In October, the U.S. trade deficit widened to $78.2 billion, compared to $74.1 billion in September, the U.S. commerce department reported.
Category: 13 December 2022
MAJOR U.S. BANKS SEE RECESSION AHEAD
Executives and analysts at major U.S. banks see the nation entering a recession. The only difference among them is when.
PRODUCER PRICE INCREASES SLOWED IN NOVEMBER
U.S. producer prices, which suppliers charge businesses for services, supplies, and raw materials, shot up 7.4 percent in November, year on year, the U.S. labor department reported.
BIGGEST U.S. BANKS SHORT-CHANGING SAVERS
Savers lost out on an extra $42 billion in interest in this year’s third quarter by keeping their money at five of America’s largest banks instead of transferring their accounts to banks offering the highest interest rates, The Wall Street Journal said after analyzing data gathered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
AUTO SALES SHIFTING INTO REVERSE
After two years of scrambling to get enough cars to meet consumers’ near-insatiable demand, auto dealers now are registering their most pessimistic sales outlook since early 2007 at the beginning of the Great Recession, a Cox Automotive survey has found.
FOR RETAILERS, BLACK FRIDAY WAS BLACK INDEED
Sales at brick-and-mortar stores on the celebrated and closely-watched “Black Friday” shopping day after Thanksgiving fell short of last year’s amount, indicating that shoppers are starting their holiday shopping earlier ahead of the December holidays, The Wall Street Journal said.
“HOW LOVELY IT IS”: U.K. SCIENTISTS CREATE CHIMERIC FLU – RSV SUPER VIRUS
The unbounded hubris of scientists dangerously manipulating viruses is showing itself again.
JAPAN PREPARING TO POISON THE PLANET
The gang running Japan is getting ready to poison the plant with the release of cooling water laced with toxic tritium, from the storage tanks at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
WHOPPING DEFENSE BILL CONTAINS ONLY A FRACTION OF WHAT WILL REALLY BE SPENT ON UKRAINE
How focused on Ukraine was the summary document of the just-passed 2023 National Defense Authorization Act?
WORRIED ABOUT COVID? ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ STILL BEING PRODUCED BY MANUFACTURERS
Asset managers are joining forces to pressure major U.S. companies to stop producing products that contain “forever chemicals” that have a deleterious impact on a human’s health.