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What the Current Job Market Means for Your Company

If your company’s planning to hire this year, you’re not alone. The labor market is in a streak of record growth, with 101 straight months of job growth as of February. Unemployment rates have fluctuated between 3.7 and 4% for a year, which is the lowest percentage since 1969. And in some states, the unemployment rate is as low as 2.4%. Keep reading to understand what the tight job market may mean for your company.

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Celebrate the Chinese New Year with 6 Lucky Foods

The annual two-week festival of Chinese New Year is upon us! As the Year of the Dog (2018 to 2019) gives way to the Year of the Pig (2019 to 2020), it’s time for family and friends to come together in celebration and exchange wishes for luck, health, and prosperity. Read on to learn how you can celebrate the Chinese New Year with some traditional and delicious foods.

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How to Budget for Office Catering

Creating and sticking to a catering budget does not have to be a daunting task. Estimating expenses, tracking costs, and negotiating with your caterer ensures that resources go where they need to go. As an added benefit, being fiscally responsible and taking the lead to improve the company’s brand and further business goals shows managers and executives that you are an invaluable asset to the team.

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How to Actually Achieve a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

Devoting national and local attention to exploring who is most excluded from the corporate ladder—and how and why—is essential if we want to dismantle the prejudices that have excluded people of different genders, ethnicities, races, abilities, and so on from the same economic and career opportunities enjoyed by people with more privileged backgrounds.

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What to Do When Hanger Strikes at the Office

Hanger has also been the subject of a growing body of research and study, as scientists and medical professionals try to figure out the physical and psychological causes and effects of feeling hangry. At the workplace too, hanger can be an issue: When you can’t think clearly or have a snippy attitude, it’s hard to be a productive, focused, get-it-done team player.

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All the World’s Carbon Emissions in One Chart

Two degrees Celsius may not seem like much, but on our planet, it could be the difference between thriving life and a disastrous climate. Over two centuries of burning fossil fuels have added up, and global decision-makers and business leaders are focusing in on carbon emissions as a key issue.

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Minerals For Climate Action

The Climate-Smart Mining Facility will help resource-rich developing countries benefit from the increasing demand for minerals and metals, while ensuring the mining sector is managed in a way that minimizes the environmental and climate footprint.

The Facility supports the sustainable extraction and processing of minerals and metals to secure supply for clean energy technologies by minimizing the social, environmental, and climate footprint throughout the value chain of those materials by scaling up technical assistance and investments in resource-rich developing countries.

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The Start of a New Base Metal Bull Market?

As expected, the Fear Trade boosted gold on safe haven demand. The yellow metal finished the week just under $1,300, a level we haven’t seen since November 2016. Last week, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates.

 The largest hedge fund in the world, said it was time for investors to put between 5 and 10 percent of their portfolio in gold as a precaution against global and domestic geopolitical risks. The threat of nuclear war is at the top of everyone’s mind, but Dalio reminds us that our indecisive Congress could very well fail to agree on raising the debt ceiling next month.

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How Hydrogen Can Help to Achieve Zero Emissions

As the collective voice of the hydrogen and fuel cell industry, the Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA) raises awareness of the many economic, environmental, and social benefits of hydrogen and fuel cells. Our mission is to champion the Canadian hydrogen and fuel cell sector, strengthen its leadership and accelerate the commercialization of members’ products and services in Canada and abroad.

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How Rapid Urbanisation is Shaping the Future

Perhaps somewhat ironically, as we become better connected, and the world becomes a smaller place, our populations are increasingly concentrating themselves in cities and large urban areas. This will further drive technological advancement and impact climate change, having its own influence on other megatrends.

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Key Learnings From Investor Search Data

To qualify for the Barron’s Fund Survey, a fund family must have at least three funds in Lipper’s general equity category, one in world equity, one mixed-asset fund (such as a balanced or target-date fund), two taxable-bond funds, and one national tax-exempt bond fund. Fund loads and 12b-1 fees aren’t included in the calculation of returns because the aim is to measure the manager’s skill.

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How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions

At a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common. For starters, all five of the Big Tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet) have emerged as some of the most valuable publicly-traded companies in the world, with founders such as Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates sitting atop the global billionaire list.

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