Economy
Walmart lays off corporate employees after slashing forecast
Exterior view of a Walmart store on August 23, 2020 in North Bergen, New Jersey VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Walmart confirmed on Wednesday that it has begun to lay off corporate employees about a week after the company slashed its profit outlook and warned consumers had pulled back on discretionary spending […]
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Small business confidence hits all-time low on worsening sales outlook and belief on Main Street recession is here
Fg Trade | E+ | Getty Images Small business confidence has hit an all-time low as the majority of Main Street expects runaway inflation and a Federal Reserve that is incapable of engineering a soft landing for the economy. In fact, the majority of small business owners (57%) taking part in the CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: CVS, Under Armour, Moderna and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: CVS Health (CVS) – The drugstore operator and pharmacy benefits manager saw its shares rise 3.8% in the premarket after beating top- and bottom-line estimates and raising its full-year earnings forecast. Results were helped by strong sales of over-the-counter Covid-19 tests as well as an upbeat […]
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Fed’s Bullard sees more interest rate hikes ahead and no U.S. recession
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Wednesday that the central bank will continue raising rates until it sees compelling evidence that inflation is falling. The central bank official said he expects another 1.5 percentage points or so in interest rate increases this year as the Fed continues to battle the highest inflation levels […]
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Fed’s James Bullard expresses confidence that the economy can achieve a ‘soft landing’
James Bullard Olivia Michael | CNBC St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Tuesday that he still thinks the economy can avoid a recession, even though he expects the central bank will need to keep hiking rates to control inflation. “I think that inflation has come in hotter than what I would have expected […]
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Fed’s Daly says ‘our work is far from done’ on inflation; Evans sees ‘reasonable’ chance for smaller hike
Mary Daly, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, poses after giving a speech on the U.S. economic outlook, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S., November 12 2018. Ann Saphir | Reuters The Federal Reserve still has a lot of work to do before it gets inflation under control, and that means higher interest […]
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Typical job switcher got a pay raise of nearly 10%, study finds
Morsa Images | DigitalVision | Getty Images Many workers who changed jobs recently saw raises from their new paychecks outpace inflation by a wide margin — by nearly 10% or more, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. The typical American who changed employers in the year from April 2021 to March […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Uber, Pinterest, Caterpillar and more
An Uber banner on the New York Stock Exchange on the day of Uber’s IPO, May 10, 2019. Source: NYSE Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Tuesday. Uber Technologies — Uber shares popped 17.6% after the ride-hailing giant reported a quarterly revenue that beat analyst expectations. The company’s revenue came in at […]
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China ratchets up military and economic pressure on Taiwan as Pelosi begins her visit
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan’s capital of Taipei on Tuesday night, kicking off a controversial visit that had already strained the testy relationship between Beijing and Washington before it even began. China has spent weeks warning Pelosi not to come to the disputed territory, which Beijing considers a province of China, […]
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Russia faces ‘economic oblivion’ despite claims of short-term resilience, economists say
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with parliamentary leaders in Moscow, Russia July 7, 2022. Aleksey Nikolskyi | Sputnik | Reuters Russia is facing “economic oblivion” in the long term because of international sanctions and the flight of businesses, several economists have said. The International Monetary Fund last week upgraded Russia’s gross domestic product […]
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