Dear Quentin, I’m due to retire in two months and I have already moved to my new home in the sun. I have not sold my apartment in a major US metropolitan area on the east coast, as I wanted to see how I settled into my new life. It’s a quiet, but beautiful city […]
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Alexander Skarsgard Selling His Place in NYC for $2.6M “The Northman” star Alexander Skarsgard is placing his East Village apartment on the market for $2.6 million, according to Architectural Digest. Read More Could we ever really get a 4-day work week in the US? Almost 80% of employees […]
Remember when Matt Damon told you, “Fortune favors the brave”? Well, Twitter TWTR, -2.19% users do, and many of them are bringing up the viral Crypto.com ad, while prices for cryptocurrency like bitcoin BTCUSD, +1.26% and ether ETHUSD, -4.69% are slumping, and crypto exchange platforms like Coinbase COIN, +8.90% are losing billions in market cap. […]
You “Heard” wrong. Snapchat has dispelled a popular social media rumor that its viral, new crying face filter is based on actress Amber Heard weeping in court. The social media platform cleared the air in a statement to TMZ. For the digitally uninitiated, the filter is essentially an augmented-reality lens that you superimpose over people’s […]
The wheeled variant of boogie fever is still going around. Yet another roller skating rink is coming to NYC. On the heels of JFK Airport’s TWA Hotel reopening its Roll-A-Rama venue and Rockefeller Center swapping its blades for wheels at the new Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace, sales have launched for Central Park’s new DiscOasis, with […]
Labor costs are driving up inflation. But will inflation also drive more people back to the workforce? The annual rate of inflation slowed to 8.3% in April from 8.5% the previous month, helped by a fall in gasoline prices, but consumers still face rapidly rising costs. The March reading was the highest since 1981. The […]
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Everything you need to know to get your yard ready for summer This week we caught up with Jeff Keiter, our resident landscape architecture guru, who previously chatted with us about winter trends for your yard. Today we are talking about spring gardening, the best tools and the […]
Over the weekend, Miami hosted the inaugural Formula One Miami Grand Prix — a sport whose luxury branding has made it synonymous with glamor, superyachts and European royalty. The city spent much of the last year building its 5.41-km (about 3.4-mile) track and touting the over-the-top viewing experiences at every turn. There was a beach […]
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. The 10 most popular cities that Americans moved to last year — and four are in this one state Here’s a hint: No New York or California cities made the Penske list of ’10 Moving Destinations for 2021,’ but plenty of Southern cities did. Read More ‘Open discussion […]
Citizens Financial Group Inc. launched its Citizens Pay iPhone upgrade plan in 2015 as an early form of the buy-now-pay-later concept that’s in vogue in the payments space. The idea was to take the Citizens CFG, -0.96% brand as a credit provider and combine it with Apple’s AAPL, +1.61% iPhone to help customers avoid waiting […]