This is the fifth straight month that average house prices have risen, with typical values up by almost £13,000 since June, and more than £20,000 since this time last year. On a rolling quarterly basis the uptick in house prices was 3.4%, the strongest gain since the end of 2006, bringing the new average property […]
Tuesday, Dec. 7 The Small Business Resource Association is presenting another SBRA Tune Up Tuesday workshop “Mind Your Mind,” from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. virtually on Zoom. The workshop, presented by Christine Kreisher, will address the proper mindset for success. Registration: https://www.sbrassociation.com/#EVENTS. This workshop is free to the public. The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance presents […]
China’s politburo has signalled measures to kickstart the faltering economy as the crisis gripping the country’s debt-laden property sector continued to play havoc with growth forecasts. Amid a warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that a slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy could hurt the global recovery from Covid-19, President Xi Jinping’s senior leadership […]
New York City unveiled plans on Monday to require on-site employees at all private businesses, from bodegas to multinational banks, to get vaccinated — the most sweeping local mandate in the country and one that is intended to limit the spread of the new coronavirus variant this winter. The mandate, almost certain to face legal […]
CHICAGO (CBS) — The DePaul business law clinic is working towards building our local economies one female entrepreneur at a time. The law clinic matches current law students with women from across the city, providing necessary legal advice counseling and business expertise – all at an affordable cost. READ MORE: Jussie Smollett Takes The Stand […]
China’s debt-loaded property market is headed for a reckoning, as China Evergrande Group and another troubled housing developer face deadlines for millions of dollars’ worth of payments in a test of Beijing’s narrative that it can handle the threat to the Chinese economy. Evergrande, with bills totaling $300 billion or more, will need to come […]
7.55am EST 07:55 Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent doesn’t know how the Omicron variant will affect his vote on UK interest rates later this month. Asked how Omicron will influence his thinking, Broadbent told his audience at Leeds University that: “I go into these meetings not knowing very often what I’m going to […]
Just four weeks ago, the Federal Reserve set in motion carefully telegraphed plans to gradually wind down a bond-buying stimulus program by June. Officials are making plans to accelerate the process at their policy meeting next week, ending it by March instead. The abrupt shift opens the door to the Fed raising interest rates next […]
JAPAN-MILITARY Japan’s military, among world’s strongest, looks to build ENIWA, Japan (AP) — Dozens of Japanese tanks are participating in a major exercise on the northern island of Hokkaido in a display of military power that coincides with a recent escalation of Chinese and Russian military moves around Japanese territory. Japan has so far focused […]
Dec 6th 2021 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp A SELECTION of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week: what the Omicron variant means for the world economy, what experiments with “free banking” in the 18th and 19th centuries reveal about the future of stablecoins (10:53) and how the legacy […]
