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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (left) is at loggerheads with Elon Musk over the Tesla CEO’s proposed $44 billion takeover.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Andrew Kelly/Reuters Twitter CFO Ned Segal warned employees Friday their bonuses could be half the maximum, per The NYT. Segal said the company’s bonus pool was at 50% of where it could be if financial targets were being hit, per The NYT. Twitter employees’ bonuses are tied to the company’s financial performance, which has declined of late. Twitter told… Source link

The news on Thursday that gross domestic product (GDP) contracted for two straight quarters intensified fears the U.S. is entering a recession. Earlier this week, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli suggested the country has indeed fallen into a recession — albeit an unusual one. In a wide-ranging interview for Yahoo Finance’s “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” Nardelli contended that the U.S. is still experiencing a downturn even though consumer spending has remained relatively high. “I’ve said… Source link

Famed investor Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B), the sprawling investment conglomerate, differs from the typical conglomerates that have earned terrible reputations. “Berkshire is often labeled a conglomerate, a negative term applied to holding companies that own a hodge-podge of unrelated businesses. And, yes, that describes Berkshire – but only in part,” Buffett wrote in his widely-read annual letter. The 90-year-old investor pointed out that historically… Source link

By any measure, Ark Invest is having a spectacular run. With tens of billions of dollars flowing into her thematic ETFs and returns that easily surpassed 100% last year, Cathie Wood has gone from being a relatively unknown investor to one of the world’s best known money managers. Ark even took the mantle for largest active ETF from JP Morgan last year. But don’t call her company a behemoth. “The word ‘behemoth.’ We are like a startup still and we still have that feel, and I never… Source link