RUSSIA’S DECISION to halt the supply of gas to Bulgaria and Poland has added fuel to an already heated debate in Germany, which is heavily reliant on the commodity. For weeks the country’s economists and officials have argued over just how much a ban on Russian hydrocarbons would harm the economy. Now it seems imaginable […]
Skift Take Recently retired Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly once predicted 20 percent of the business travel market may never come back after the pandemic. But it’s sure looking like that prognostication may prove too pessimistic. The carrier is seeing a faster return of road warriors than it could have expected. Madhu Unnikrishnan Recent bookings […]
Outlook: Today we get US GDP for Q1 and remember that yesterday, the Atlanta Fed GDPNow had lowered its forecast from 1.3% to 0.4%, on consumer lassitude. (Tomorrow’s eurozone GDP is expected at 0.3%, by the way.) The Conference Board has 1.5%. We also get the usual jobless claims today, which show the rearview mirror […]
The Comcast NBC logo is shown on a building in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 28 (Reuters) – Comcast Corp’s (CMCSA.O) first-quarter revenue beat Wall Street expectations on Thursday, as the media giant benefited from its broadcasts of the […]
After a choppy session yesterday, markets in Europe managed to finish the session in positive territory, however the gains were hard won, and lacked conviction. In the US, the attempts to move higher were similarly lacking in conviction, with the best that can be said is that we’ve seen a little bit of a pause […]
In an effort to find a new dean, the School of Business hosted open meetings with the four finalist candidates from April 25 to April 28. Sean Reid, former dean of the business school, left the School of Business in 2020 to become provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Providence College. Reid […]
Posted on April 27, 2022 Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Cleviston Haynes. (GP) Barbados’ economy has continued its climb out of recession, growing by 11.8 per cent between January and March mainly because of a big rebound in tourism. Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes, who reported this today in his first quarter press […]
With Daniel Lippman MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO?: A coalition of travel and business groups is urging the Biden administration to nudge the federal workforce back into their offices, and to jump-start business travel among federal workers as well, as business travel continues to rebound more slowly than the broader travel industry following the pandemic. — […]
Among new books on the former Soviet Union, Erica Fatland’s travelogue, “Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan,” grabbed my attention recently. It’s not simply that I wanted to distinguish (finally) between the nations’ consonant-heavy names; I wanted to consider possible futures for neighboring Russia in the wake of its war with Ukraine. History, […]
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Media Contact: Terry Tush | Director, Marketing and Communications | 405-744-2703 | terry.tush@okstate.edu The Spears School of Business and United WE, a non-partisan nonprofit organization, released Wednesday a year-long study examining women’s economic status in Oklahoma and to highlight areas of possible action to economically empower women and their families. The […]
