February 21, 2020
“The 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -3.79% was down 3 basis points to 1.495%, the lowest since last September, while the 2-year note rate TMUBMUSD02Y, -3.24% edged 1.4 basis points lower to 1.381%. The 30-year bond yield TMUBMUSD30Y, -3.26% slipped 4.2 basis points to 1.930%, falling below… Continue Reading…
February 21, 2020
“Now lots of labor force dropouts, especially disabled ones, are getting back in the game. About a third of new hires are coming from the ranks of people previously non-employed due to disability. Nothing has fundamentally changed about SSDI availability,… Continue Reading…
February 20, 2020
“Small business sentiment is on the rise to kick off 2020, with confidence nearing all-time highs, according to data from CNBC and SurveyMonkey. The CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business Confidence Index climbed two points in the first quarter, from 59 to 61, as… Continue Reading…
February 20, 2020
“The numbers: The economy showed some more sizzle at the start of 2020, pointing to steady growth in the next several months, according to an index that measures the nation’s economic health. The leading economic index jumped 0.8% in January, the Conference… Continue Reading…
January 1, 2021
“…Visa today announced a debit card that will allow users to buy things using fiat money converted from cryptocurrency stored in online wallets. The new Coinbase Card it is directly tied to the a person’s cryptocurrency balance in digital wallets managed by… Continue Reading…
February 19, 2020
“Common stock and preferred stock Most stock that people invest in is common stock… Large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap stocks Stocks also get categorized by the total worth of all their shares… Domestic stocks and international stocks You can categorize stocks by where… Continue Reading…
February 18, 2020
“Massachusetts The unemployment rate in Massachusetts was 2.9 percent as of November, below the national rate of 3.6 percent. The average annual wage as of 2018, was $63,910, and $121,350 for those earners in the 90th percentile… Colorado The unemployment rate… Continue Reading…
February 18, 2020
“Japan’s economy shrank at a faster-than-expected annualized pace of 6.3% in the October-December quarter, the first contraction in more than a year, as a sales-tax increase at the beginning of the quarter cooled consumption. Japan, the world’s third-largest economy after… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
” European equities are trading at fresh record highs, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists say the rally can go on and even expand to markets that have been left behind. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index closed at a historical… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
“Recession fears are stalking Europe again after Germany’s economy flatlined at the end of 2019. The coronavirus now threatens to slam exports to China. The German economy did not grow in the final three months of last year, setting up… Continue Reading…
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