- BusinessKansas City Business Journal•1 hour ago
Sprint hopes to turn solar eclipse into fun (and a recruiting tool)
Although it's business as usual for a number of local companies on Monday, Sprint Corp. wants to create a "once-in-a-lifetime experience" for its employees during the solar eclipse. The Overland Park-based wireless carrier (NYSE: S) started planning its SunBlock 2017 event two months ago. It will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday at its headquarters campus, which offers open fields. About 6,000 employees work at the campus, and Sprint bought solar eclipse viewing glasses for each of them. The event will include wine and beer and lunch catered by the Westport Flea Market and Aramark. Sprint also is capitalizing on the solar eclipse theme with MoonPies and SunChips. And to top it off,
- PoliticsMarketWatch•10 minutes ago
Stock market closes sharply lower as tech shares wither
Dow drops nearly 300 points to snap four-day win streakBloombergA cashier scans school supplies at a Wal-Mart store. U.S. stock benchmarks on Thursday finished down at least 1% as heightened concerns about President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda and news of a terrorist attack in Barcelona combined to foster selling on Wall Street. Technology shares suffered the worst of the beating following disappointing results from Cisco Systems.
FinanceReuters•2 minutes agoGlobal stocks, U.S. yields fall on worries over U.S. policy
World equity markets and U.S. bond yields fell while gold rose on Thursday as investors favoured safe-haven investments amid scepticism U.S. President Donald Trump, roiled in controversy, would achieve his economic agenda. Adding to investor concerns was news that a van had slammed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing 13 people, according to media reports, in an attack police were treating as a terrorism. The U.S. dollar clung to a tiny gain and U.S. Treasury yields fell on worries Trump will be unable to deliver on campaign promises such as tax reform, even as the White House knocked down speculation that Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, would resign.
