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Speed, ease, and securing exactly the right candidate for the right role are three priorities that all recruiters can agree on.Achieving this is often easier said than done, but digitally-focused recruiters who choose to post a job online — and know specifically where to post jobs — can secure success fast.This is increasingly important because today’s recruitment process is more digital than ever. In a recent report, nearly 60% of job seekers say they found their current job online.1So, when it comes to finding the right talent for new roles, the smartest recruiters are the ones who realize the fastest…

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says President Donald Trump is all business as the Department of Justice weighs the streaming giant’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros.”The only thing we talk about is how to keep jobs in America, how to keep the production industry healthy,” Sarandos said of his talks with Trump during an appearance on Puck’s “The Town” podcast.Trump “wants to know what happened in California,” Sarandos said in the podcast episode, referencing the state’s film and TV production decline.Hollywood has increasingly gone outside Los Angeles to make movies and shows in recent years, lured by tax credits in places…

Walmart’s former side hustle is getting serious.The retail giant reported that 2025 was its first full year of profitability in its e-commerce operations, which started — as most ventures do — needing time and money to get rolling. “We’ve far surpassed the breakeven level,” CFO John David Rainey said of the e-commerce business in the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Thursday. “The momentum is only upward from here.”The bet is paying off thanks in large part to the addition of higher-income shoppers, who Walmart said are attracted to its combination of low prices and increasing convenience.”The majority of our share…

Kalshi may be good for more than just making a quick buck.A new research paper published by a trio of Federal Reserve economists suggests that the prediction market platform is a useful method for measuring macroeconomic expectations — and it may even be better than some traditional methods.”Our results suggest that Kalshi markets provide a high-frequency, continuously updated, distributionally rich benchmark that is valuable to both researchers and policymakers,” the researchers wrote.The researchers found that Kalshi actually beat traditional methods for two different purposes.The first was on forecasting inflation. The researchers found that when it comes to headline consumer price…

Hollywood is in trouble.The streaming boom that fueled a ton of production in the last decade-plus is gone, and lots of the remaining work is going overseas. No one really knows how AI will affect the movie and TV business, but there’s lots of fear it won’t be good. And barring something truly surprising, Warner Bros., one of Hollywood’s most important movie and TV studios, is going to get swallowed up in the next year or so, which will mean even more consolidation.But don’t take it from me: Ask Janice Min, who has spent a couple decades enmeshed in Hollywood.…

As I stepped off a train in Florence into heat so brutal it felt like the city was actively trying to kill me, I wondered if I’d made the right decision.This was my first time in Italy, yet I’d already committed to leaving the US and calling it home. I’d dreamed of living in Europe ever since my semester abroad in college, but here I was — overstimulated, sweating, and on my way to move into an apartment I’d only seen through WhatsApp video calls.Conventional wisdom says you should visit a place before moving to it and that committing to…

Anciens Huang | Moment | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.As the world’s wealthiest pad their fortunes, they are spending more to run their private investment firms, according to a recent report by J. P. Morgan Private Bank.Family offices with at least $1 billion in assets spent an average of $6.6 million in annual operating costs, the bank’s survey found. The average cost has increased by $500,000 since JPMorgan’s previous family office poll…

The Internal Revenue Service handed out a hefty tax break to large corporations, ensuring that President Donald Trump’s lucrative research and development deduction doesn’t increase their tax bills under a Biden-era 15% minimum levy.Processing ContentThe agency issued interim guidance Wednesday allowing companies to claim a backlog of R&D deductions stretching back to 2022, while minimizing their exposure to the 15% tax Democrats established for large corporations under former President Joe Biden.The new guidance doesn’t necessarily mean companies can avoid triggering the corporate minimum tax if they claim the backlog of deductions, yet it does allow them to reduce their tax…

New Balance sales grew 19% last year to $9.2 billion as the legacy sneaker giant continued to outperform the global footwear market and take share from floundering competitors like Nike.The 120-year-old Boston-based footwear brand, which is private, exclusively shared its 2025 results with CNBC. In addition to the sharp 2025 growth, the retailer said it could reach its goal of $10 billion in annual revenue by the end of the year.”We’re competitive. No question about it. But we want to make sure that as we get there and surpass it, that the quality of our business is first and foremost,”…

President Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” could be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this week. Regardless of the ruling, there’s little comfort to be found for the furniture industry. Furniture importers are facing steep, and in some cases stacking, import duties after the industry was hit with higher tariffs on items such as couches, kitchen cabinets and vanities last fall under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act.While Trump’s country-specific “liberation day” tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and announced in April are under review by the nation’s highest court, the duties…