Happy Thursday, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories:
Bullying kids about their weight may make them gain even more
Bullied youths gained 33% more weight each year than those who weren’t teased.
At Disneyland’s new ‘Stars Wars’ attraction, brace yourself for $200 lightsabers, $42 cocktails and 4 a.m. lines
If you stay longer than your four-hour reservation window, Disney employees dressed as Stormtroopers will escort you out.
Even in a strong economy, millions of hardworking Americans are being left behind
Not everyone is experiencing the benefits of record-low unemployment and a decade-long bull market.
Sleeping fewer than 7 hours per night can lead to heart disease and Type 2 diabetes
Decades of research has shown that chronic short sleep is associated with increased risk of clogged arteries, heart disease, and early mortality.
How you can help prevent a troubled co-worker from resorting to gun violence
Experts say two prevailing myths about workplace violence: ‘It can’t happen here’ and ‘there’s nothing we could do to prevent it.’
85% of Americans say they’ve been stung by these hidden fees
Most people have not fought against this major financial headache.
5 things to cut out of your diet right now to reduce high blood pressure and lower the risk of heart failure
A study of 4,500 people over 13 years and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine comes to some surprising conclusions.
Google has more temp and contract workers than actual employees — but they have far fewer rights
A growing number of people are finding themselves in a non-traditional work arrangement.
How rating everything from your Uber driver to your Airbnb host has become a nightmare
Uber said Wednesday that will kick passengers and drivers off the app if they develop a ‘significantly below-average rating.’
Elsewhere on MarketWatch:
Trump Today: President insists ‘I got me elected’ as he backs decision to keep USS McCain out of sight
President Donald Trump on Thursday walked back a tweet in which he appeared to say Russia helped him win the White House, as he called a reported decision by military officials to obscure the USS John S. McCain during his Japan visit “well meaning.”
Pending home sales fall, marking the 16th-straight month of annual declines
An index of home-contract signings fell for the second month out of four so far in 2019, further evidence that the hoped-for rebound in housing is going to be hard-won.
Fed’s top Wall Street regulator says interest rates not best tool to stop financial panics
The Federal Reserve’s chief overseer of Wall Street says central banks should still focus on low inflation and stable employment when setting interest rates instead of trying to use monetary policy to head off potential threats to the financial system
Why are workers getting a smaller piece of the pie? It’s not because of weaker unions and globalization
The shrinking power of unions and globalization have often been blamed for eroding the living standards for millions of Americans, but they might not have caused all that much harm after all.
Jobless claims rise slightly to 215,000, but labor market shows little sign of trouble
The number of people who applied for jobless benefits rose slightly in late May, but not enough to put a dent in the strongest U.S. labor market in decades. Initial jobless claims, a rough way to measure layoffs, rose by 3,000 to 215,000.
It’s not a recession — it’s a reversion (to the mean)
The economy is slowing after a short-term burst, but, unless Trump’s trade war with China gets a lot worse, a recession is not in the cards, writes Tim Mullaney.
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