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 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 Yingjie Gu | Nov 7, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Having more and easier access to digital databases that store vast amounts of information on citizens would help governments make better economic policies, but could compromise the privacy rights and desires of those citizens, the fiscal director of the...
by Matt Sussis | Nov 1, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON—Following Deutsche Bank AG’s (DB – Get Report) decision to cut the cost of its flagship high-yield ETF, some analysts warned Wednesday that exchange-traded fund price wars are far from over and predicted that no-fee ETFs could become a reality...
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by Casey Egan & Matt Sussis | Oct 19, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – Economics should take a bigger role in setting global migration policies because migration is largely driven by labor market demands, an issue not understood by many of the immigration policymakers, a lead economist at the World Bank said Thursday. Caglar...
