US Job Openings Fall from July’s Record to 10.4M in August
(BLS) The US posted 10.4 million jobs opening on the last business day of August, down by 6.6% or 659,000 from July’s record high. The Northeast and Midwest regions saw…
(BLS) The US posted 10.4 million jobs opening on the last business day of August, down by 6.6% or 659,000 from July’s record high. The Northeast and Midwest regions saw…
(ZEW) The Economic Sentiment Index in the Euro Area was 21 in October, the lowest since March 2020. The sentiment index reflected the fifth consecutive month of decline following renewed…
(CNBC) Facebook’s top digital currency engineers Riyaz Faizullabhoy and Nassim Eddequiouaq have left to join Andreessen Horowitz, a leading crypto venture firm. Faizullabhoy is joining the venture capital firm as…
(elsiglo) Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar International Airport is working to enable the use of cryptocurrencies as payment options. Airport director Freddy Borges has reportedly lined up Bitcoin, Dash, and the country’s…
(WSJ) Chinese President Xi Jinping is scrutinizing the relationships that China state banks and financial institutions have established with large private sector firms in the latest crackdown. China will target…
(ONS) UK employment rate stood at 75.3% in the June to August quarter, up 0.5% from the previous quarter. The employment rate is now only 1.3% below the pre-pandemic quarter.…
(IHS Markit) NatWest UK nations and regions posted increases in business activity in September despite a record output price inflation. Wales posted the fastest increase in business activity, with the…
(Bloomberg) Investor Michael O’Rourke is advising investors to ditch growth tech stocks for banks since the expected interest rate increase will benefit the latter. O’Rourke says although tech stocks had…
(SEC Filing) Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal increased its stake in Alibaba by 83% to more than 300,000 in the third quarter as other investors sold the stock. The investment by…
(FT) Nicolas Chaillan, the first Pentagon chief software officer, says China has won the artificial intelligence war against the US and is heading for global dominance. Chaillan, who describes the…
(NIU) Global sales of NIU Technologies e-scooters were 397,079 in the third quarter, up 58.3% from the comparable quarter of 2020. Sales rose by a lower 56.9% in the second…
(OECD) The international community of 136 countries has agreed to a global tax system that will see multinational enterprises pay a minimum rate of 15% from 2023. The deal allows…