US Employers Want You & Other News You Need to Know Now

 The US has the most job openings in 15 years – 5.4 million. People are also far more likely to leave their job voluntarily than be dismissed. That’s good news for wages, which should increase as employers compete for talent. Industries to look at especially: services, healthcare and social assistance.

Apple Music is the target of a joint antitrust investigation in New York and Connecticut. That’s in addition to an already reported FTC inquiry. Apple is suspected of colluding with labels to get in the way of its streaming music competitors like Spotify.

The super-secretive, super-selective Bilderberg meeting starts in Austria. Think of it as Davos or Sun Valley, but more elitist and less transparent: only 133 people on the guest list.

The US and EU are in a beef over food regulations. The EU Parliament indefinitely postponed its vote on a massive free trade deal because Americans do things to their food Europeans just can’t fathom.

Google’s Larry Page and Nike’s Mark Parker are America’s highest-rated CEOs. They both received 97% approval from their own employees on Glassdoor. (As always, beware self-selected survey samples.)

HP will pay shareholders $100 million to put to bed the issue of its botched Autonomy acquisition. That’s on top of the $11 billion it spent in the 2011 deal before writing down $8.8 billion of it. 

Jack Ma is on a whistle-stop tour to conquer the US market. "From the American point of view, Amazon probably is the only business model for e-commerce, but no, we are different," the Alibaba founder said in New York, defending his model of empowering small businesses.

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