The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community this year.
Category: 4 November 2025
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Corporate workers are facing mass layoffs and a shrinking pool of available jobs due to tariffs, slowing economic growth and the increased focus on AI, according to a report in the Financial Times.
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KRAFT HEINZ REPORTS SALES SLUMP, CUTS OUTLOOK
Pennsylvania food conglomerate Kraft Heinz reported third-quarter sales in its North America market fell 3.8 percent compared to a year earlier.
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APARTMENT GLUT DUE TO EXTEND, SLOWING RENT INCREASES
Apartment rents are falling in key markets and increasing at their slowest rate in more than a year in others as the glut of flats is taking longer to work through than had been expected, the Financial Times reported.
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FROM GENOCIDE JOE TO SCHOOL BULLY TRUMP
Now that Donald Trump is President of the United States of America and is strenuously attempting to confirm his right to do “whatever I want to do” over the entire world, it is easy to forget that minus his inability to articulate a coherent sentence his predecessors suffered from much of the same delusion.
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SEPTEMBER U.S. HOME SALES RETAIN AUGUST’S STRONGER PACE
In September, the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR’s) pending home sales index returned a reading of 74.8, the same as August’s pace, which rose from 71.8 in July.
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FED CUTS RATE, WILL RE-ENTER THE BOND MARKET
By a vote of 10 to 2, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee cut its policy interest rate by a quarter point on 29 October, dropping it to 4 percent, its lowest level in three years.
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NEW POLL CONFIRMS CONSUMERS’ DARK MOOD
The lingering trade war and government shutdown dragged consumers’ outlook lower last month, The Conference Board’s most recent poll found.
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MARKETS’ ‘FRAGILITY EVENTS’ REACH A RECORD NUMBER
The number of days this year on which individual companies’ stock values have gained or lost $100 billion or more reached a record 119 last week, the Financial Times reported.
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FED SLIPS $29.4 BILLION INTO CASH-STARVED U.S. BANKING SECTOR
In the wee hours of 31 October, the U.S. Federal Reserve quietly passed $29.4 billion in fresh cash to the U.S. banking system through an expansion of overnight repurchase agreements (repos).