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• Saudi Arabia is using a new calender to lower wages

  08-10-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saudi Arabia has announced that salaries for government employees will no longer be calculated according to the Islamic calendar, but according to the Western Gregorian calendar.
  The change is expected to be resisted by religious conservatives and comes as part of huge cutbacks in government spending and subsidies.Until now, Saudi Arabia has calculated the pay for public servants according to the Hijri lunar calendar, in which a year is 11 days shorter than in the Western system. By switch
  
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• I used a tax ‘loophole’ to ride in a nearly empty Uber that the government treats like the subway

  08-10-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The mass transit I took to Brooklyn the other night came in the form of a gray Toyota minivan.
  It sure didn't feel like mass transit: My colleague and I filled the middle row, and for most of the rush-hour journey crawling over torn-up Greenwich Village streets and then coasting across the Manhattan Bridge, it was just the two of us with the driver and four empty seats.
  Comfortable, but hardly efficient.
  I was in an UberPool, the ride-hailing company's service that picks up passengers heading in
  
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• Here's where Hillary Clinton stands on energy issues

  08-10-2016 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Solving America's energy problems, like reducing dependence on foreign oil and moving the country to a lower-carbon economy, will be a major election issue and a top priority for the next president.
  Hillary Clinton's energy plan is thoughtful and detailed, to the level of addressing funding sources. Her campaign has placed a priority on investing in and incentivizing renewable-energy technology to help create jobs and transition the US to a lower-carbon economy.
  She mentioned boosting domes
  
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• Here's where Donald Trump stands on energy issues

  08-10-2016 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Solving America's energy problems, like reducing dependence on foreign oil and moving the country to a lower-carbon economy, will be a major election issue and a top priority for the next president.
  Donald Trump's energy plan, is short on specific details and spends a lot of time calling out "extremist" Clinton. Trump's plan is supremely focused on American "energy independence" at all costs, and he's fully supportive of deregulating fossil fuels. 
  For his part, Trump supports&nbs
  
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• Sears CEO thinks the company won't go belly up just yet

  08-10-2016 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was a time when Sears dominated the retail space in the United States.
  The company had a massively successful catalog and a number of house brands that had a reputation for quality. Sears may never have been a sexy or trendy place to shop, but it was a steady pillar of many communities, anchoring malls while giving middle-class people a reasonable place to shop.
  Those days, however, have long since passed. The company's catalog shut down in 1993, made irrelevant first by the growth of 
  
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• The trillion-dollar reason why Wall Street should take gender diversity more seriously (JPM, WMT, PFE, MRK, V, RDS.A, RDSA, GSK)

  08-10-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are plenty of reasons why companies and investors should take gender diversity seriously. 
  But if a quantitative reason based on stock-market returns is needed, Morgan Stanley has it.
  Strategists at the bank recently updated their study on 1,600 public companies around the world and found that the shares of public companies that are more gender diverse experience less volatility and outperform those that aren't. 
  The study found that:
  Among stocks that ra
  
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• What it’s like to work at Snapchat, one of the most secretive companies in tech

  08-10-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When a group of Snapchat employees got locked out of their building one Monday morning, they quickly realized their predicament was no accident.
  A top-secret Snapchat team had swooped in overnight and taken over the office, de-activating the keycards of the current tenants in the process. The secret newcomers eventually allowed their colleagues back into the building and partitioned the space, while a third group of Snapchat engineers that was scheduled to move into the same buil
  
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• Judi Patton: SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE / ACCOUNT MANAGER – Shopper Marketing agency

  08-10-2016 02:00
  
  £23-30k depending on experience:Judi Patton:
  SHOPPER AGENCY are recruiting a bright, confident, energetic and personable SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE or ACCOUNT MANAGER.
  London (Central), London (Greater)
  
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• Tesla stock had a rough week (TSLA)

  08-10-2016 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk is probably trying to figure out what he has do to get on Wall Street's good side.
  After Tesla reported an impressive third-quarter for vehicle deliveries — 24,500 vehicles, with another 5,500 in transit — on Sunday, shares moved higher.
  At one point, $215 was in sight.
  But by Friday's market close, the stock had dived around 9% from earlier trading-day peaks, finishing up at $196.61.
  The slide was intensified when Goldman Sachs downgraded Tesla and
  
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