News by subject: Economic News/Analysis

CBIZ, Inc. , a leading provider of financial, insurance and advisory services, has released the results of its Q3 2023 Main Street Index, taking the pulse of and gauging the outlook for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) amid the current economic...

First American Data & Analytics, a leading national provider of property-centric information, risk management and valuation solutions and a division of First American Financial Corporation , today released its August 2023 Home Price Index (HPI)...

This holiday season, running November 1 through December 24, U.S. retail sales excluding automotive are expected to increase 3.7% year-over-year (YOY), according to Mastercard SpendingPulsetm. The anticipated growth in retail in the U.S. reinforces...

Achieving consistently strong underwriting returns has been a historical challenge for MENA reinsurers, however, recent market conditions favour the region's reinsurers, according to a new AM Best report. The Best's Market Segment Report, "MENA...

Truckload freight volumes increased in August as shippers positioned freight ahead of the fourth quarter, said DAT Freight & Analytics, operators of the DAT One freight marketplace and DAT iQ data analytics service. Buoyed by shipments of retail...

The devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September 2023 affected an area with low insurance penetration. However, a new commentary from AM Best notes that a parametric insurance arrangement covering part of Morocco's National Catastrophic...

District Lending shared new research results today regarding the 10 Cheapest States to Live In Right Now. The rankings were carefully curated based on various factors such as average home value, cheapest home prices, overall affordability, total tax...

? Residential real estate deals are falling through at the highest rate in almost a year as high mortgage rates give homebuyers sticker shock, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage....

? Mortgage-rate locks for second homes were down 47% from pre-pandemic levels on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, compared to a 33% decline for primary homes, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real...

While financial analysts have downgraded the likelihood of a recession to 20% in the next 12 months, lingering recessionary fears are causing consumers to still cut spending according to the Q3 2023 Consumer Pulse Report released today by Marqeta,...

The recent devastating flooding following Super Typhoon Saola in Hong Kong and other parts of China may further pressure upcoming reinsurance renewals, in what has already been a hard market the last few years, according to a new AM Best commentary....

Arctaris Impact Investors, LLC ("Arctaris Impact"), a Boston-based impact investment firm with over 14 years of experience and seven funds, is proud to present the Arctaris Annual Impact Report: Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Amplify...

For the first time in ten years, nearly all developed countries in Natixis Investment Managers' Global Retirement Index (GRI), including the United States, received a higher overall score for retirement security over the prior year. The annual index,...

Toast , the all-in-one digital platform built for restaurants, today announced its Q2 2023 Restaurant Trends Report, providing insight into the overall state of the U.S. restaurant industry through an analysis of aggregated sales data from selected...

As megatrends such as decarbonization, electrification and climate adaptation continue to transform the U.S. energy ecosystem, the sector acknowledges the pressing needs to modernize the grid, bolster its resilience and accommodate the acceleration...

Northern Trust's Capital Market Assumptions (CMA) Report, an annual report of long-term average annualized return expectations for a wide range of asset classes, forecasts below-trend global growth at an annualized rate of 2.4% over the next 10...

The latest market manipulation report from Solidus Labs, a category-definer for crypto-native trade surveillance and risk monitoring, has found that crypto token deployers and liquidity providers have wash-traded at minimum $2 billion worth of...

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPItm) and HPI Forecasttm for July 2023. U.S. home price gains rebounded year over year in July,...

? The median U.S. asking rent in August was $2,052, just $2 below the record high set a year earlier, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That's up just slightly (0.7%) from a month...

Kantata, a leading global supplier of purpose-built technology for professional services, today released findings from a commissioned Total Economic Impacttm (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study, commissioned by Kantata in...

Hazeltree, a leader in active treasury and intelligent operations technology for the alternative asset industry, today published its Shortside Crowdedness Report for August. The report is a monthly listing of the top 10 shorted securities in the...

KBRA releases a report on the magnitude and change in distress rates of the largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in U.S. private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) 2.0 between June 2022 and August 2023. The study population...

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the leader for in-depth research in the field of computer graphics, has published a new report ahead of the Arm (initial public offering) IPO. The ?live' report will be updated as the IPO progresses. Arm has traveled a...

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released the Homeowner Equity Report (HER) for the second quarter of 2023. The report shows that U.S. homeowners with mortgages (which account for...

? Although mortgage rates are inching down from their recent peak, housing affordability isn't improving much, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. With the median U.S. home-sale price up...

