After signing a multiyear deal — reportedly worth more than $100 million — with SiriusXM earlier this year, “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper spread the wealth by buying her parents a house. In a Christmas episode of “Call Her Daddy,” Cooper revealed that her parents were moving from their home state of Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California after she and her husband, producer Matt Kaplan, surprised them with the purchase.”It makes me emotional thinking about it because when I started ‘Call Her Daddy,’ I had somewhat of a vision of what I hoped this would turn into,” Cooper says.”To be able…
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There are two ways to look at Chelsea not signing a front-of-shirt sponsorship deal before the start of the season.You could view it as a failure, with companies not wanting to fork out £45million-plus for the privilege of being in prime position on their kits following a disappointing Premier League campaign in 2023-24, buoyed by the narrative that the club’s owners, Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly, don’t know what they are doing.The alternate view, echoed within their home stadium Stamford Bridge, is that Chelsea rolled the dice and gambled on their sporting performance improving, therefore rendering it foolish to enter…
A drone view shows emergency specialists working at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan December 25, 2024. Azamat Sarsenbayev | ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin apologized to the president of Azerbaijan for the crash of the civilian airliner that killed 38 people, the Kremlin said Saturday, stopping short of admitting responsibility.”Vladimir Putin apologized for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace,” the Kremlin said.The airliner had “repeatedly attempted to land” at the Grozny airport, Putin told Ilham Aliyev, which at the time was being “attacked by Ukrainian combat drones.”Russian air defense systems “repelled these…
Whether you’re negotiating a pay raise, presenting ideas to your colleagues or convincing your friends to try out a new restaurant in your city, persuasion is an integral part of communication in your daily life.The most persuasive people are able to prove their point without seeming manipulative or ill-intended. They know how to make their voices heard.Here are three tactics they use to influence others, according to psychologists and executive coaches.1. They speak with convictionSometimes, being persuasive is more about how you say something than what you’re saying. You can make a big impact by making small changes in your…
Hill Street Studios | Getty ImagesKeith Harris, a 17-year-old high school senior at KIPP DC College Preparatory, has studied accounting, investing and budgeting, among other basic lessons, like his English, history and math curriculum.Harris is enrolled in his high school’s NAF Academy of Business, a rigorous three-year finance program with a work-based learning component. Because Harris, who lives with his aunt, received a full scholarship to college next fall, he’s also able to set some of his part-time earnings aside and invest those funds.”Through the program I developed a lot of skills, such as managing my finances and investing in stocks,”…
Dungeons and Dragons has come a long way since making its debut 50 years ago.After decades spent as the pinnacle of nerd culture, the popular tabletop game has broken into the mainstream thanks in part to the success of Netflix’s mega-hit show “Stranger Things” and the best-selling videogame “Baldur’s Gate 3.”Indeed, D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast has seen its annual revenue grow from $761 million in 2019 to $1.17 billion as of October 2024. The company estimates that 85 million people have played the game since it was first introduced in 1974 — a figure equivalent to the population…
Data centers powering artificial intelligence and cloud computing are pushing energy demand and production to new limits. Global electricity use could rise as much as 75% by 2050, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, with the tech industry’s AI ambitions driving much of the surge.Data centers powering AI and cloud computing could soon grow so large that they could use more electricity than entire cities.As leaders in the AI race push for further technological advancements and deployment, many are finding their energy needs increasingly at odds with their sustainability goals.”A new data center that needs the same amount of…
Yes, you read that headline right. There’s something unique happening between two of the largest exchange-traded funds tracking U.S. semiconductor stocks: One fund is sharply underperforming the other, despite several recent years of relatively in-line performance. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) is up about 42% in 2024, while the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) has lagged with a gain of 15%. That gap of more than 26 percentage points is the largest going back more than a decade, according to a CNBC analysis. The massive disparity in performance matters because it means the VanEck ETF is tracking for larger gains than…
Many Americans make New Year’s resolutions as the calendar winds down each year. And financial resolutions like paying down debt or saving more money are some of the most common goals people set year after year.Depending on how you define it, you may not be able to get rich in a single calendar year. But there are steps you can take to increase your wealth, regardless of where you’re starting. With that in mind, here are three investing tips from self-made millionaires on how to grow your wealth in the coming year, drawn from their personal experiences.1. Keep it simpleYou don’t…
Wall Street asset managers are betting on actively managed exchange-traded funds to help grow their revenue and protect their margins, but the space is shaping up differently than the traditional stock-picking business. ETFs have traditionally been associated with low-cost passive management, and the vast majority of money in the space is held by those vanilla funds. But through November, active ETFs had accounted for 27% of net inflows and 77% of new launches in 2024, according to JPMorgan Asset Management. Many industry experts point to a 2019 rule change from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as the start of…
