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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The government shutdown was no speed bump, at least, according to the latest job numbers. The numbers, released by the U.S. Yet, there was at least some downward revision to other numbers: December’s previously reported gain of 312,000 positions was reduced to 222,000 net additions. Data released on Friday (Feb.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Within the 37,000 addition in goods-producing industries, construction added 20,000, durable-goods manufacturing rose by 11,000, nondurable-goods manufacturing expanded by 3,000, and mining and logging industries added 3,000 (see second chart). The total number of officially unemployed was 6.011 million in November, a drop of 48,000.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2024

In moving to Beijing from Toronto, SWIFT hopes to enhance its position as a global provider of secure financial messaging services, since the city is home to most of China’s biggest companies and the largest number of Fortune Global 500 companies in the world.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Numbers-wise, the regional impact and cost are in line with such events elsewhere on the planet. According to the World Economic Forum, globally reported economic losses attributed to climate and water extremes reached $1.48 Grizzi, EY: The impacts of natural disasters filter down through the entire economic system.

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Global Finance

JULY 18, 2024

In this two-part feature on the economics of the Olympics, Global Finance delves into the financial strategies and innovations that the 2024 Paris Games , which run from July 26 to Aug. The stable of sponsors reflects changes in recent economic history. 11, are implementing to avoid the pitfalls of past host cities. billion to $12.1

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Ironically, it was during Jefferson’s presidency that the government first embarked upon road construction, with the National Road. This in-kind “tax” was perfectly acceptable to the farming community and it was able to fend off LAW’s legislation for a number of years. Prescient words, those. But not, of course, indefinitely.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The government shutdown was no speed bump, at least, according to the latest job numbers. The numbers, released by the U.S. Yet, there was at least some downward revision to other numbers: December’s previously reported gain of 312,000 positions was reduced to 222,000 net additions. Data released on Friday (Feb.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This sentiment is echoed by AI Now, a research institute, which asserts that “AI is now firmly positioned as a critical strategic technology for the geopolitical and economic ambitions of nation-states.” By comparison, they anticipate low disruption in “physically intensive professions such as construction (6%) and maintenance (4%).”

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The caveat these days is that a wicked combination of events — falling new home construction post-GFC, the pandemic purchase spree, and the low available inventory have made it more difficult to read into the usual home data. Nowhere is this easier to see than in mortgage rates and their impact on home purchases.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

There were 1,964 company insolvencies in December 2022, up 32% compared with December 2021 (1,489) and 76% higher than the number registered three years previously, according to the latest figures from the Insolvency Service. IVA numbers also ranged from around 6,300 to 7,800 per month over the past year.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 14, 2022

With interest rates already taking a toll on housing, consumer spending and business decisions on hiring and investment remain critical to the economic outlook. One indicator, real private nonresidential construction, had an unfavorable trend. However, rising prices are still providing a significant boost to the numbers.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

That will put the total number of Walmart’s eCommerce-only fulfillment centers to 10, according to Justen Traweek, vice president of eCommerce supply chain and fulfillment. That expansion is partnered with Walmart’s other recent upgrades, including automated product sorting and improved item tracking. .

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Accountancy Today

JULY 15, 2022

Mazars said the figures come in the face of the highest interest rates in 13 years which have made businesses’ debts more expensive to service and has led to an even greater number of indebted businesses falling into insolvency.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The number of Americans who filed for jobless claims increased last week, higher than analysts' predictions, another sign that the nation’s recovery is uneven. The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending Sept. The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending Sept.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The proposed Raise Up New York legislation—which would index annual statewide increases to inflation and labor productivity—would help protect workers’ economic security as prices rise, and prevent inequality from widening as the economy grows. an hour and $62,400 at $15 an hour), but still short of real economic security. More than 2.9

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The solid labor market supports positive consumer attitudes but that is offset but high inflation and rapid interest rate increases that threaten future economic growth. A deeper and sharper economic contraction becomes more probable if significant declines in payrolls begin to occur. Overall, the outlook remains highly uncertain.

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MAY 26, 2020

The seasonally adjusted number of new houses sold last month totaled 623,000, down from 664,000 in April 2019. Housing was showing signs of momentum before the pandemic and is poised to lead the economic recovery as virus mitigation efforts take hold and more states take gradual steps to reopen.”. As home sales fell, so did prices.

