Sydney Lake

Sydney Lake

Sydney Lake is an associate editor at Fortune, where she writes and edits news for the publication's global news desk. At Fortune, she previously wrote about real estate, housing, and higher education. Before joining Fortune, Sydney served as the assistant editor of Virginia Business magazine and interned on the production desk at CQ Roll Call. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and leadership studies from the University of Richmond and her master's degree in digital media management from the University of Southern California.

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Roughly half of Gen Z workers say they don’t want to return to the office because it means they can’t binge-watch their favorite TV shows during work anymore

shoppers at the mall going to lululemon

Lululemon adds to warnings about consumer spending as stock tanks 15% on weak revenue outlook amid tariff uncertainty

Doug McMillon, chief executive officer of Walmart Inc., during the 2024 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The event typically doubles as a preview of how tech giants and startups will market their wares in the coming year and if early announcements are any indication, AI-branded products will become the new “smart” gadgets of 2024. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon says customers are exhibiting ‘stressed behaviors’—and it’s already tanked the company’s valuation by $22 billion

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – MARCH 21: Cooper Flagg #2 of the Duke Blue Devils drives with the ball against Xavier Lipscomb #45 of the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers in the second half during a first round game of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament at Lenovo Center on March 21, 2025 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)

Meet the March Madness millionaires: From Duke’s Cooper Flagg to Purdue’s Braden Smith, college athletes are raking in eight-figure NIL deals

Sesame Street character Elmo

The Trump administration’s abrupt federal grant cuts have made their way to ‘Sesame Street’—and they risk ‘pulling the rug out from under children’

Four friends are in the living room and looking at the mobile phone. One of them is holding a credit card

Millennial and Gen Z credit scores are the latest sign of the ‘vibecession.’ Their credit scores will keep going up, Open Lending, TransUnion report shows

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address at the GTC AI Conference in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Jensen Huang sports black leather jackets worth thousands of dollars — ‘It’s the revenge of the nerds’

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 6: Penny Knight and Phil Knight are seen before the Oregon Ducks and Georgia Bulldogs game in the Naismith Hall of Fame Series at T-Mobile Arena on November 6, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

Nike’s founder, a Walmart heiress, and the owner of the Dallas Cowboys are among the billionaires bankrolling March Madness Sweet 16 schools

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff speaking

Match Group CEO admits dating apps feel too much like ‘a numbers game’ so he’s asking employees for ‘unvarnished feedback’ on how to improve Hinge and Tinder

woman shopping in Dollar General

Dollar General says it closed almost 100 stores in the fourth quarter but its sales actually went up—and Wall Street is loving it

Warren Buffett speaking

Warren Buffett’s advice for staying calm when stocks are falling comes from a 130-year-old poem: ‘Keep your head’

customer walking into Kohl's

Kohl’s had an even worse quarter than Wall Street expected with net sales plummeting nearly 10% in the aftermath of layoffs and store closures

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., speaks during the 2024 Financial Markets Quality Conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. The theme of this year’s conference is “Future of Financial Markets: Innovation and Uncertainty.” Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jamie Dimon says business school grads taking a private equity job while already working at JPMorgan is ‘unethical’

couple posing with engagement ring

More than half of millennial and Gen Z couples pick engagement rings with a lab-grown diamond—and it means larger stones aren’t the status symbol they used to be

Portrait of senior couple at home

Boomers are setting up a showdown with millennials, aging in place and plunking down hundreds of thousands on renovating their homes

By Sydney Lake and Alena Botros