U.S. equity markets have climbed from record high to record high this year, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index setting nine new records this month and the NASDAQ 13.
Tag: U.S. Economy
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ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Go back to 2 April when President Trump announced his Liberation Day tariff war policies. Threatening to impose skyrocketing tariffs on nations across the globe, the equity markets tanked.
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP CALLS FOR MAJOR U.S. PUSH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
On 23 July, Donald Trump signed three executive orders calling for the accelerated expansion of the U.S.’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry and announced an “AI Action Plan.”
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TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
An expected recovery in Europe’s commercial real estate market has failed to materialize, leaving property prices close to their lowest in almost a decade, Reuters reported.
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U.S. ECONOMIC BRIEFS
U.S. retail sales rose 0.6 percent in June from May, while inflation ticked up only 0.3 percent over the same period.
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SPOTLIGHT: THE U.S. HOUSING MARKET SLUMP
During the first week of July, mortgage applications to purchase a home or refinance a loan were 10 percent fewer than in the week before as the interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan rose from 6.77 percent to 6.82 percent, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported.
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MOST FORTUNE 100’S NOW MANDATE FULL-TIME OFFICE ATTENDANCE
For the first time since the COVID War began, more than half of Fortune 100 companies have brought their workers back to central offices full-time, according to a study by real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The U.S. Department of Labor announced this month that “native-born workers” have accounted for all job gains since January amid historic immigration crackdowns.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
On the tariff side of life, today, the word is that Donald Trump’s tariff deadline with China will be extended, according to the U.S. Treasury Secretary mouthpiece Scott Bessent.