hosting big events next week, getting their last big announcements (hopefully) out of the way ahead of the upcoming holiday season. That means your friendly neighborhood hardware editor — and much of the TechCrunch staff — is set to be busy for the next few weeks, writing about and reviewing all manner of… Source link

Chrome’s 2.6 billion users have faced an increased number of security threats in recent months, but now arguably the biggest warning has been issued concerning Google itself. And it might just make you want to quit Chrome.  Through Chrome, it is claimed Google now has the power to determine how the web functions LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Confirms Chrome’s 12th & 13th Zero-Day Hacks In 2021By Gordon Kelly In an explosive editorial, Source link

The area in and around Sunflower County, Mississippi has much poverty and schools that have been given low grades. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Inequality in this country, which should be a bipartisan issue, takes many forms. There is inequality of gender, age, education, and of course, along racial and ethnic backgrounds. Increasingly, though, I’ve been considering another form that inequality takes, that being geography. More and more it seems we are divided… Source link

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We’re just a few days away from Google’s October 19th launch event for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, but if you want an early look at what to expect, you might want to check out this big thread of leaked images from prolific leaker Evan Blass. The thread includes what appear to be official renders of both phones, images of cases, and some photos of people using the phones — and it’s that last category of images that were the most interesting to me. Ever since early rumored renders… Source link