A decade ago, I boarded a one-way flight from Houston to Madrid with a suitcase and a rough plan to teach English for a year. I was 35, and I knew I needed a change.As the daughter of Colombian and Iranian immigrants growing up in Texas, I never quite felt like I belonged anywhere. That changed when I moved to Spain in 2015. I’ve built a life here centered around community, freedom, and balance.Along the way, I figured out the logistics, visas, and mindset shifts it takes to start over abroad. Now, through my platform She Hit Refresh, I help…
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My week in San Francisco, where I attended Salesforce’s annual AI conference and visited with the CEOs of Starbucks, Broadcom, and many others, was filled with fresh insights about AI, stocks, and the market at large. Below are my top 10: Consider these takeaways to inform your investing decisions in the days and months ahead. 1. Salesforce’s AI platform is working — just not the way some think it is. The skepticism surrounding Salesforce’s Agentforce, its platform with agentics and virtual robots to augment your business, is growing thinner after CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote to kick off the company’s annual…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon during an executive order signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has agreed to cancel student debt under programs it had partially blocked, reopening a path to student loan forgiveness for millions of borrowers.The outcome is the result of an agreement reached on Friday between the U.S. Department of Education and the American Federation of Teachers, a union.In the agreement, the Trump administration said it will again process student loan forgiveness for…
Last month, J.D. Power released its annual North American Airport Satisfaction Study for 2025.Mega airports are defined as those with 33 million or more passengers per year. The study measured overall passenger satisfaction by examining their experiences across seven core dimensions in order of importance:Ease of travel through airportLevel of trust with airportTerminal facilitiesAirport staffDeparture/to airport experienceFood, beverage and retailArrival/from airport experienceThe 2025 study is based on 30,439 completed surveys from U.S. or Canadian residents who traveled through at least one U.S. or Canadian airport and covers both departure and arrival experiences (including connecting airports) during the past 30 days. The…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., Oct. 17, 2025.Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said Sunday he would slash U.S. funding to Colombia because the country’s leader “does nothing to stop” drug production, in what is the latest sign of friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America.In a social media post, Trump referred to Colombian President Gustavo Petro as “an illegal drug dealer” who is “low rated and very unpopular.” He warned that Petro “better close up”…
Palestinians transport an injured man following what, according to medics, was an Israeli strike, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 19, 2025.Mahmoud Issa | ReutersIsrael’s military said it struck multiple targets on Sunday in Gaza, using aircraft and artillery, after it said Hamas militants shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area still under Israeli control, the first major test of the ceasefire reached over a week ago.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held consultations with Israel’s security heads and directed the military to take “strong action” against any ceasefire violations, but did not threaten…
Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesMedicare open enrollment kicked off on Oct. 15, with one notable difference for beneficiaries who are considering updating their health insurance plans — the federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1.Updates related to Medicare open enrollment — which runs through Dec. 7 — will continue during the government shutdown, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Because the federal shutdown may affect timely access to information, Philip Moeller, author of “Get What’s Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs,” suggests holding off on finalizing coverage decisions for 2026 until…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025.Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence startup Anthropic is doing all it can to keep pace with larger rival OpenAI, which is spending money at a historic pace with backing from Microsoft and Nvidia. Of late, Anthropic has been facing an equally daunting antagonist: the U.S. government.David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, has been publicly criticizing Anthropic for what he’s called a campaign by the company to support “the Left’s vision of AI regulation.”After Anthropic…
As U.S.-China tensions escalate and overall market volatility rises, investment strategists expect Chinese stocks will hold up as the country doubles down on tech development. “For now I think as long as people’s sentiment on [the] U.S. is slightly positive, sentiment on China will continue to be positive,” said Liqian Ren, leader of quantitative investment at WisdomTree. She pointed out that the U.S. Federal Reserve easing interest rates supports both the U.S. and Chinese stock markets. In addition, rather than seeing Chinese stocks as broadly uninvestible, international investors are starting to realize that owning some of the stocks could be…
The third-quarter earnings season has gotten off to a strong start. Investors will look to this week’s batch of companies reporting to keep the momentum going. More than 80 S & P 500 companies are due to release results this week. Among them are Netflix , General Motors and Tesla . Those results will come after banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs posted strong quarterly figures. Overall, 84% of the S & P 500 stocks members that have so far reported have topped earnings expectations, according to FactSet. Check out CNBC Pro’s breakdown of what to expect from some…
