News by subject: Economic News/Analysis

Corbin Advisors, a strategic consultancy accelerating value realization globally, today released its quarterly Earnings Primer®, which captures trends in institutional investor sentiment. The survey, which marks the 47th issue of Inside The...

Augury, a global leader in AI-based Machine Health driven by artificial intelligence, today announced that it has joined the World Economic Forum's Global Innovators Community. This invitation-only community is composed of the world's most promising...

Oversight, the global leader in spend management and risk mitigation technology, today released its latest Spend Insights Report, "The Comeback of Business Travel: How New Patterns & Risk Could Emerge," which depicts the current state of...

HouseCanary, Inc. ("HouseCanary"), a leading provider of residential real estate data and home valuations, today released its latest Market Pulse report, covering 22 listing-derived metrics and comparing data between June 2020 and June 2021. The...

Trading volumes and the number of trades in the first half of 2021 surpassed all of 2020, according to new research released by DriveWealth, LLC, a leading global brokerage infrastructure platform. First half activity was much higher than 2020,...

ICR, a leading strategic communications and advisory firm, today released its Q2 2021 SPAC Market Update report. SPAC IPO issuance in the second quarter of 2021 normalized following the record activity seen in the first quarter of 2021, with 60...

Edwards Global Services, Inc. (EGS), a leader in global business expansion, market research, operations and development, released its second GlobalVuetm report of 2021, which charts and determines the best countries to conduct business in. For two...

The American Fair Credit Council (AFCC) today stated their support and endorsement of Ohio legislation announced at the "Build Back Better" press conference in Columbus. If passed and signed into law, this new effort would allow consumers in...

Navy Federal Credit Union today released a new report on the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on military families. The survey of more than 1,100 active duty servicemembers, veterans and military spouses illustrates the new financial habits...

As COVID-19 pandemic concerns remain, AM Best is holding its negative market segment outlook on Mexico's insurance industry. The new Best's Market Segment Report, titled, "Market Segment Outlook: Mexico Insurance," highlights how aggravating factors...

Mawson Infrastructure Group , a Digital Infrastructure provider with diversified operations across bitcoin mining and digital asset management, announces it has lodged a listing application to join the Nasdaq Capital Market. The listing of the...

Multifamily and light industrial have emerged as the hottest asset classes for commercial real estate funding post-pandemic, according to Dan Page, President of Boulder Equity Partners LLC, a nationwide lender for all commercial real estate loans....

IDEMIA, the leader of Augmented Identity announced today a global partnership with Bosch Building Technologies, a global leader in the security market, to tap the fast-growing biometric access control market. According to market analysts1, this...

Renewed confidence in Canada's post-pandemic return and economic recovery bolstered gains across the country's major metropolitan luxury real estate markets through the first half of 2021. As the Bank of Canada reported first-quarter GDP growth at a...

A new report from Guidehouse Insights analyzes the growing demand for micromobility products and the resulting business opportunities emerging across the micromobility value chain. Actionable insights and recommendations are provided for...

E*TRADE Financial Holdings, LLC today announced results from the most recent wave of StreetWise, the E*TRADE quarterly tracking study of experienced investors. Results suggest investor views on the market remain positive, while concerns shift:...

Nostromo, an ice-powered energy storage company, announces that it will trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the ticker NOST. On June 21st, the company completed a merger with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange listed company Somoto. Following the...

Results of a recent survey of U.S. 7-Eleven franchise owners conducted by the National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees (NCASEF) finds an overwhelming majority have raised their wages beyond what is mandated by their state or local...

California wildfires caused more than $4 billion in commercial property losses for insurers in three of the past four years, with the expectation that 2021 fire losses could be even greater, according to a new AM Best report. A new Best's Special...

Regulatory News: Median Technologies (Paris:ALMDT) (ALMDT), announces the publication date for its 2021 half year results (audited) and its Q3, 2021 business performance (unaudited): Publication Date 2021 H1 results Q3, 2021 business...

Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases its marketplace consumer loan indices for June. Based on June remittance reports, marketplace consumer loans continued to exhibit solid credit performance during the May collection period. Annualized net...

Visa today released the June reading of the Visa U.S. Spending Momentum Index (SMI), an economic indicator designed to be a timely gauge of the health of consumer spending. The Visa SMI delivers insight into what drives upturns and downturns in...

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and its housing advocacy arm, Housing Is A Human Right (HHR), today called for Millennium Partners, a troubled luxury property developer, to completely abandon plans to build its Hollywood Millennium development. The...

Following a difficult year, the beauty industry is showing strong signs of recovery as beauty and personal care businesses have reopened for in-person operations. Data from Square shows that gross payment volume and appointment bookings now exceed...

