With the well-documented home renovation boom over the past couple years and the projected increase in construction projects as reported by the Associated General Contractors of America, artisan contractors’ expertise continues to be in demand. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, overall employment of construction laborers is projected to grow 7% from 2020 […]
DUBAI, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Investment bank Lazard Ltd (LAZ.N) said on Monday it hired Wassim Al-Khatib as chief executive officer of the bank’s investment banking business for the Middle East and North Africa. Al-Khatib will also be CEO of Lazard Saudi Arabia, the statement said, adding that the bank plans to make its presence […]
The World Bank, in its latest Global Economic Prospects report released earlier this month, warned that the global economy is perilously close to falling into recession this year. It said the world economy could register one of the weakest rates of growth seen in recent decades in 2023, following a year of very high inflation, […]
Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change. Now comes another formidable task: enticing Americans to buy millions of electric cars, heat pumps, solar panels and more efficient appliances. Biden faces a public […]
Morning commuters in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 16, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s finances are becoming increasingly precarious, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki warned on Monday, just as markets test whether the central bank can keep interest rates ultra-low, allowing the government to service its […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A survey of national economists found that more businesses now expect job reductions at their firms and to spend less on expansions for the first time since the pandemic, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s push to raise interest rates is doing its job to slow the economy. But the survey […]
Ministers M.R.K. Paneerselvam, I. Periyasamy and R. Chakkarapani taking part in a public hearing in Dindigul on Sunday. A public hearing on the State introducing a separate budget for agriculture was held here on Sunday in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, M. R. K. Panneerselvam, Minister for Food and Civil […]
Siren Nasdaq NexGen Economy ETF (NASDAQ:BLCN – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totalling 53,100 shares, an increase of 27.6% from the December 15th total of 41,600 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 23,900 […]
Two former Bank of Israel governors, Karnit Flug and Jacob Frenkel, joined warnings Sunday that the government’s plans for a sweeping overhaul of the country’s judiciary could negatively affect Israel’s credit rating, and “deal a severe blow to the economy and its citizens.” In a joint op-ed in the Yedioth Aharonoth daily, Flug, who served […]
BRAZIL – 2021/09/05: In this photo illustration the QuickBooks (Intuit) logo seen displayed on a … [+] smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – […]
