The accelerating cloud growth at Microsoft and Google points to artificial-intelligence momentum that AWS doesn’t show…
Month: August 2025
In These Grocery Stores, Prices Change While You Watch
Plus, pork optimization, autonomous trucks and efficient chips, in this edition of The Future of Everything…
U.S. Factory Activity Continues to Contract
The Institute for Supply Management said its purchasing managers’ index of manufacturing activity contracted to 48…
A key question for the Fed will be whether the economy is weakening or whether a recent slowdown in job growth reflects temporary factors
A key question for the Fed will be whether the economy is weakening or whether a…
Week Ahead for FX, Bonds: U.S. ISM Services Data in Focus; BOE Expected to Cut Rates
The key ISM survey of activity in the U.S. services sector will be closely watched as…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has said it has stopped collecting price data in Lincoln, Neb.; Provo, Utah; and Buffalo, N.Y., amid a staffing shortfall
A group of Democratic senators pressed the Labor Department in June over concerns about missing data…
Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler to Resign
Kugler’s departure creates an opportunity for President Trump to nominate a potential successor to Fed Chair…
U.S. job growth slowed in July, a signal that pockets of weakness which had been marring the labor market are starting to take hold
The latest month’s report ​suggests that pockets of weakness in the labor market are starting to…
To speak or not to speak: Why many aid groups are silent about the Trump cuts
Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of…
The job market is showing signs of weakness as Trump’s tariffs take effect
U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to a report from the Labor Department…