PHOTO COURTESY STETSON UNIVERSITY THE WINNING TEAM — These Stetson University students won their bracket at a business-ethics competition at Georgetown University in early February. From left are Matt Clements, Amandine Louis-Charles, Bec Hett and Mark Manglardi. Stetson University students were named winners of the Capitol Hill Bracket of the 17th annual McDonough Business Strategy […]
BEIJING — Plowing past global anxieties over the war engulfing Ukraine, China set its economy on a course of steady expansion for 2022, prioritizing growth, job creation and increased social welfare in a year when the national leader, Xi Jinping, is poised to claim a new term in power. The annual government work report delivered […]
Market Roundup •Canada Jan Building Permits (MoM) -8.8%,-1.5% forecast,-1.9% previous •US Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) 0.0%,0.5% forecast ,0.7% previous •US Feb U6 Unemployment Rate 7.2%,7.1% previous •US Feb Participation Rate 62.3%,62.2% previous •US Labor Productivity (QoQ) (Q4) -0.5%,-0.8% forecast , -1.5% previous •US Feb Nonfarm Payrolls 678K, 400K forecast ,467K previous •US Feb Private Nonfarm […]
CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Delhi Township police are asking for the public’s help to identify the suspects responsible for breaking into the Spotless Car Wash & Laundry and other businesses across the Tri-State. On Feb. 14, the owners of Spotless Car Wash and Laundry arrived to find their business was broken into overnight, according to Lt. […]
Customers shop at an IKEA store in Omsk, Russia, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Sweeping Western sanctions create investor minefield Exxon faces a ‘complicated process’ as it exits SocGen warned it might be stripped of Russian assets Toyota halts production, Pirelli’s Russian plants continue Banks count the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, another gain that underscored the economy’s solid health as the omicron wave fades and more Americans venture out to spend at restaurants, shops and hotels despite surging inflation. The Labor Department’s report Friday also showed that the unemployment rate dropped from 4% to […]
Risk assets lurched lower once more following reports of an attack on a nuclear plant in Ukraine, while commodities continued their rise amid the inflationary impacts of the conflict. Oil spiked to almost $120 per barrel on the news before settling back to around $112 – but still up by 44% in the year to […]
Russia’s war in Ukraine is not only reshaping the strategic and political order in Europe, it is also upending long-held assumptions about the intricate connections that are a signature of the global economy. Millions of times a day, far-flung exchanges of money and goods crisscross land borders and oceans, creating enormous wealth, however unequally distributed. […]
Three women from Metro Atlanta won $125,000 in funding through the Backing Black Business grant. ATLANTA — Three Metro Atlanta women of color are breaking barriers in the business world, and they’re getting a boost to help expand their brand. Camille Banks, Zakiya Bryant and Jeannell Darden collectively won $125,000 in grant funding from the […]
(NewsNation Now) — Some experts are cautioning that crippling Russia financially would take more than Western powers shunning their oil. “I don’t think they’ll fully collapse, in part because of China. China is going to continue to buy oil from Russia,” Dmitri Alperovitch, a former NATO advisor, said Thursday on “The Donlon Report.” “Their economy […]
