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Just reading the headlines on the unemployment report is ill-advised. It was a positive report, but there are some downstream issues that simply should not be ignored.
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More than two-thirds of an American household's wealth is determined by the value of their home if they own the home they are living in.
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Shopping mall vacancy rates have reached multiyear highs and mall rents are sliding ahead of the annual holiday shopping season. Is anyone surprised?
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Yale University, one of the top academic institutions in the world, has the second largest endowment in the United States. It has announced that the value of the fund surged 12.3% to $24.9 billion....
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Has the world's economic improvement, nearly a decade in the making, peaked? The head of the IMF thinks so.
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The United States and Canada reached agreement on a new trade deal late Sunday night. Combined with the August deal between the United States and Mexico, a new North American trade pact is set to...
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The National Association of Business Economists has released the results of its latest survey on the U.S. economy for this year and next. Overall, the forecast is positive with some significant...
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California's legislature has passed a bill, which Governor Jerry Brown will sign, that requires each company based in the state to have at least one female director in the near term.
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The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is meant to help the middle class in the three countries.
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China’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dipped in September, below the number posted in the several months prior. The data were released by the National Bureau of Statistics The September figure...
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The September survey of consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan is up more than 5% year over year and more than 4% month over month.
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The economy may get another 4% growth rate in GDP in the third quarter of 2018. Or will it?
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It was no secret that the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) was set to hike interest rates on Wednesday, September 26. In fact, the CME FedWatch Tool, which uses Fed Fund futures in...
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Hurricane Florence killed at least 43 people as it rampaged through the Carolinas and Virginia. The storm also inflicted property damage that could rise to $30 billion, according to a report from...
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The Conference Board on Tuesday reported a consumer confidence index score of 138.4 for September. The score is closing in on an all-time high set in 2000.
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