From oil to metals to wheat, prices for natural resources have started to slide from this year’s highs, stirring hopes that inflationary pressures might be starting to ease. “You are seeing relief, which should also support some of that cost pressure [coming down]. So I do think there’s some hope on the horizon,” Mastercard U.S. […]
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There’s an old story about Charles Darwin, which may or may not be true but seems appropriate to our current economic moment. According to the tale, two boys glued together pieces of various insects — a centipede’s body, a butterfly’s wings, a beetle’s head and so on — then, as a gag, presented their creation […]
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David Ryder | Getty Images After staggering growth during the pandemic, the U.S. housing market is starting to cool — and it’s happening fastest along the West Coast. The quickest-cooling real estate market is San Jose, California, according to a new Redfin analysis, which ranked U.S. metropolitan markets based on median sales prices, year-over-year inventory […]
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Since April 2022, Chinese regulators have begun approving video games again after a months-long freeze in signs Beijing’s crackdown on gaming is easing. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Shares of Chinese gaming companies rose Wednesday after regulators approved a slew of new games, a sign that some of the headwinds for the […]
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Beazley’s recently released report shares top geopolitical risks that businesses are currently facing. Global events in 2022 have significantly altered business leaders’ perceptions of the geopolitical risks they face. Similar concerns are expressed over the businesses’ ability to respond to those risks, which has fallen dramatically since 2021. So says a Risk & Resilience report […]
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