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Retailers jacked up prices and squeezed consumers. They might have just blinked
New York CNN  —  Retailers are feeling jittery. Consumers aren’t shopping like they used to. In a game of chicken between stores and shoppers, it’s the stores that appear to be yielding first, by...

Write It Down: Historians Will Conclude 2021-Present Was Not Inflation
am EDT “You have to reroute all of our coffee immediately.” Those were the words of Michael Haft, co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based Compass Coffee. It gets its coffee beans from the Port of...

The Missing Factor In Explanations Of China’s Economic Distress: Covid (Part 1: The Cover-Up)
...Actual growth seems below the official figures; there is substantial deflation; the housing market has yet to stabilize; and the domestic stock markets have fallen significantly. Domestic confidence...

Fed Stands Despite Softening Jobs Market, Poor Earnings Guidance, Manufacturing Recession, CRE Foreclosures
...4.50% on Friday. The 10-Year Treasury serves as an index for mortgage rates, which recently hit 7.30%. That has sent the housing market into a deep funk. Hence, lower rates are something the...

Sunday’s presidential election in Panama is ‘most important’ in decades, say experts
CNN  —  Panama, the Central American nation at the crossroads of international trade and migration, will elect a new president on Sunday after a campaign season mired in legal uncertainty. “It’s a...

Instant Reaction: Jobs, May 3, 2024
...of some cooling in the labor market could mean the topping-out of mortgage rates this week before more sustained declines through the remainder of this year. In April, the economy added 175,000...

White House counts jobs report as a win, though inflation path – and interest rate cuts – far from certain ahead of November
...important as the election approaches. “If gas prices go above $4 and mortgage rates go above 8%,” Zandi told CNN, Biden “has a problem.” Biden has begun to talk openly about what he thinks...

Wall Street surges after economy adds just 175,000 jobs in April
The Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, is pictured on January 26, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters/File For the first time in a while, the latest US employment figures came in below economists'...

Markets jump higher after softer-than-expected jobs report fuels hopes of an earlier rate cut
New York CNN  —  US stocks soared higher Friday morning after new data showed that US job growth slowed considerably last month. The blue-chip Dow was higher by 339 points, or 0.9%; the S&P 500...

Looking To Maximize Cloud ROI? Don’t Forget Your People’s Experience
am EDT Driven by ingenuity and ambition, midsize companies are charting new paths to ongoing business growth. Recent research from Oxford Economics, sponsored by SAP, reveals that these...