Canada’s government has formulated a list of tariffs valued at $105 billion in U.S. dollars that it will impose on U.S. goods if incoming president Donald Trump lays new import duties on Canadian goods coming into the U.S., an unnamed government official told Bloomberg.
Retail sales during the November and December holiday season totaled $994.1 billion, the U.S. Commerce Department reported, a 4-percent bump over 2023’s total. Online sales rose 8.6 percent.
In December, U.S. inflation set an annual pace of 2.9 percent, compared to 2.7 percent in November. It was the sharpest one-month increase since February 2024, The New York Times noted.
Despite a pickup in the services sector, the Eurozone’s economy closed 2024 with a variety of data pointing toward a grim year ahead.
After falling to 6.2 percent in September, the average national interest rate on a fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage climbed back to 6.93 percent last week, its highest since July, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. reported.
In 2024, at least 686 U.S. corporations filed bankruptcy, 8 percent more than in 2023 and the most since 2010 during the Great Recession when 828 corporations went bust, S&P Global Intelligence reported.
Late-paying credit card accounts in the U.S. are more numerous than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis, the Financial Times reported, as low-income households have run out of financial reserves after more than two years of relentless inflation.
The number of homeless Americans increased by more than 770,000 in one year—representing an increase of 18 percent, as more people struggle under high interest rates, high inflation, and surging housing costs.
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community this year.
Employers took on another 227,000 workers in November, indicating a strong but not overheated jobs market.
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