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8/4/2023
21 : 44
Cool jobs data
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg New US jobs numbers Friday seem to add insult to injury for Team Recession as data show the labor market cooling just enough, adding more support to
8/3/2023
22 : 4
CEOs join the party
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Another day brings another wave of mea culpas over the US recession that never happened. Indeed, there are increasing signs that CEOs don't
8/2/2023
21 : 24
The price of retirement
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Workers are finding it harder to save for retirement, even as the amount they need keeps rising. The average savings target in the US is now $1.8
8/1/2023
22 : 44
The big one
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg In the most serious prosecution leveled against him yet, a federal grand jury in Washington has accused Donald Trump of crimes related to his
7/31/2023
22 : 24
China’s great slowdown
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Morgan Stanley's Michael Wilson, one of the few Wall Street strategists to see last year's equities rout coming, has been among the
7/29/2023
11 : 44
The soft-landing scenario
Bloomberg Weekend Reading View in browser Bloomberg The US economy keeps plowing ahead despite all those predictions that the Federal Reserve's rate-hike campaign would trigger a downturn. Indeed,
7/28/2023
22 : 44
Humans are losing
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Humans are losing the race against heat. First came the hottest June in recorded history. Now it's the hottest-ever July. This year is already
7/27/2023
22 : 14
‘Positive trajectory’
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg US economic growth picked up steam in the second quarter thanks to resilience among consumers and businesses despite high interest rates. Gross
7/26/2023
22 : 4
The banking endgame
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Wall Street's biggest banks are squawking about new safeguards for the financial system, including regulations that could erase almost all of
7/25/2023
22 : 44
UPS strike averted
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg The Teamsters union announced it secured higher pay and a number of key concessions in a five-year contract with United Parcel Service that staves
7/24/2023
22 : 14
Speed bump for the Fed
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Home prices in the US are on the rise again, perhaps slowing the Federal Reserve's race to finish off inflation. Demand for homes around the
7/22/2023
11 : 44
Unforeseen consequences
Bloomberg Weekend Reading View in browser Bloomberg This year's record global temperatures are playing out on many fronts including the unforeseen, from tourism to mental health, labor and
7/21/2023
22 : 14
No bears here
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Less than 20 months after it began, the bear market that engulfed the S&P 500 during the pandemic is a mere 260 points from being completely
7/20/2023
22 : 14
Selling Bidenomics
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg He's not the head of the US Federal Reserve anymore, but like that famous stockbroker commercial long ago, when Ben Bernanke talks, people
7/19/2023
21 : 44
Goldman takes a hit
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group's profit plunged as the Wall Street giant notched one of its weakest quarters under Chief Executive Officer David Solomon.
7/18/2023
22 : 14
Burning the records
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg Tokyo smashed a 150-year-old heat record. Rome recorded its hottest temperature ever. Phoenix hit 110 degrees—for the 19th straight day. The world
7/17/2023
21 : 54
China fallout
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said China's economic slowdown risks having ripple effects across the global economy, though she added she
7/16/2023
14 : 24
The AI vote
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg It's a jarring political ad: Images of a Chinese attack on Taiwan lead into scenes of looted banks and armed soldiers enforcing martial law in
7/16/2023
13 : 44
AI under investigation
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg The US Federal Trade Commission is said to have opened an investigation into OpenAI, questioning whether its popular ChatGPT conversational AI bot
7/16/2023
13 : 24
Biden goes around
Bloomberg Evening Briefing View in browser Bloomberg In a move to get around a ruling by the US Supreme Court's Republican-appointed supermajority, President Joe Biden's Department of Education