News by subject: Economic News/Analysis

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released its monthly Southern California home sales report for February 2023. The report includes data for new and resale single-family homes and resale...

? The typical U.S. homebuyer's down payment fell 10% year over year in January to $42,375, its lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. The median down...

On the heels of a weaker than expected 2022, International Data Corporation (IDC) has lowered its forecast for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets in 2023. Global shipments are now expected to reach 10.1 million units this year, according...

Fidelity Investments® today released its latest Retirement Savings Assessment, revealing a decline in retirement readiness as American savers continue to navigate market volatility and disruption. America's Retirement Score1 has moved back into the...

Area Development's 37th Annual Corporate Survey and 19th Annual Consultants Survey reflect the impact of tight labor markets and inflation on corporate executives' site and facility plans across a range of small and large companies in varied...

Along with the struggling PC market, PC monitor shipments contracted 18.3% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) leading to an annual decline of 5.9% for the full year 2022, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...

?The median U.S. home price fell 1.2% in February marking the first year-over-year decline since 2012, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Sellers have been forced to lower their...

Martin Rapaport, Chairman of the Rapaport Group, will speak at the Diamond Dealers Club on March 20 at 2:30 p.m. EDT. Martin will discuss systematic fraud by sellers of synthetic, man-made diamonds who fail to disclose the truth about collapsing...

The slower pace of rate increases and cutbacks in capacity highlight how the cyber liability insurance market may be starting to cool, even as another high-water mark for premiums is likely in 2022, according to a new AM Best commentary. The Best's...

Worldwide spending on security solutions and services is forecast to be $219 billion in 2023, an increase of 12.1% compared to 2022, according to the new Worldwide Security Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC). Investments in...

Worldwide shipments of industrial printers declined 11.6% year over year to 78,500 units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22), according to results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker. Results...

Regulatory News: Valbiotis (FR0013254851 ? ALVAL, PEA / SME eligible) (Paris:ALVAL), a commercially oriented Research and Development company committed to scientific innovation for preventing and combating metabolic and cardiovascular diseases,...

Amarenco, a Franco-Irish company specialising in photovoltaic energy, has just completed a new round of capital raising for 300 m?. This latest round allows Arjun Infrastructure Partners, to acquire a minority stake in Amarenco. Arjun Infrastructure...

Park City Group, Inc. , the parent company of ReposiTrak, Inc., which operates a B2B ecommerce, compliance, and supply chain platform that largely partners with grocery retailers, wholesalers, and their suppliers, to accelerate sales, control risk,...

Despite U.S. insurance companies' minimal exposure to bonds issued by the now-shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the failure highlights for insurers the importance of managing enterprise, asset-liability and liquidity risks, according to an AM Best...

First Trust Advisors L.P. ("First Trust"), a leading exchange-traded fund ("ETF") provider and asset manager, announced today that it has launched a new ETF, the First Trust Bloomberg Inflation Sensitive Equity ETF (the "fund"). The fund seeks...

FSD Pharma Inc. (FRA: 0K9A) ("FSD Pharma" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to building a portfolio of innovative assets and biotech solutions for the treatment of challenging neurodegenerative, inflammatory and metabolic...

Splio, CRM expert and developer of the SaaS Individuation® marketing platform, is proud to announce the acquisition of Tinyclues, the specialist in SaaS predictive marketing based on deep learning AI. This acquisition fulfills a shared ambition to...

Faced with an ongoing transition towards alternative devices and challenged budgets, global shipments of thin client devices declined 24% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22). For the full year 2022, shipment volume shrank 7.9%,...

Truckload freight volumes slipped in February and load-to-truck ratios, which indicate demand for truckload services on the spot market, hit their lowest points since May 2020, said DAT Freight & Analytics, operators of the industry's largest online...

Despite equity market volatility, inflationary pressure and rapid interest rate hikes, U.S. life insurance and annuity writers posted a 17% increase in net income to $31.7 billion through third-quarter 2022, as compared with the same prior year...

?The median U.S. asking rent rose 1.7% year over year to $1,937 in February?the smallest increase in nearly two years and the lowest level in a year, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage....

Sunrise, the company revolutionising home sleep testing, announces a ?17 million in funding. The successful fundraising is led by Kurma Partners and includes the exceptional entry of the European Innovation Council (EIC Fund). The Walloon start-up...

?The typical homebuyer's monthly payment hit a new all-time high of $2,563 this week, up 29% from $1,988 a year ago, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That's dampening demand and...

Worldwide Ethernet switch revenues grew 22.0% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) to $10.3 billion and grew 18.7% for the full year 2022 to $36.5 billion. The total worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded...

