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What it takes to lead through volatility and uncertainty

Many of the lessons learned about resiliency during the pandemic can be applied to current geopolitical events. More than 50% of the physical...

Oil prices jump and Dow plummets 1.8% after Israel’s attack on Iran stokes fears of wider war thumbnail
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Oil prices jump and Dow plummets 1.8% after Israel’s attack on Iran stokes fears of wider war

Defense contractors rallied while fuel-dependent businesses fell. NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices leapt and stocks plunged Friday on worries that escalating violence...

Israel hit by retaliatory strikes as UN nuclear chief says key Iranian enrichment facility was heavily damaged thumbnail
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Israel hit by retaliatory strikes as UN nuclear chief says key Iranian enrichment facility was heavily damaged

U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground section of the Natanz facility was destroyed. Israel launched blistering attacks on the...

Hong Kong bets the future on a vast tech zone by China’s border thumbnail
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Hong Kong bets the future on a vast tech zone by China’s border

It’s called “Northern Metropolis,” yet, for now, it’s anything but. In a village on Hong Kong’s outskirts, Wong Chin Ming inspects zucchini, watermelons,...

Gen Z is facing a job&market bloodbath—but JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says employers are still chasing students who studied these fields thumbnail
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Gen Z is facing a job&market bloodbath—but JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says employers are still chasing students who studied these fields

The billionaire JPMorgan Chase CEO isn’t wrong about the value of studying computer science—research shows that it can increase earnings by 8%. Despite...

The Strait of Hormuz is a critical choke point for global energy markets, but there are ways to get around it thumbnail
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The Strait of Hormuz is a critical choke point for global energy markets, but there are ways to get around it

About 20 million barrels of oil a day flow through the Strait of Hormuz, or the equivalent of 20% of global petroleum liquids...

Markets edge higher Monday after Iran fires missiles at U.S. base in Qatar thumbnail
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Markets edge higher Monday after Iran fires missiles at U.S. base in Qatar

“Historical precedent of markets selling off initially, only to recover and make new highs, has led investors to be a bit more level-headed...

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Trump announces phased&in ceasefire between Iran and Israel

The ceasefire would start with Iran and then joined by Israel 12 hours later, with Trump saying the respective sides would “remain PEACEFUL...

Tentative ceasefire between Israel and Iran may have just staved off potential ‘stagflationary shock’ akin to Russia’s Ukraine invasion thumbnail
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Tentative ceasefire between Israel and Iran may have just staved off potential ‘stagflationary shock’ akin to Russia’s Ukraine invasion

A 10% to 20% U.S. market correction could result if the waterway closed—but the move would hurt Iran more than its trade partners,...

‘Big Short’ investor warns the precarious tariff environment reminds him of WWI—and a trade war would send the U.S. into a recession thumbnail
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‘Big Short’ investor warns the precarious tariff environment reminds him of WWI—and a trade war would send the U.S. into a recession

“The tariffs and the potential for a trade war, I think, is really the only risk to the market right now,” Steve Eisman...