| | When Hartmut Braune comes to work in security communications at SAP, he never knows what emergency will land in his inbox. | |
| The average annual compensation for non-executive directors at S&P 500 companies rose 2 percent to $304,856 last year, topping $300,000 for the first time and 43 percent higher than it was 10 years ago, according to a new report released by executive headhunters Spencer Stuart. | |
| The world's richest people became a little less well off last year, according to a report by UBS and PwC, as geopolitical turmoil and volatile equity markets reduced the wealth of billionaires for the first time since 2015. | |
| (The writer is a Reuters contributor; the opinions expressed are his own.) | |
| U.S. investors last week pulled $4.1 billion from mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that hold domestic stocks, extending a pullback from the U.S. equities market that has now lasted for five of the last six weeks, according to data released Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute. | |
| At a time when U.S. utilities face pressure to rely more on renewable energy, a well-known investor in the space said it is equally important to judge companies by their spending on less glamorous areas like power lines and grid reliability. | |
| Rock-bottom interest rates may be great for lots of people - but not for savers. | |
| (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) | |
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