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JUNE 9, 2020

New hiring fell to an all-time low in April as coronavirus lockdowns took a steep toll on economic activity across the United States, according to newly released Department of Labor stats. Still, the harsh numbers were offset somewhat by a big drop in the pace of layoffs, which fell 3.8 Hiring plunged to 3.5 Hiring plunged to 3.5

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Private sector employment rose by 167,000 in July, but the numbers are a far cry from June, when private-sector employment increased by nearly 2.4 The total was well below Wall Street predictions that the number of new jobs in the private sector would reach one million. ADP found that while June’s payroll was revised upward to 4.3

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MAY 29, 2019

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. and global economy. and other countries. Top Industries.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Poverty on the continent is high, public investment to strengthen health, education, and infrastructure is low, and economic activity remains sluggish as a result. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) puts Africa’s tax-to-GDP ratio for 2021—the unweighted average for 33 African nations—at 15.6%, compared to 19.8%

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Job openings rose in a number of industries, with the largest increases in retail trade (+172,000), health care and social assistance (+146,000), and construction (+90,000),” the agency wrote in the narrative accompanying the announcement. The number of job openings increased in the South and Midwest regions.”.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) company Unanet has rolled out a number of functionalities to add to its platform for architecture and engineering firms (A/E) in addition to government contractors (GovCons), according to a Tuesday (Jan. 5) announcement.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“Companies which have helped to provide a bridge to some semblance of normalcy, principally in technology, have seen increased demand for their services,” Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst with Bankrate.com, said in a statement. The total number of Americans claiming benefits for the week ending Aug. 29 totaled just over 29.7

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Initially, there was a tendency to view climate action as a secondary concern, often overshadowed by more immediate economic challenges. Other promising areas for nimble startups include sustainable agriculture and irrigation, transport, recycling and smart construction. Last year, Africa-based climate tech enterprises raised $1.1

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 8, 2023

Though Fama and French’s study focused on 2 factors (size and value), investment research in the subsequent 30 years has identified hundreds of additional factors that investors can use to adjust their return opportunities and expectations in constructing diversified portfolios. Read More.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sturgeon’s law suggest 300,00 of them are not crap – and that number seems generous. Box We don’t live in objective reality ; in truth, we function in a model of our own construction. We rarely deal with objective reality, instead interacting will all of our artificial constructs. All models are wrong but some are useful.” -Box

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The states that approved legal sports betting were Maryland, South Dakota and Louisiana, while Virginia approved casino gambling in four locations, Nebraska authorized adding casino games for its horse race tracks, and Colorado added more types and numbers of games allowed at casinos and got rid of some wagering limits.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I always look at housing as a long term asset; there have been various cycles where people were thinking of it as a stock and it’s just not that liquid so you know you buy it you hold it the average person you know the numbers are kind of ranging the average person stays in a home 7 to 10 years on average.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

“These improvements in the labor market reflect the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it,” the U.S. The number of unemployed people fell in October by 1.5 Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. However, employment in government declined.

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Future CFO

APRIL 12, 2023

According to the firm, China succeeded in keeping the official number of business insolvencies under control in 2022 (-13% y/y to 7,530 cases) despite a challenging year with multiple lockdowns and a large number of major failures.

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JULY 6, 2020

Of that number, more than $30 billion in approved PPP loans has been returned or canceled by businesses, a senior administration official told CNBC. Breaking down the loans, the number of companies that received a loan of $50,000 or under was 3.2 million, 67 percent of the total number of contracts. percent; construction, 12.3

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JUNE 2, 2017

That’s a good headline number, though some caution is still in the offing, with online malfeasance spiking even as the total comes down. insolvency spike : Cash flow or lack thereof catches up with firms across retail and construction, and Brexit makes things a bit more uncertain for firms in the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The number of food delivery companies increased dramatically in France over the summer while nearly all other industries suffered due to COVID-19, according to the National Council of Clerks. Reuters reported the number of self-employed food delivery workers fueled the unexpected rise in these new companies in June and July.

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. Subsequently, the report touches upon the UK’s current economic environment and TCI’s recent market status. increase which was followed by the construction industry at 1.2%

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

As companies age, the numbers will become more important, as the stories you tell will be constrained by what you have been able to deliver in growth and margins. As companies age, the numbers will become more important, as the stories you tell will be constrained by what you have been able to deliver in growth and margins.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Among the firms that Houzz recently surveyed, she noted, entrepreneurs on both the design and construction side of the business remain by nature optimistic people. By the numbers, 78 percent of projects are getting delayed due to materials shortages. Some 50 percent have reported supply shipping delays or cancellations.

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