Inflation is hot just like the job market, but the March jobs report showed there aren’t a lot of jobs where wage growth is standing up to heated prices. That is, with some exceptions — which may hint a lot about where consumer demand is going as pandemic concerns fade. In a healthy-looking jobs report […]
The Yale professor who is monitoring companies that are still doing business in Russia following its unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine has upped the ante by reclassifying the list into five categories with the fifth titled “digging in” — or defying public demands for exit. Some 39 companies, including Koch Industries Inc., packaging company Ball […]
“Markets appear to have been trafficking in an odd mix of hope, fear and uncertainty.” That was Mizuho Bank, summing up the state of play for markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three weeks ago. For Tuesday, China’s COVID-19 worries and tensions with the US are adding to the mix, with equities wobbling, and […]
The sting of gasoline prices above $4 a gallon leaves some Americans rethinking their driving options, and just how aggressively they burn gas while driving. For some drivers, the double-edged sword of rising inflation after the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine leading to a spike in gas prices has […]
The sting of gasoline prices above $4 a gallon leaves some Americans rethinking their driving options, and just how aggressively they burn gas while driving. For some drivers, the double-edged sword of rising inflation after the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine leading to a spike in gas prices has […]
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