Tag: Economy

February 13, 2020

The number of work strikes and the number of union members are going in opposite directions, and that divergence is highlighting an important fact about today’s job market, experts say. There were 25 major work stoppages last year, according to […]

December 10, 2019

U.S. stocks on Tuesday swung from positive to negative territory as Wall Street weighed U.S-China trade developments, with a Dec. 15 deadline for additional tariffs on Chinese goods looming. Investors also were digesting news of a revised North American free […]

December 9, 2019

Gold futures settled at a slight loss on Monday, finding little reason to move in either direction ahead of a mid-week policy update from the Federal Reserve and a U.K. general election that could roil markets. The coming two-day Fed […]

November 1, 2019

Oil futures were up slightly Friday, buoyed by an upbeat read on Chinese manufacturing activity, but remain on track for a weekly loss after a rise in U.S. inventories and uncertainty around U.S.-China trade talks. West Texas Intermediate crude for […]

November 1, 2019

October – historically a spooky month for stocks – wasn’t too scary this year. An ominous cloud typically hangs over the market in October due to the stockmarket crash of 1929, Black Monday in 1987 and the 2008 financial crisis, […]

October 30, 2019

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates Wednesday for the third time this year as slowing business investment, ongoing trade tensions and global weakness continued to weigh on the American economy. But the Fed signaled that it will pause and assess […]

September 20, 2019

Texas Instruments – Texas Instruments raised its quarterly dividend by 17%. The chipmaker will now pay 90 cents per share, up from the prior 77 cents a share, with the next dividend payable November 18 to stockholders of record on […]

September 3, 2019

If you’re still catching your breath from the stock market’s characteristically wild swings in August, buckle up: September could be even bumpier. Over the past 50 years, September has been the worst month for stocks, posting an average decline of […]

August 29, 2019

The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the spring, and many economists think the slowdown will continue and perhaps complicate President Donald Trump’s hopes that a surging economy enhance his 2020 re-election hopes. The gross domestic product, the broadest gauge […]

August 19, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — A number of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021. Thirty-four percent of economists […]