Business & Finance
Amber Garrett
Editor, Writer
United States
Senior-level editor with 15 years of digital editorial experience in business, finance, lifestyle, entertainment, news, and opinion.
United States
Senior-level editor with 15 years of digital editorial experience in business, finance, lifestyle, entertainment, news, and opinion.
Business & Finance
Perhaps the most time-honored tradition of Wall Street is the ringing of the New York Stock Exchange opening bell, a ceremony that signals another day of trading is about to begin. There are a some rules about who gets to ring the NYSE bell, and who isn't eligible.
Despite warnings from some financial advisers that we are headed into a recession, unemployment - one of the key indicators of a recession - remains low. The most recently available data from May 2022 indicates the current unemployment rate is 3.6 percent, close to the lowest it has been in 20 years.
Since it was founded in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a simple way for people to stay updated on their friends to an integral part of how information spreads, particularly for news organizations. Read on for the full history of the social media company, from Jack Dorsey's brainchild at a now-defunct podcasting company to its recent saga involving billionaire Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid.
Few explorers have taken the 12,500-foot descent in the North Atlantic to see the wreckage of the RMS Titanic up close and personal. So far, the privilege has belonged mostly to scientists, marine archaeologists, and filmmaker James Cameron, but through Stockton Rush's company OceanGate Expeditions, citizens with the means to do so can join an expedition as a "mission specialist."
Like many tech giants, Snap had fairly humble beginnings. The Snapchat app, formerly known as Picaboo, launched July 8, 2011, in the Santa Monica living room of a house belonging to now CEO Evan Spiegel 's dad. Eleven years later, the $4 billion social media company employs more than 5,000 and boasts more than 300 million active users.
Like many of the tech giants that fuel much of our daily life, Google's origin story started at Stanford University in Northern California, where a couple of Ph.D. students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built a search engine.
Lifestyle
View as slideshow Restaurants Looking for the best Bloody Mary around? We scoured the country for the biggest, prettiest and most outlandish Bloody Marys. Atchafalaya New Orleans, Louisiana NOLA's best brunch spot naturally happens to house the Big Easy's favorite Bloody Mary bar, with three house-made bases, an impressive array of garnishes and at least a dozen hot sauces.
Instant Pot is obviously king when it comes to pressure-cooking, but America's favorite slow-cooker, Crock Pot, has entered the race with its own multi cooker. How do the two units compare?
A British-style afternoon tea may sound like a posh affair, but it is neither difficult nor expensive to host a tea party fit for a queen, right in your own living room. Check out our top tea party ideas. View as slideshow Decide on a theme Are you thinking Queen of Hearts of Queen Elizabeth?
Not to toot my own horn, but I'm a pretty excellent home cook. My husband Blaine, on the other hand, is... less comfortable in the kitchen. When asked to stray from the recipes he knows, there's usually a lot of expletives and crashing around at dinner time.