Before she signed an offer for an internship at Deloitte accounting firm in Atlanta, Lucy Elizabeth Mostellar had to teach her prospective supervisors a lesson. “I told them I've got this thing coming up called Mardi Gras,” she said, laughing. As Mobile Carnival Association queen, Lucy is going to need
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Policy accommodation has helped the cost of servicing debt for companies in the S&P 500 fall to an all-time low of 3.5 percent of sales over the past 12 months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The decline from 7.4 percent in 2007 represents $320 billion in savings and contributed to a surge of
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The latest reckoning of the tab for the Oroville spillway crisis — the first update in many months — revealed an astonishing figure and proved how much the state has been trying to downplay the preventable disaster from the start. It almost provides a “we-told-you-so” moment. Lake Oroville's regular
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – South Australia's state premier Jay Weatherill announced a plan on Sunday to create a network of 50,000 home solar systems backed by Tesla Powerwall batteries, ahead of a state election in March.
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“When people are happy and confident, something wrong happens,” warned the private-equity billionaire David Rubenstein at a Bloomberg-sponsored forum at the World Economic Forum conference last month in Davos, Switzerland. If that “something wrong” happens with Trump in the White House,
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