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On any given weekend night in North Hollywood, more than a dozen dancers at the Star Garden topless bar are protesting their employer's refusal to let them return to work by holding signs in front of the club. The dancers have been locked out for four-plus months after they petitioned the owners to reinstate two of their fired colleagues, improve security and safety measures, and recognize their right to form a worker union. In 2003, strippers at San Francisco's Lusty Lady successfully formed America's first unionized strip club — but since then, no other such effort has succeeded. That is to a great extent in view of fruitful unionization endeavors at behemoths like Starbucks (SBUX), Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL), which snatched features and motivated others to send off their own — i...

Alibaba shares fell after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Friday that it had added Alibaba to a watchlist of Chinese firms whose stock may be kicked off Wall Street if US auditors cannot inspect their financial statements. On Monday, Alibaba's US-listed shares plunged 11%, but later recovered some of those losses. Concern about Alibaba has been brewing for years. In late 2020, the company was swept up in a Chinese government crackdown on the country's booming technology sector. Alibaba's stock price has fallen nearly 70%, from its all-time high, and revenue growth has slowed for many tech companies as well as local Chinese firms. The crackdown and economic slowdown have wiped out billions of dollars from their market cap. The Securities and Exchange Commission ca...

Supply chains are still a snarled mess, disrupting deliveries of goods to businesses and feeding the worldwide surge in inflation. The good news: There are some indications that the situation is beginning to get better. The bad news: Huge risks—from another spike in coronavirus cases to labor disputes involving US rail workers—make it difficult to assume much confidence, clouding the outlook for the global economy. The flow of goods has mostly recovered from the initial shock of the war in Ukraine, according to Konstantin Krebs, managing partner at Capstan Capital. "Containers are coming back onstream, and you can feel that," Krebs said. The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York declined between April and June, though it remains "at historically h...

China's economy failed to reach its quarterly growth rate of 6% in over two years, before the effects of an ongoing nationwide lockdown weakened the country's economy. Gross domestic product in the world's second-largest economy expanded by just 0.4 percent during the quarter that ended on June 30, 2019, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). China's economy grew slower than expected in the second quarter of 2021, with its Gross Domestic Product up 4.8% from the same time a year ago. That was sharply lower than the 4.8% increase it registered in the previous quarter and far below the 1% growth estimated by economists in a Reuters poll. On a quarterly basis, GDP shrank 2.6%. It was the weakest performance since the first quarter of 2020, when China's economy came to a nea...

Bill Gates is transferring $20 billion of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is ramping up its spending in the face of global challenges, including the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world's largest philanthropies, plans to increase its annual payouts by 50% over pre-pandemic levels. The foundation is focused on charitable giving that aims to improve global health, gender equality, and education. The Microsoft co-founder and his ex-wife have both pledged to donate the vast majority of their wealth to the foundation they established together 20 years ago as well as other philanthropic endeavors. The couple announced their divorce in May 2021, saying they would work together as co-chairs under a two-year ...

The still-strong economy has yet to shake off the effects of recession fears, though investors and the Federal Reserve will be closely reading the details of Friday’s job numbers for any indications that a recession is developing. The month to month government work depiction from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is supposed to show proceeded with strength - - more modest, yet at the same time critical, work gains of around 272,700 and a joblessness rate holding at 3.6%, as per gauges from Refinitiv. The report is coming closely following a hodgepodge of late work information: The most recent Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, delivered on Wednesday, displayed there were 11.3 million employment opportunities in May, or 1.9 situations for each occupation searcher, and generally low...

At Monday's talks, the United States and China examined large challenges facing the global economy amid growing speculation that some Trump-era tariffs might be cancelled in order to minimize inflation and encourage growth. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Vice Premier Liu He of the People's Republic of China had a "substantive conversation" over the phone, according to a pledge by the US Treasury. The reactions of each country arrested by the investigations have been seen as "candid" and as Business Insider and The Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal report that the Biden administration may lift some tariffs previously imposed on Chinese goods as soon as this week. The Chinese readout noticed that the trade was "helpful" and "sober minded." It added that the different sides ...

Plans to create a media company for former President Donald Trump have appeared to run into another snag. Digital World Acquisition Corp., the SPAC that agreed to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group, said in a regulatory filing Monday that its board members had received subpoenas from a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York related to due diligence on the deal. Portions of the unlimited free pass organization plunged almost 10% on the news Monday. The stock has now lost the greater part its worth this year, adding to questions about the consolidation going through. The Securities and Exchange Commission has proactively summoned Digital World itself mentioning comparative data. Computerized World likewise declared in the SEC documenting that one of i...

The pandemic provided a fresh source of purchasers for the Stock Market, and many original traders are now facing their first big downturn. Some Millennials and Gen Z-ers found themselves jobless during the Great Recession, yet flush with cash through stimulus programs and increased federal unemployment payments. The market crash was an easy entry point to investing. The casino was open and everyone was winning big. These new investors had less wiggle room when it came to losing money, but hey, they had never lived through a market crash or recession. Then the cryptocurrency boom came, contributing to rising prices, shortages, inflation, and interest rates before a period of chaos in politics ensued. The S&P 500 saw a decrease of approximately 13 percent from its previous high o...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says a financial storm is coming. Tesla's Elon Musk says he has a "downright terrible inclination" about a downturn. Organizations are downsizing their profit conjectures. Gracious, and we're amidst an energy and expansion emergency, and stocks have been playing with a bear market. Having a hopeless outlook on the economy is simple. What's more, it turns out most Americans do: Only 23% of the US public say financial circumstances are "OK, but not great" or better, a new CNN Poll directed by SSRS found. But those equivalent Americans continue to spend like insane — on the grounds that almost everybody has some work. We just landed another really strong positions report Friday: America added one more 390,000 positions in May. To place that in setting, th...