In early 2015, she was a young associate at a law firm in Columbus, Ohio, working with a team that specialized in financing and mergers and acquisitions. The job paid $110,000 with the opportunity to become a partner. Yet the money and prestige left Bacon feeling less than fulfilled, even though both were a step up from her first gig as an entry-level staff attorney. “I thought I was going to love this second job,” the 30-year-old Bacon recalled. Long hours and job-related stress weighed on her.

When I first set out to buy an apartment with my husband, I was in my mid-20s and didn’t know anyone my age who owned property. Here are three of the most important things I didn’t know I didn’t know when I set out to buy my first home:You should only and always buy for the right reasonsWhy should intention matter in real estate? The first apartment my husband and I tried to buy was a one-bedroom I found on the for-slae-by-owner section of Craigslist. It was below-market for its location near tr

Apple has said it wants to double the revenue of its services business by 2020, which is its fastest growing business segment. After earnings that disappointed Wall Street, CEO Tim Cook said how it plans to hit that target. “In services, the App Store was up 40 percent, and our developer community is growing by over 20 percent,” Cook told CNBC. It was the highest revenue for a 13-week quarter, Cook said, adding the company feels “great” about the growth. Cook previously said during Apple’s last

The euro edged down 0.2 percent against the broadly stronger dollar to $1.0911, close to last week’s peak of $1.09515. “The ECB (European Central Bank) may be talking about policy normalization, but at the end of the day they’re still easing; they’re still expanding the balance sheet,” said Barclays currency strategist Hamish Pepper, in London. While the ECB continues to pump tens of billions of euros into the euro zone economy each month, the Fed has raised interest rates twice in the past six

Gold hovered near three-week lows on Wednesday as the dollar firmed on expectations of a U.S. interest rate increase in June and the market discounted a surprise win by France’s far-right presidential candidate. The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady after concluding its two-day meeting on Wednesday, but it might focus on future rate hikes, which would reduce demand for non-interest bearing gold. Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at $1,253.86 per ounce, after touching it

Oil prices rebounded on Wednesday after preliminary data showed a much higher-than-expected fall in U.S. crude stockpiles, but concern over OPEC’s output cuts and rising output in Libya and the United States capped gains. Benchmark Brent crude was up 35 cents at $50.81 a barrel by 7:51 a.m. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude traded at $47.87 a barrel, up 21 cents. WTI had slid 2.4 percent on Tuesday on concerns about falling OPEC compliance with its production-curbing deal. In the five min

Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday, as gains on Wall Street overnight were offset by disappointment with Apple earnings, with traders looking ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting results. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 ended down 0.98 percent, or 58.065 points, at 5892.30, amid declines in banking and some resources shares. Japan is shut for the rest of the week for the Golden Week holiday. Market expectations for a rate hike following this meeting are just 4.8 percent, according to the C

The stock market rally could be losing its muscle. We recognize it’s been a good earnings season,” said Mark Eibel, the firm’s director of client investment strategies, on Tuesday’s “Futures Now.” Since Trump won the November presidential election, the S&P 500 and the Dow have soared 12 percent and 14 percent, respectively. “Until some of the promises are fulfilled, you are kind of left with earnings,” added Eibel. So we won’t have that moving forward as much through the rest of the year.”

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Microsoft is introducing a new version of Windows 10 today: Windows 10 S. It’s essentially Microsoft’s answer to Chrome OS, to simplify Windows for low-end hardware and in particular the education market. “Everything that runs on Windows 10 S is downloaded from the Windows Store,” says Microsoft’s Windows chief Terry Myerson. That doesn’t mean that desktop apps won’t run on this version of Windows 10, but they’ll need to be specially packaged and listed in the Windows Store. Windows 10 S will al

Apple makes most of its money from iPhones — and even if it meets estimates of 52 million, that’s not a lot more than the 51 million it reported a year ago. To make more money, Apple will either need to outsell Wall Street’s estimates or, as Cowen’s Timothy Arcuri suggests, sell more expensive phones. Beyond that, UBS’ Steven Milunovich suggests, Apple investors will just need to believe as reports predict the next iPhone could be game-changing. “Investors need faith that users are waiting rathe

Microsoft is launching a new Surface-branded device today: the Surface Laptop. “We talk to a lot of them… they’re asking for a laptop, they’re asking for a Surface laptop,” says Panay. The Surface Laptop is a clamshell device, a true laptop unlike the Surface Book 2-in-1. The Surface Laptop will ship in four colors: platinum, burgundy, cobalt blue, and graphite gold, and it’s under 3 pounds in weight. The screen even supports Microsoft’s Surface Pen, so you can draw on the display just like ot

Active stock fund managers around the world are holding the lowest percentage of Apple shares in their portfolios when compared to the iPhone maker’s overall weighting in indexes, even as the shares hit record highs, according to a research note by investment bank UBS late Monday. The current positioning by investors suggests Apple stock has room to run as portfolio managers chase performance. This should give Apple more fuel even after it rallied 56.4 percent in the 12 months leading up to Mond

The goal for The Boring Company is to beat Gary The Snail from Spongebob SquarepantsMusk said current tunnel technology literally doesn’t even operate at a snail’s pace. So he’s put a target on the back of the most well-known snail in pop culture: Gary the Snail from SpongeBob SquarePants. “Currently he’s capable of going 14 times faster than a tunnel boring machine,” Musk said. Musk isn’t leaving Tesla anytime soonThe Boring Company is only taking up “maybe 2 to 3 percent” of Musk’s time. Ander

The remarks by Cuban came six days after Twitter reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. The social media company has used algorithms to combat user harassment, vowing to prevent abusive behavior and block repeat offenders from the site. They’ve also used machine learning to tailor ads and tweets to users. Twitter said in its first-quarter earnings release, it “continued to use other machine learning techniques to improve the relevance of notifications, which increased engagement a

We have an intimate relationship with our phones. And we love them for good reason: They tell the weather, the time of day and the steps we’ve taken. But phone love can go too far — so far that it can interfere with human love — old fashioned face-to-face intimacy with that living and breathing being you call your partner, spouse, lover or significant other. Related from The New York Times:The conflict between phone love and human love is so common, it has its own lexicon. When you’re eating at

Facebook said advertisers cannot target users based on their emotional state, according to USA Today. In an emailed statement to CNBC, a Facebook spokesperson said the premise of The Australian article was “misleading.” “The analysis done by an Australian researcher was intended to help marketers understand how people express themselves on Facebook. This isn’t the first time that Facebook has been criticized for monitoring users’ emotions. These results indicate that emotions expressed by others

Apple’s next iPhone will support wireless charging, JPMorgan said in a note Tuesday. JPMorgan’s note focused on Broadcom but said the company’s new wireless charging chip will be included in the next iPhone. The firm didn’t say which models will pack the new functionality, though KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said earlier this year that all of Apple’s new iPhones, including the expected iPhone 7s, iPhone 7s Plus and iPhone 8 will offer wireless charging capabilities. JPMorgan didn’t specif

Microsoft on Tuesday officially unveiled its battle plan to take on Google Chromebooks and the Apple iPad in the education sector. The heart of Microsoft’s plan is a new version of Windows called Windows 10 S, which will be available on new laptops targeted at schools. Unlike the full version of Windows 10, Windows 10 S only allows applications from Microsoft’s Windows Store to be installed. In other words, students won’t be able to visit a website and install any app they please, allowing teach