Facebook Inc.’s struggle to convince lawmakers it can create a viable cryptocurrency is rubbing off on bitcoin.

The world’s most popular cryptocurrency has fallen sharply as regulatory scrutiny of Facebook’s ambitious plan to release its own digital coin, called Libra, has spoiled bitcoin’s big rally this year.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-loses-almost-a-third-of-its-value-as-libra-hype-fades-11563349942?mod=e2tw

No ifs, ands or “butts” about it: Natalia Garibotto is rolling in dough. The Brazilian model makes $300,000 a year just from posting sexy pics of her booty. Another $400,000 comes from stocks, real estate and her sun oil business. See why this Miami-based influencer can charge up to $5,000 per social media post, which she shares with her 1.3 million followers.

Source: https://nypost.com/video/my-butt-makes-me-700000-a-year/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said earnings, excluding the effects of bonuses, rose by 3.6% on an annual basis in the three months to May – beating the forecasts of economists.

When bonuses were included, the percentage figure rose to 3.4% from 3.2% a month earlier.

The data suggests a boost to household spending power as the rate of inflation, due to be updated on Wednesday, currently stands at 2%.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/wage-growth-nears-11-year-high-but-hiring-slows-11764105

Damian Lewis rocks them in Billions. Liev Schreiber sports a pair in Ray Donovan. Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell use them to get their swagger on in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Tom Cruise also amps up his cool quotient with Randolph Engineering aviator sunglasses in the movies American Made and Oblivion. And in Top Gun…?

Source: https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/randolph-engineering-massachusetts-military-eyewear-main-street.html?cid=sf01001

U.S. companies are increasingly paying up to retrain workers as new technologies transform the workplace and companies struggle to recruit talent in one of the hottest job markets in decades.

Amazon.com Inc. is the latest example of a large employer committing to help its workers gain new skills. The online retailer said Thursday it plans to spend $700 million over about six years to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce as automation, machine learning and other technology upends the way many of its employees do their jobs.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-retrain-a-third-of-its-u-s-workforce-11562841120?mod=e2tw

HAMBURG/DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co (F.N) and Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said on Thursday they are expanding their global alliance announced in January with deals expected to involve collaboration on electric and autonomous vehicles.

Further details on a technology-sharing agreement are expected to be announced at New York press conference on Friday. The companies said Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess and Ford CEO Jim Hackett would appear together, but provided no additional information in a news release.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-ford-alliance/ford-volkswagen-to-provide-details-on-electric-autonomous-vehicle-alliance-idUSKCN1U62CR?il=0

The boring Hong Kong dollar has been more exciting of late. A couple months after a U.S. hedge fund manager targeted the currency, it is moving sharply. Two giant upcoming stock sales are a major factor, but the recurring phenomenon flags a peculiarity of the system.

Since late May, Hong Kong’s dollar has been on a relative tear for a currency that trades in a narrow band against the U.S. dollar, to which it is pegged. It touched its strongest level in two years last week. The three-month Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate ticked up to 2.7%, outstripping the equivalent U.S. dollar Libor rate of 2.3%.

Source: https://www.breakingviews.com/considered-view/budweiser-and-alibaba-flag-hong-kong-dollar-oddity/

Employers are battling to hire skilled employees in one of the tightest labor markets in 50 years. So they must be courting job seekers, wooing them with care and consideration—right?

Some hiring managers apparently didn’t get the memo.

A growing number of job applicants are being ghosted—interviewing for jobs, then getting no follow-up response from the employer. Others say employers’ dismissive handling of their applications or interviews is leaving them cold.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-interview-etiquette-isnt-just-for-the-applicants-11562578204?mod=e2tw

A federal judge on Monday blocked a Trump administration rule requiring drugmakers to put prices in television ads, a central part of the president’s push to lower the cost of prescription medications.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., is the latest blow to a number of administrative actions on health care. 

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-rule-requiring-drug-prices-in-tv-ads-blocked-11562634281?mod=e2tw

LONDON—A man strolled down the candy aisle of a grocery store in England last month, picked up a bar of chocolate and stashed it in his back pocket. He wasn’t stealing. Specially equipped surveillance cameras were tracking both his body and the products he was taking off the shelves, to help him pay for them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spurred-by-amazon-supermarkets-try-swapping-cashiers-for-cameras-11562491800?mod=e2tw