ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 593.34 points or -0.97% to 60,815.95 • Shanghai decreased 3.862 points or -0.09% to 4,131.528 • Hang Seng decreased 287.55 points or -1.11% to 25,675.18 • ASX 200 decreased 125.50 points or -1.45% to 8,505.30 • SENSEX increased 77.05 points or 0.10% to 75,315.04 • Nifty50 increased 6.45 points or 0.03% to 23,649.95 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.0002 or -0.03% to 0.71522 • NZDUSD increased 0.00241 or 0.41% to 0.58631 • USDJPY increased 0.282 or 0.18%…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Stay consistent with your marketing to avoid drops in leads and revenue. Make conversion a priority — you could be missing opportunities. Get super organized with your follow-up flow to increase sales long-term. Global layoffs have been piling up. We’ve seen Amazon slash 16,000 corporate roles, UPS downsize 30,000 operational jobs and Nestlé cut 16,000 positions. But for most business owners, cutting staff should not be the first move when cash flow gets tight. That’s because revenue problems can often be marketing problems in disguise. Oftentimes, there are ways you…
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Higher education is under pressure from every direction. Shifts in finance and policy, high tuition costs, and a decline in public trust have forced colleges and universities to rethink how they prepare people for work. At the same time, employers face persistent talent shortages and widening skills gaps. These challenges have created momentum for a more practical, outcome-driven model built on deeper collaboration between educators and employers. When these partnerships are designed well, they can strengthen workforce infrastructure. They can also align education with labor market needs and expand career pathways. CLOSE THE MIDDLE SKILLS GAP Strong employer-educator partnerships produce…
Days after Spirit Airlines shut down in the middle of the night, a lawyer for the defunct budget carrier stood before a bankruptcy judge and apologized to the price-conscious customers who might struggle to find affordable flights in its absence.“We apologize most specifically for those Americans who may now be priced entirely out,” Spirit lawyer Marshall Huebner said in court, thanking all the passengers who relied on the airline during its 34-year run, many of whom, he said, “could not otherwise have afforded air travel.”Spirit’s May 3 demise is not the only curveball confronting people planning trips a week before…
It starts with Jason Sudeikis in the make-up trailer for what must be the latest season of Ted Lasso, where he’s asked if he’s heading back stateside for the World Cup. He says no, then for some weird reason, taps his script with his Visa card. Poof! The script is now a World Cup match ticket. Thus begins Sudeikis’ surreal trip home, as dramatized in Visa’s new World Cup commercial “Tap in.” The campaign uses a simple play on words—in football, a tap-in goal is the easiest there is—to illustrate the ease with which fans can use Visa in and…
Investors might soon get a closer look at the financial details behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rocket and satellite company, whose forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) is among the most-anticipated stock listings in years, could make its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) public as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg and other media outlets. Once its prospectus is public, anyone will be able to peruse closely guarded business metrics, such its historic revenue and profit, as well as SpaceX’s plans for future growth and its assessment of the broader marketplace in which it operates. The “risk…
AI may be attracting billions in venture capital, but money is not flowing to every founder with a chatbot demo and a slick deck. In fact, as AI makes building a great product faster and more accessible, founder behavior, judgment, and credibility become even more important. In a crowded market where every pitch claims “category-defining AI,” red flags can surface fast. Founders must recognize that most investors are not just underwriting your product. They are underwriting you as a person for the next seven to ten years. If they sense weak leadership, poor decision-making, or shaky ethics early on, the…
It’s graduation season and my email inbox is flooded with inquiries from students entering the workforce, looking for career advice. How do I land my dream job? What should I do at the company where I’ve been recently hired to get where I really want to be? How do I go from what I have to do to what I want to do? What I’ve gathered from these students is not much different from what we more seasoned professionals struggle with day in and day out. How do we square the incongruence between our duty—the thing we have to do…