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Friday's Employment Situation report for July from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the most important economic reading of this week. Here's what to expect.
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There is a new culprit in the greenhouse gas wars. Bitcoin and other blockchain activities use enough energy that they are a threat to lowering energy consumption.
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If you were looking for a major change out of the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates, the August 1, 2018 announcement might not have been the best bet to look for a big change. That said,...
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IHS Markit released its U.S. Manufacturing PMI for July, and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released its manufacturing survey via its own manufacturing PMI reading.
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With the first Friday of the month less than 48 hours away, it's time to brace for another unemployment report from the U.S. Labor Department.
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Compensation for all U.S. civilian workers rose by 2.8% in the 12 months from June 2017 to June 2018. This is the largest increase since the third quarter of 2008.
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The Conference Board has released its July reading of consumer confidence, showing a gain after a modest decline in June. Consumer confidence rose slightly to 127.4 in July from 127.1 in June. This...
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If you are planning a family vacation and are paying, say, about $750 per plane ticket for a family of four, is it smart to pay a small percentage of the total cost to protect your vacation...
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The final July reading from the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey is down slightly from the June reading, but over the past 12 months, sentiment remains strong.
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It turns out that all the hype about higher growth actually can come true. GDP for the second quarter saw its largest gain in about four years.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday said that a new currency will next month replace the wildly inflated bolívar. But what does that mean?
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To miss President Trump's tweets as they hit Twitter is to risk a business opportunity or to miss a danger worth knowing about—now.
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Venezuela's inflation is pegged to hit 1,000,000% this year according to the IMF. That's in the same league as German inflation in the 1920s and Zimbabwean inflation in the first decade of this...
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With second-quarter GDP reading coming out this Friday, there have been several economic reports that already point to July's manufacturing activity.
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A paper by Michael Pagano and Christopher Hoene for the Brookings Institution reviews the effects on city budgets affected by cuts in the federal budget and how cities might cope with those effects.
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