Source: courtesy Chesapeake Energy Corp.Aubrey McClendon, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), is officially the former CEO of the company today. Last Friday the...
Chocolate prices closed just short of $3,200 per metric ton last Friday, after rising to a three-year high of $3,284 on Thursday. Hershey and Mars have raised candy prices due to commodity price...
Source: ThinkstockData from both China and the European Union showed that any post-recession slowdown will not turn into another dip. A few months ago, slowing PMI and EU economic numbers that...
Not many company boards admit when their CEO had a bad year and needs a cut in pay. The Coca-Cola (KO) board decreased chief Mahtar Kent’s total compensation to $18.8 million from $22.4 million in...
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that Hawaii is the state with the longest life expectancy.
Life expectancy is one of the main measures of a population’s overall health. With the exception of the last three years — when the U.S. life expectancy dropped largely because of spikes in...
A lucky few Starbucks Card holders will win a "Starbucks for Life" card, the latest in a line of promotions that the coffee firm has used to draw customers.
Source: ThinkstockThe United States is one of the world’s most prosperous economies, with a gross domestic product that exceeded that of any other country last year. However, a vibrant economy...
Humor—and a touch of jealousy—go a long way in a 30-second advertisement.
Glassdoor has come up with a list of 25 jobs that have a good "work-life balance," as its researchers see it.
Wells Fargo has downgraded its outlook for Kezar Life Sciences to Equal Weight.
The U.S. death rate rose last year for the first time in a decade. This led to the first drop in life expectancy since 1993. The typical American in 2015 can expect to live 78.8 years, down slightly...
Work/life balance is a relatively new concept. There was a time when Americans (mostly men decades ago) were supposed to work as many hours as their employers wanted and move from place to place when...