The enterprise segment of the worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market reached its highest quarterly revenue ever in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22), rising 47.9% year over year to $3.35 billion. The market grew 31.4% year over year for...

An independent economic research analysis estimated that leading health and well-being company Humana Inc. would contribute a total of $48 billion in overall economic impact in the state of Florida in 2022. In addition, Florida is home to more...

Fresh data from Global Blue shows the recovery for Tax Free Shopping remains solid across Continental Europe and Asia Pacific. Issued sales in store like-for-like recovery reached 90%1 in February vs. 102%1 in January. This lower recovery rate in...

Regulatory News: ESI Group (Paris:ESI) (ISIN Code: FR0004110310, Symbol: ESI) is a global partner in simulation and virtual prototyping software for various industries. The company is committed to promoting gender equality through various actions,...

Today, Apartments.com ? a CoStar Group company ? released an in-depth report of multifamily rent growth trends for February 2023 backed by analyst observations. February marks the second month in a row of positive month over month rent growth,...

Maxio, the industry-leading financial operations platform for high-growth, software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, today released its first Growth Index, which analyzes anonymized year-over-year billing data from the company's 2,000+ customers. The...

Following the passage of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act in December 2019, the majority of defined contribution (DC) retirement plan consultants, 82%, report that they have gotten more comfortable recommending...

WelcomeHome Software, a game-changing customer relationship management system for the senior housing industry, announces the release of its first Year In Review. With data aggregated from the 1,000 plus communities WelcomeHome currently serves, the...

Trilliant Health, the leading analytics and market research firm in the healthcare industry, today released its newest report, Trends Shaping the Health Economy: Behavioral Health, uncovering massive shifts in the American behavioral health market....

Oil and gas enterprises in the Nordics are adopting new digital technologies to boost output, reduce carbon emissions and cut costs as they navigate multiple industry disruptions, according to a new research report published today by Information...

Tax policy is a critical tool that can be used to address the nation's housing affordability crisis. National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) President Sharon Wilson Géno delivered that message to the Senate Finance Committee today in testimony on...

According to an analysis by the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA), a proposal in the legislature to implement nurse staffing ratios would have drastic, negative impacts on patient care, access, and cost, reducing availability of hospital care...

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPItm) and HPI Forecasttm for January 2023. U.S. home prices continued their gradual free fall in...

Diamond trading was quiet in February as the trade prepared for the Hong Kong International Jewellery Show, which ran from March 1 to 5. The market is segmented. Small goods are doing better than those over 0.50 carats. The RapNet Diamond Index...

The insurance market in the United Arab Emirates reported a marked deterioration in underwriting profitability in 2022. In AM Best's opinion, this largely reflects the highly competitive market conditions and continuous pricing pressures,...

The worldwide hardcopy peripherals market saw overall shipments grow 11.6% year over year to nearly 25.0 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22). Shipment value during the quarter increased 14.8% to $11.1 billion, according to the...

KBRA releases research on the office sector and the headwinds it faces. Office landlords fared comparatively well during the pandemic because of diverse rent rolls and long leases that helped keep a lid on the sector's CMBS office delinquency and...

Peruvian exports have grown steadily over the last two decades thanks to the joint and coordinated work of the public and private sectors. In 2022, Peru achieved a record US $63.193 billion in exports, up 3.7% from 2021. The Minister of Foreign...

? U.S. home-sale prices have fallen from a year earlier for the first time in more than a decade, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. The milestone comes as 7% mortgage rates sideline...

In the fourth quarter of 2022, credit unions held the largest percentage of the vehicle finance market, for the first time. According to Experian's State of the Automotive Finance Market Report: Q4 2022, credit unions accounted for 26.85% of all...

VTS, the commercial real estate (CRE) industry's leading technology platform transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed across the asset lifecycle, today released the findings from its fourth annual 2023 VTS Global Landlord Report,...

The average global funded status for the largest pension plans jumped to 96.9% in 2022, reaching the highest level since 2007, according to Russell Investments' annual analysis of 20 publicly listed U.S. corporations with more than $20 billion in...

Origin Investments' proprietary suite of machine learning models, Origin MultilyticsSM, is forecasting that for the 12-month period from February 2023 to January 2024, year-over-year apartment rent growth nationally will be negative by as much as 2%...

Wejo Group Limited , a global leader in Smart Mobility for Goodtm, today released new research revealing that the average distance driven per journey in electric vehicles (EV) may be equal to those of traditional internal combustion engine (ICE)...

The latest winter storm affecting Southern California underscores the growing risk of financial volatility that weather-related losses pose for the insurance industry, according to a new AM Best commentary. The Best's Commentary, "Changing Weather...