Negotiators working to strike a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages made progress over the weekend, according to a senior US official familiar with the talks in Cairo, where mediators discussed “final details” of a potential agreement including the names of prisoners that would…

By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue Next Avenue readers know that the U.S. workforce is aging. The ranks of workers 65 years and older has nearly quadrupled to more than 11 million since the mid-1980s, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. The trend toward an older workforce will…

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Travelers, be warned: The federal government may revoke your passport if you ignore a big tax bill.Such punishments have become more frequent in recent years, experts said.Federal law requires the IRS and Treasury Department to notify the State Department if an American has a “seriously delinquent tax debt.”This is a…

Wall Street takes back-to-back weekly gains and an overbought market into an important week featuring Nvidia earnings and the latest reading on the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday gave the speech from Jackson Hole that investors wanted to hear. The S & P 500…

It’s been another rollercoaster of a year so far for the US housing market. Elevated mortgage rates and home prices have pushed prospective homebuyers to the sidelines. In addition, homeowners have been reluctant to put their properties on the market and risk potentially forfeiting the ultra-low mortgage rates they locked…

The 1-Minute Market Report August 25, 2024 In this brief market report, we look at the various asset classes, sectors, equity categories, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and stocks that moved the market higher and the market segments that defied the trend by moving lower. Identifying the pockets of strength and weakness…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.A member of a Reuters news team was killed and two others were injured after a Russian missile attack on their hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.Reuters said the…

‘We’re just tired of negative cynicism about America’: Booker on why Dems’ ‘joy’ message is resonating Democratic Sen. Cory Booker tells CNN’s Jake Tapper “it’s about time that our country start plugging into that hopefulness and that joyfulness.” Read the full article here

By Kelly K. James, Next Avenue During an interdepartmental Zoom meeting, a vice president asked for feedback about a video he’d produced, on a tight timeframe, to promote our company. On the video, one employee made a comment that made our company look bad. I thought she may have misspoken…