Inflation is currently running higher than it has in a decade — the consumer price index rose 5.4% year-over-year in June, the Commerce Department reported. It last peaked over 5% in 2008. Marketplace’s Mitchell Hartman staked out a spot in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square to gather people’s views about prices and wages. (Courtesy Jeremiah Silverheart) […]
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – For the first time, we’re now hearing about changes that may happen to the area while trying to make one of Omaha’s fastest-growing historic neighborhoods safer. Last month, a young woman broke 22 bones after being struck by an SUV in the Blackstone District. When Farnam Street in Blackstone switched from […]
(Recasts, updates prices) By Iain Withers LONDON, July 26 – Sterling climbed above $1.38 against a broadly weaker dollar on Monday, supported by encouraging data the previous day showing a fall in COVID-19 cases in Britain. The dollar lost ground across the board as investor focus turned to this week’s meeting of the U.S. Federal […]
A RAF Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter jet taxis along a runway after landing at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, Britain July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) – U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said on Monday its space business boosted revenues in the latest quarter, but a classified […]
BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – German business morale fell unexpectedly in July on continuing supply chain worries and amid rising coronavirus infections, a survey showed on Monday. The Ifo institute said its business climate index fell to 100.8 from a revised figure of 101.7 in June. A Reuters poll of analysts had pointed to a […]
A picture illustration shows U.S. 100 dollar bank notes taken in Tokyo August 2, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao CHICAGO, July 26 (Reuters) – The $22 trillion market for U.S. Treasury securities may get a reality check from the Federal Reserve this week following a plunge in interest rates that bucked expectations of higher yields this year […]
About 64% of eligible applicants for the fund went without a dime after it was closed last month. DENVER — More than 278,000 businesses applied for federal relief through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RFF) but according to the Small Business Administration just 36% of those applicants were given anything. Last month the U.S Small Business […]
Supply chains connecting the world’s economies are at or near the breaking point due to the COVID-19 surge, natural disasters in Asia and Europe and a potent cyberattack in South Africa, Reuters reported. Experts said the combined effect of the forces is significant disruption of the flow of consumer goods and materials essential to manufacturing, […]
News 12 Staff Jul 25, 2021, 5:52pm Updated on: Jul 25, 2021, 5:52pm A single working mom from Bridgeport is opening up about her extraordinary journey from the brink of suicide to running a successful business. Talk to Diana Byfield for just 10 minutes and you really get this powerful sense that she’s taken all […]
The past few days have had a hint of the late 1970s about them. A shortage of lorry drivers has led to fears of food shortages. Nurses are thinking about taking industrial action over pay. The Bank of England has been fretting about rising inflation. Holed up in Chequers, the self-isolating Boris Johnson has been […]
