The Week (US)

The bottom line

- The Securities and Exchange Commission this week announced its biggesteve­r whistleblo­wer rewards, with roughly $83 million combined going to three whistleblo­wers who alerted the regulator that Bank of America misused customer cash and securities to genera

Roughly 84 percent of U.S. private-sector jobs— 105 million—are in the service industry, including retail clerks, truck drivers, and doctors. By contrast, only 20.5 million jobs are in goods-producing industries such as logging, mining, constructi­on, and manufactur­ing.

Black Panther is now the second-fastest grossing movie of all time, having taken $605.4 million at the U.S. box office in its first 31 days. The Marvel Comics film is also the first to top the weekend charts for five straight weekends since Avatar did so in 2010 (and only the fourth in 20 years after Titanic, The Sixth Sense, and Avatar).

Former FBI Director James Comey’s forthcomin­g memoir soared to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list last weekend, more than a month ahead of its rollout in bookstores. A Higher Loyalty:Truth, Lies, and Leadership will be officially released on April 17.

Amazon briefly overtook Google parent Alphabet in market value for the first time this week. The market cap of the Seattle-based e-commerce powerhouse hit $762.7 billion, with Alphabet close behind at $762.3 billion.

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