2022 Ford F-150 Lightning all-electric trucks during a launch event at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Emily Elconin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ford Motor, General Motors — Shares of Ford and GM fell 7% and 5%
Sweden’s Riksbank is sometimes accused, only half in jest, of awarding the Nobel memorial prize for economic research decades after the research in question actually made a difference. One could be forgiven for wishing the accusation were true today. The work that the 2022 prize honours — runs on financial institutions, the damage they do,
One thing to start: Asset managers are under scrutiny on two continents for their power and importance as well as concerns about the products they sell. Just like bankers following the financial crisis, and the complex financial products (think CDOs, CLOs and MBSs) they cooked up, once again the focus is on an alphabet soup
Uncertainty around the U.K. housing and mortgage market has spread among first-time buyers. Resolution Productions via Getty Images Mortgage products have been pulled, payments are doubling and lenders are backing out of agreed deals; concern and uncertainty among Brits trying to buy a home skyrocketed last month after Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng announced his “mini-budget.”
The income tax officials arrived at the Bangalore office of the Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation on Wednesday, September 7, and stayed until 4:30am on Friday. They combed through records, took statements from senior staffers and removed the organisation’s laptops and mobile phones to clone the data. As they worked through the first night, the
Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, acknowledged that Horizon Worlds, the flagship app that Meta uses to show the potential of its metaverse, still has many problems affecting its usability. In a recent memo, Shah explains that even Meta’s employees are not using the app so much, and hints at the establishment of time quotas
Professor Roger Sandilands (Letters, October 7) proposes that the UK reduces its taxes on high “earned” incomes and instead increases taxes on urban and rural land. His argument that land is inanimate and cannot be “demotivated” by taxation is obviously true, however the owners of the land are clearly animate economic beings who will have
Todd Bunton, CFA, Growth & Income Stock Strategist at Zacks Investment Research, discusses a stock that might be worth a closer look by investors: Old Republic International (ORI). Old Republic recently delivered a solid third quarter beat, driven by improving underwriting profits across several of its insurance lines. Analysts also revised their earnings estimates higher
France has said it should be able to provide Britain with power at critical moments if electricity supplies come under strain this winter, despite problems with nuclear reactors that have forced it to rely on imports. Grid operators in France and Great Britain have been in discussions about energy supplies in recent months, with authorities
The quality of life factors are off the charts for this 1904 classic home in Boulder, Colorado. Set in the family-oriented Mapleton Hill neighborhood, it is a short walk to vibrant Pearl Street with its shops and eateries, close to scenic Boulder Creek and near the Mount Sanitas and Sanitas Valley hiking trails. Colonial Revival,
Brussels is pushing for Washington to rethink “discriminatory” provisions in its new flagship green legislation, as alarm mounts among EU officials that the rules could prompt European companies to move production to the US. Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition enforcer, said Brussels wants to use a meeting of the transatlantic Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 6, 2022. Peter Dasilva | Reuters Using a market downcycle to accumulate shares of companies with strong fundamentals and prospects can lead to good returns when the market goes up. To that end, keeping an eye on which stocks
In the nearly two weeks since Vladimir Putin annexed Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin, Russia’s forces have been retreating there, outmanned and outgunned. They now face a far greater struggle to supply their front lines after an explosion ripped through the crucial bridge connecting the annexed peninsula of
One of the world’s most dramatic post-Covid spending squeezes is expected to deliver a bigger-than-expected budget surplus for Chile’s leftwing government this year, pleasing investors who had worried about radical President Gabriel Boric’s expensive campaign promises. “We are expecting a surplus of 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product this year,” said finance minister Mario
China has been placed on high alert as Covid-19 cases creep up just days before President Xi Jinping is set to start his third term as Communist party leader. On Sunday, China reported more than 1,700 cases over the previous 24 hours, more than triple the figure from the previous week. The growth in infections
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In the age of great resignation, demographic shifts, population loss, and retiring workforce, how is the muni industry planning to face the talent challenge and continue growth? Our panelists will examine some of the strategies they employ to attract and retain talent as well as how they continue to focus their efforts on having diverse
The umbrella group of global financial institutions co-founded by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is in urgent talks to review the terms of oversight by a UN climate change body, according to people familiar with the group. The wrangling indicates the scale of the challenge faced by global leaders next week at annual