Category: Industries

December 4, 2023

In September, Modern Treasury released their 3rd annual State of Payment Operations report, where they surveyed over 500 financial decision-makers for insights into payment operations at their companies. The decision-makers came from all kinds of industries, from marketplaces, to real […]

November 27, 2023

As convenience stores increasingly compete with restaurants and grocers, the industry is seeing a stronger need to “step up their game in setting themselves apart from their competitors,” according to Incisiv’s report. Part of that is a matter of aesthetics, […]

November 21, 2023

Nearly 128 million U.S. workers — about 70% of the entire US workforce — could stand to benefit from apprenticeships and on-the-job learning opportunities, opening up a key cohort of trained workers for employers, according to a Nov. 13 report […]

November 15, 2023

US retail sales broke its run of six consecutive positive prints in October, dropping 0.1% in the month of October compared to September. In addition, September’s number was revised higher from +0.7% to +0.9%. Retail sales has contributed to the […]

November 13, 2023

The European Union has taken another step toward creating a digital wallet linked to a user’s identity, according to a press release last Wednesday. The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a final agreement on a regulation […]

November 8, 2023

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a sizable rise in US crude stocks for the week ending 3 November. The inventory build has weighed on oil prices which have already suffered amid the prospect of a continued growth slowdown in […]

November 1, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission will require non-banking financial institutions to report data breaches and other events related to cybersecurity, the agency announced Friday. The amendment to the FTC’s Safeguards Rule would require non-banking financial institutions like mortgage brokers, motor vehicle […]

October 5, 2023

Small-business owners are increasingly relying on digital financial tools to help them manage spend, process payments, track payroll expenses, and handle other administrative tasks, according to the Financial Technology Association. That’s why the trade group, which represents 26 fintechs, says […]

October 3, 2023

U.S. auto-industry sales continued to rise in the third quarter, with automakers and buyers largely unfazed by higher interest rates and the impact of a continuing United Auto Workers strike. Automakers sold an estimated 3.9 million new cars and trucks […]

September 25, 2023

Shares in Evergrande (HK:3333) shed more than a fifth of their value on Monday after the embattled Chinese property developer announced that it would be unable to issue new debt. Evergrande ‘s stock slumped by 21.8%, its largest one-day percentage […]

September 18, 2023

U.S. News & World Report published its oft-criticized rankings of undergraduate colleges Monday, trumpeting methodology changes that evaluate social mobility outcomes after some institutions abandoned the product. Despite U.S. News factoring in metrics like post-college earnings, the hierarchy of top-ranked […]

September 14, 2023

Rising diesel prices are inflating the bills Brett McMahon is getting from the companies that truck in the plywood, rebar and other supplies his concrete-contracting business needs. Asking his clients to renegotiate contracts to ease that pain, he said, has […]

September 11, 2023

The Bank of England’s rapid pace of bond sales is creating a “selling gold at the bottom” moment for investors, according to Christopher Mahon, head of dynamic real return at Columbia Threadneedle. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, […]

September 6, 2023

Laura Cosgriff gets daily phone calls from local contractors looking for students to employ — and the frequency of those calls has increased in recent years. The construction technology coordinator for Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, said the […]

September 1, 2023

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) Corp’s market capitalization climbed higher in August thanks to its strong profit forecasts, which defied the broader downtrend in mega-cap technology stocks during the past month as an uptick in U.S. bond yields rattled the sector. Nvidia’s shares […]

August 31, 2023

Dollar General cut its annual forecasts and posted a worse-than-expected quarter, hit by weaker store traffic and a move to sell more low-margin essentials over discretionary goods, knocking its shares down 16%. The Goodlettsville-Tennessee based retailer has fallen short of […]

August 30, 2023

The net decrease – from 54,600 in June to 49,400 in July – is a five-month low and worse than expected. A poll of economists predicted the figure would be around 51,000. Leading property website Zoopla said on Wednesday morning […]

August 18, 2023

Energy bills in the final three months of 2023 are projected to drop before increasing in 2024, according to research firm Cornwall Insight, as they expect strikes at Australian gas facilities will bring up gas prices. Higher gas prices means […]

August 17, 2023

United Real Estate Group (United) has been named for the seventh time to the internationally respected Inc. 5000 list, ranking No. 711 among 5,000 of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Although our market has significantly contracted, we continue to grow by […]

August 16, 2023

U.S. stocks are mixed after a slate of reports from major retailers such as Walmart and Target and as investors digested the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s meeting in July. At 10:05 ET (14:05 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]