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, the global smartphone memory market clocked a total revenue of $11.4 billion in Q1 2021. The research states that Samsung Memory led the smartphone memory market with 49 percent (DRAM & NAND)...

The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, a leading national poll on consumer confidence, dropped 3.7% in July, moving from 56.4 in June to 54.3 this month. However, the July reading still remains in positive territory ? now for the seventh consecutive...

Liberty Latin America Ltd. ("Liberty Latin America" or the "Company") today released its inaugural ESG report outlining the Company's commitment to environment, social, and governance ("ESG") practices across its operations in Latin America and the...

In the latest report, "China's 5G Base Stations to Double in 6 Months?", Strategy Analytics predicts that 2021 will be another bumper year for infrastructure vendors in China, as Chinese operators continue their large scale 5G rollout. China Mobile...

The Investor Movement Index® (IMXSM) increased .76 to 9.08 in June, up from its May score of 8.32. The IMX is TD Ameritrade's proprietary, behavior-based index, aggregating Main Street investor positions and activity to measure what investors...

Digital transformation (DX) is one of the trends shaping the enterprise world and driving the investments organizations are making to modernize their IT infrastructures and processes. Migration to service-based IT is one of the significant elements...

Robust retail sales are driving positive sentiment in the diamond market. Polished prices continue their upward momentum even as inventory levels gradually rise in some sizes. Steady demand, shortages in certain categories and high rough costs are...

Retailers in the U.K. are looking to upgrade their e-commerce platforms and improve customer experience in response to a pandemic-induced spike in online shopping here, according to a new report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) , a...

Prosus N.V. (the "Offeror") (Euronext Amsterdam: PRX; JSE: PRX) announces today an offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding U.S.$1,200,000,000 5.500% Notes due 2025 and its outstanding U.S.$1,000,000,000 4.850% Notes due 2027 (the...

Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases its Equipment Loan & Lease indices for June 2021. June remittance reports showed that securitized equipment loan and lease credit performance remained relatively stable during the May collection period....

Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases a commercial real estate (CRE) collateralized loan obligation (CLO) default and loss study, as the asset class enters its 10th year. The market segment has weathered its first major economic dislocation and is...

Ford Motor Company today reported its June 2021 U.S. sales results. Click here or visit media.ford.com to view the news release. About Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan, that is committed to...

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. , a leading global supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, announced today that effective August 1, 2021, or as permitted by customer contracts, the company is increasing prices on all rubber carbon...

Home prices across the United States rose at an annualized rate of 11.5 percent in May 2021 from April 2021, according to Radian Home Price Index (HPI) data released today by Red Bell Real Estate, LLC, a Radian Group Inc. company . The company...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared...

The July issue of Best's Review features data and information on the leading businesses in the insurance industry. Find out how brokers rank based on 2020 total revenue in "Top Global Insurance Brokers ? 2021 Edition." "Standing the Test of Time...

As retailers head into the second half of 2021, the "great uncertainty" that clouded the nation's economic outlook earlier in the year has transformed into evidence of an unprecedented recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, National Retail Federation...

The preliminary World Robotics data for China released by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) shows a sales increase of industrial robots by 19% in 2020. "The outlook for the robotics industry is optimistic," says Milton Guerry,...

Open Call 2021 is now in the books with more than 900 small businesses from across the country pitching their products made, grown or assembled in the U.S. to Walmart and Sam's Club merchants today. As expected, this year's cohort marked the largest...

KBRA Analytics releases topical and timely commentary on credit markets, compiled from our weekly podcast, 3 Things in Credit, hosted by our Chief Strategist, Van Hesser. Among the wide-ranging issues Van has addressed over the past month are the...

Today, BioTalent Canada announced the continuation of its Science and Technology Internship Program ? Green Jobs (STIP) wage subsidy. This program?funded in part by Natural Resources Canada?further supports a vibrant green economy essential to...

Wilshire, a global investment technology and advisory company, today announced the modernization and rebranding of the Wilshire 5000 and launch of a new FT Wilshire 5000 Index Series in association with The Financial Times, a trusted global financial...

Even with more than 300 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine having been administered in the US, a new research project shows the virus will continue to wreak emotional and economic havoc on vulnerable communities throughout America for years to...

Predigraft, Cibiltech's first medical device, a software predicting individual long-term kidney allograft survival and improving the management of transplant patients, was granted CE Marking on June 23, 2021. Hélène VIATGE, Cibiltech's Managing...

U.S. enterprises have stepped up their adoption of private and hybrid clouds in the past year, sometimes choosing them over public clouds, according to a new report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) , a leading global technology...

Pitney Bowes Inc. , a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing and financial services, today released results from its weekly BOXpolltm consumer surveys, which found that ecommerce...