Near Intelligence, Inc. a global Data Intelligence Platform that curates one of the world's largest sources of intelligence on people and places, today announced its new study, The Great Generational Shopping Divide, which reveals clear divisions...

New data from Global Blue   reveals that the overall global dynamic recovery for Tax Free Shopping has remained stable in Continental Europe, with a continued acceleration in Asia Pacific. Globally, issued Sales in Store like-for-like recovery...

The enterprise segment of the worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market increased revenues 43.3% year over year in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) to $3.0 billion, according to results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC)...

The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, a leading national poll on consumer confidence, today showed some positive momentum. After two months of decline, the September index rose to 43.2, a 7.2% change from August's reading of 40.3. This is also the...

While carbon emissions reporting has largely been a voluntary exercise to this point, emerging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations and standards will change how organizations report on ESG initiatives. International Data...

? Roughly one of every eight (12.3%) homes that sold in San Francisco during the three months ending July 31 was purchased for less than the seller bought it for, up from 5% a year earlier, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the...

The Investor Movement Index® (IMXSM) increased to 5.70 in August, up from its score of 5.53 in July. The IMX is TD Ameritrade's proprietary, behavior-based index, aggregating Main Street investor positions and activity to measure what investors...

KBRA releases research to assess the potential impacts of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA) plans to shift the requirement of three credit reports (tri-merge) to two credit reports (bi-merge) for single-family loan acquisitions. To do so,...

KBRA releases the August 2023 issue of CMBS Trend Watch. At the recent Jackson Hole meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that more interest rate hikes could be needed due to the continued strength of the economy. However, even...

Prevailing market conditions have enabled the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to secure advantageous terms and conditions for renewed and new programs, leading to a significant increase in yields for funds as well as catastrophe bonds,...

HouseCanary, Inc. ("HouseCanary"), a national brokerage known for its real estate valuation accuracy, today released its August Market Pulse report, which finds that list prices peaked in June while closed prices continued to achieve positive...

The diamond market weakened in August as economic challenges persisted and synthetics expanded their market share. The likelihood that G7 governments would soon impose stricter source-disclosure rules to sideline Russian goods also created...

E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley today released the data from its monthly sector rotation study, based on the E*TRADE customer notional net percentage buy/sell behavior for stocks that comprise the S&P 500 sectors. About E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley and...

Insured losses in Florida related to Hurricane Idalia are unlikely to surpass those from Hurricane Ian last year given the storm's path across the more sparsely populated Big Bend region, which has lower insured values than other coastal areas,...

Insight Sourcing Group, North America's leading consulting firm focused on procurement optimization and Procurement Value CreationTM, today released its Transportation & Freight Market Executive Advisory. The report analyzes the current environment...

Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released a new issue brief, "Tobacco Harm Reduction Products Should Be Promoted not Prohibited," co-authored by CAGW President Tom Schatz and Director of Health and Science Policy Christina Smith, which...

Worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals declined 11.7% year over year to 19.5 million units in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23). Shipment value also contracted 0.9% year over year during the quarter to $9.5 billion, according to new data from...

A slow U.S. economy and high interest rates have taken a toll on robot orders in North American, resulting in a decline for the second quarter in a row after record purchases in 2021 and 2022. According to the latest report from the Association for...

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its monthly Loan Performance Insights Report for June 2023. For the month of June, 2.6% of all mortgages in the U.S. were in some stage...

?The median home-sale price in Miami rose 17% from a year earlier during the four weeks ending August 27, the biggest increase the metro area has seen since October 2022. This is according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the...

KuCoin, one of the top 5 crypto exchanges in the world according to CoinMarketCap, has released the 15th report in its "Understanding Crypto Users" series of Turkey." This report sheds light on the crypto ecosystem in Turkey and provides insights...

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 4.7% year over year in 2023 to 1.15 billion units, the lowest volume in a decade, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This is a...

?Investor home purchases fell 45% from a year earlier in the second quarter, outpacing the 31% drop in overall home sales, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That's the biggest decline...

Slowing customer markets and tighter financial conditions are pressuring technology-industry executives who rode a considerable growth wave during the pandemic but now need to adopt a more structured, long-term approach to ensuring profitability....

The latest FICO data on UK credit card trends reflects the impact of inflation on consumers' budgets, as average spend hit its highest point in the 17 years since FICO records began, and average balances continued to track upwards. Although...