CFO News

MAY 31, 2023

Enthused by higher than expected GDP number in the fourth quarter of FY23, Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said India can look for another year of solid economic performance. per cent on account of better performance by agriculture, manufacturing, mining and construction sectors.

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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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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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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Visit a construction job site and – along with the water coolers, chain link fences, portable toilets and tools – chances are you will come across stacks of papers, including plans, permits and invoices. The cost of late payments in commercial construction runs $40 billion annually, according to one recent industry report.

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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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PYMNTS

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 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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

That number is expected to rise soon as the Federal Reserve Board issues business loans under the Main Street Lending Program. million as leisure and hospitality, construction, education and health services, and retailers added jobs. The labor market may have hit bottom in May,” Powell said.

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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

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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PYMNTS

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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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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PYMNTS

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

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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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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

What we’ve seen throughout the pandemic is that the economic fallout from each successive wave of case counts has been smaller and smaller,” said. Still, the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases has disrupted operations at a number of manufacturers, and some companies continue to experience staffing shortages. Christopher Kempczinski.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

PYMNTS breaks down the numbers behind the latest cases below. It could really damage the economics of a city," said co-author Eric Holzman, assistant professor of accounting at Ohio State. But the BEC scam is not the only kind of business payments fraud plaguing firms today.

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PYMNTS

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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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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

The rest of the positions, about 52 million, are at moderate risk — education, retail, construction and manufacturing. Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s ex-chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said that the negative effect on jobs and the economy will be quickly felt.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The small business financing market is in a unique position: despite market volatility and an economic downturn, funding availability remains strong for SMBs thanks to government funding initiatives. Finance statistics that found a decline in the number of businesses seeking invoice finance “for the first time in many, many years,” she said.

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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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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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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The hiring slowdown was indicative of employers’ difficulty in finding enough workers, as well as worldwide economic trepidation and lingering effects of the 2018 tax cuts. Construction also had a good month, adding 20,000 workers. Warehousing, transportation and manufacturing all saw their numbers shrink.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Most industries took a major hit during the 2008 recession, especially in the building and construction sector. Whether it’s fitness, eating establishments or even building contractors, the number of Main Street storefronts is increasing, and Q2 2016 sees these trends continue to bear out. Fitness Is A Growth Area. fitness market.

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