by Matt Sussis | Jan 12, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
Underlying prices for a basket of U.S. consumer goods grew to an 11-month high, bolstering expectations for the Fed to hike rates in 2018 and sending two-year treasury yields up 2 percent. Business reporter Matt Sussis broke down the numbers:...
by Matt Sussis | Dec 5, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON—The nation’s top corporate executives say they are the most bullish about economic growth that they had been in nearly six years, according to a survey released Tuesday. The Business Roundtable CEO Economic Outlook Index, which polls CEOs on their...
by Matt Sussis | Nov 28, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., demanded Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s pick for acting director of a key consumer watchdog agency step aside and allow the agency’s former deputy director—who is favored by Democrats— to lead instead. Speaking to a...
by Matt Sussis | Nov 16, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The J.M. Smucker Company reported fiscal 2018 second-quarter earnings Thursday, beating analysts’ expectations on sales and EPS and returning to positive growth after four consecutive quarters of declines. Smucker’s adjusted EPS of $2.02...
by Matt Sussis | Nov 2, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON– House Republicans unveiled a tax plan Thursday that would permanently reduce the corporate tax rate by over 40 percent, shrink the number of individual income tax brackets and cap certain deductions, including the home mortgage deduction, while...
