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When Isaac Yuan started working in his uncle’s jewelry factory in Hong Kong two decades ago, gold cost around $400 per troy ounce.In October, the metal neared $4,400 an ounce. The 43-year-old, now cofounder of Eli J Fine Jewelry in Singapore, calls the latest surge the most dramatic he’s witnessed in the jewelry business.”Everybody is talking about it. The move from $3,000 to $4,000 per ounce was really quite crazy,” Yuan told Business Insider, referring to gold’s price gains since March.Gold’s epic rally this year has lifted the world’s favorite precious metal to record highs, leaving jewelers around the world…

Stéphanie Guillaume visited South Korea for the first time when she was 22. She spent 10 days there with two friends, and the moment she arrived in Seoul, the capital, it felt like home.When she returned to Lausanne, Switzerland, where she grew up, she told her mother that she wanted to live in South Korea one day.It wasn’t until a decade later, in 2022, that Guillaume finally turned her dream into reality. All it took was a single conversation with a friend, who had asked her what she was doing in Switzerland.”I was like, that’s a good question. I don’t…

The global AI market could reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, meaning companies like OpenAI and Microsoft stand to rake in hefty profits.Some people are already cashing in on the increasingly ubiquitous tech, including 17-year-old Samik Sidhu of Virginia. While running two businesses — an Etsy apparel shop and a for-profit networking community — in 2024, he began investing the profits from those ventures in stocks of tech companies.”Rather than having my money sit in an account, it was able to work for me,” Sidhu said.Sidhu earned $37,400 by selling graphic T-shirts and other items through his Etsy shop, while the…

Attendees listen as former President Obama joins former congresswoman and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger at a rally on Nov. 1 at Chartway Arena in Norfolk. Shaban Athuman/VPM News hide caption toggle caption Shaban Athuman/VPM News Several late-breaking surprises have shaken up what political watchers thought would be a quiet race in Virginia. The commonwealth’s gubernatorial race — one of just two held the year after presidential elections — is often seen as a temperature check on how voters feel about leaders in Washington. Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee and former congresswoman, has maintained a lead in polls since…

A multifamily property is a single building divided to house more than one family living separately — a duplex, for example, or a triplex or fourplex.Several real estate investors whom Business Insider has spoken with are prioritizing this type of property, particularly in 2025.”Prices and interest rates have essentially doubled in many markets in the last four or five years,” said Josh Lupo, who invests in multifamily properties in upstate New York with his wife, Ali. The couple achieved financial independence after paying off six figures in student loans, partly thanks to their real estate portfolio. “The properties that used…

The closest I ever got to breaking up with my now-wife was our last semester in college. We were high-school sweethearts who had maintained a healthy relationship despite being long-distance. She went to The Ohio State University, while I attended Miami University, two hours away.Before graduation, she had already lined up an engineering job, but it required frequent moves around the country.I was happy for her, but I was tired of long-distance and wanted to settle down. I also knew that following her to her various job locations would make it hard for me to have my own career. However,…

2025-11-02T14:10:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Some products feel like they’ve been around forever, but they’re actually fairly recent inventions. Sliced bread, a kitchen staple, has been around for fewer than 100 years.  It’s tough to imagine life without the MacBook and iPhone, but they’ve only been around 20 years. It seems like there was…

I just turned 40 years old, and like many at this milestone, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons I wish I had understood sooner — specifically when it comes to work.My career has taken me from newsrooms at some of the biggest broadcasters to launching my own business. I’ve achieved great success along the way, but, of course, it came with some challenges.Starting out in media as a 20-something, I was naive about some aspects of career development. Twenty years later, as I reflect back on the start of my work life, I now wish I could tell my younger…

A combination image shows an injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, and boxes of Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk. Hollie Adams | ReutersThe appetite for blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs is far from satisfied. From fresh competition to new uses, the market is quickly vaulting into a new stage of growth. But factors including insurance coverage, pricing, copycat drugs and the development of new pills will ultimately determine how far the treatments will reach.Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are still the dominant players, as demand for their weekly injections shows few signs of slowing. Eli Lilly has…

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Christina Kantzavelos, 37, a therapist and chronic illness advocate based in Óbidos, Portugal, a town about 52 miles north of Lisbon. She left California at the end of 2022 and lived nomadically in Europe until settling in Portugal in 2024. She still rents a home in California and has clients in the US. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.It was early summer of 2024 that I first decided that I wanted to make Portugal my permanent home.I’ve been to a lot of different countries in Europe, and I’ve had…