Friday, March 31, 2023

China Makes Advances in Ditching the US Dollar for Settlements — Inks Deal With Brazil and Completes First Yuan LNG Purchase

Fed's Preferred Inflation Measure Comes In Cooler Than Expected As Banking Crisis Complicates Powell's Plan

'It's not zero.' Wall Street is pricing in a small but growing risk of a disastrous US default

These are the states with the highest and lowest tax burdens, a report says

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Why The Latest COVID Variant Has The World Health Organization Concerned

Chile detects first case of bird flu in a human

Jeep Automaker CEO: World Doesn't Have Enough Raw Materials for Electric Cars

FDIC Mulls Making Big Lenders Pay More For Crisis Costs: Report

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

New California gas price law another defeat for oil industry

The Direct Link Between Turkey's Earthquake Toll And Global Real Estate Markets

Tech leaders and AI experts demand a six-month pause on 'out-of-control' AI experiments

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Chipotle agrees to pay after closing store that sought union

A new world order? BRICS nations offer alternative to West

World Bank warns of 'lost decade' in global growth without bold policy shifts

Monday, March 27, 2023

First Citizens Bank to purchase assets of SVB, FDIC announces

Elon Musk values Twitter at $20 billion after purchasing for $44 billion

We’ve Entered An Era When The US Gov’t Won’t Even Take Its Own Money

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Putin says Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus

Idaho governor signs bill authorizing execution by firing squad

Deposit drain from smaller banks into financial giants like JPMorgan Chase has slowed, sources say

Factbox: The biggest financial crises of the last four decades

IMF Chief Warns Risks To Financial Stability Have Increased

US Shoppers Use Buy Now Pay Later services to Buy Groceries, Cost of Living Crisis Continues

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Port of Los Angeles sees 43% less imports processed in February compared to same time last year

Apple CEO praises China's innovation, long history of cooperation on Beijing visit

Regional Bank Pain Isn't Over: Fed Official Says A New Systematic Crisis Looms

Salesforce COO Warns There Could Be Even More Job Cuts Coming

Friday, March 24, 2023

Record numbers of people are out of work due to illness

‘Tours are no longer fun’: Neil Young lambasts Ticketmaster for ripping off fans

Deutsche Bank and UBS shares hammered as banking fears keep tight grip

Possible Social Security Solvency Solution Was Likely Killed by SVB Banking Crisis

US Officials Consider Second Bivalent Booster Despite First Dose's Poor Reception: Report

ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Xi Snubs Putin Amid Summit With Central Asia Power Play

I placed my first order on Temu, the Chinese e-commerce app. It worked, but the dozens of marketing emails annoyed me.

Falling US gasoline stockpiles signal a repeat of last summer's high prices

Evergrande dollar debt revamp plan fails to cheer investors

Coinbase tumbles ahead of the bell after SEC warning

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Rapid Bank Runs Reveal Deposits Are Now Magic Internet Money, Too

Democrats, Republicans, Companies Agree College Degrees Aren't the Future

Top-Tier NCAA College Is Scrapping Its Entire Athletics Department Amid Plummeting Enrollment

Goldman Sachs sees risk of 'permanent destruction' in demand for AT1 bonds

Second lab-grown chicken product cleared for human consumption by U.S. regulator

Argentine mining exports hit 10-year high as lithium, EVs take off

UK inflation jumps to 10.4%, surprising analysts

ChatGPT will most likely impact your job if you work in tech, went to college, and make up to $80,000 a year, research says

Central Banks Are Waging a 'Class War' in Inflation Fight: Economist

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Greta Thunberg, climate activists greenlighted to sue Sweden

Internet Archive faces skeptical judge in publishers' copyright lawsuit

Candida Auris: All You Need to Know About the Symptoms, Spread of Deadly Fungus

Senators Had Questions for the Maker of a Rent-Setting Algorithm. The Answers Were “Alarming.”

CDC says 'urgent threat' of highly contagious FUNGUS that has a kill rate of 60% and is growing across the US

CDC: Deadly Candida auris fungus spreading quickly through health care sites : NPR

Monday, March 20, 2023

S&P cuts First Republic deeper into junk, says $30 billion infusion may not solve problems

Vulcan Facility Seizure Adds to Tension Between US and Mexico

Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as China’s top oil supplier

Explained: What Triggered UBS' Takeover of Crisis-Hit Credit Suisse?

Bitcoin Hits New High, Records Double-Digit Surge As Fears Of Banking Crisis Spread

Credit Suisse merger: Six central banks announce plan to ease US dollar flows in rare joint move

Sunday, March 19, 2023

A Global Population Shortage Is Coming, Will Cause Economic Chaos

AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Exclusive: UBS seeks about $6 billion in government guarantees for Credit Suisse deal

Digital nomads can rent apartments on 'standby' for a fraction of the cost — but you might be forced to move out with 3 days' notice

Raising Social Security’s retirement age would slam low-wage workers yet again

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Oil endures worst week since pandemic amid banking crisis

Moody's downgrades credit ratings on First Republic Bank

Remote jobs have some workers feeling like college kids again: They play in the afternoon and work at night

China cuts reserve ratio given domestic pressures, overseas risks - state media

Dollar General Will Spend $100 Million to Boost Hours for Employees

Friday, March 17, 2023

The bank panic has investors worried. is the Federal Reserve about to make things worse?

U.S. approves $895M Tomahawk missile sale to Australia

‘Utter Incompetence’: European Officials Accuse US Of Ripping Up Banking Rules With SVB Bailout

Thursday, March 16, 2023

First Republic Bank gets $30 billion in deposits from big banks

Fed Money Printing To Go Overboard? JPMorgan Sees $2T Infusion Into Banking System Amid Central Bank's Move To Shore Up Liquidity

Federal Reserve to launch instant payment service 'FedNow' in July

New bipartisan congressional caucus vows to fight New York's congestion pricing plan

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Oil tumbles below $70 as 'all hell breaks loose' with banking crisis

Producer Price Index Unexpectedly Falls In February, Swinging Market Expectations Toward Federal Reserve Pause

Premarket stocks: The forgotten rescue plan that could prevent another SVB-like collapse

SVB says Goldman Sachs was buyer of portfolio it booked losses on

Credit Suisse Slump Ignites Fresh Bank Turmoil; US Stocks Tumble

Seniors Have Large Suburban Houses to Sell. Does Anyone Want Them?

What's a bank run? The 10 moves that led to SVB's demise

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

SVB collapse was driven by 'the first Twitter-fueled bank run'

Silicon Valley Bank committed 'one of the most elementary errors in banking,' Larry Summers says

Facebook parent Meta to lay off 10,000 more workers amid 'Year of Efficiency' push

Inflation fell for the eighth-straight month in February

Why SVB failed: The bank ignored one of the fundamentals of finance

Surge pricing is increasingly being used in restaurants and movie theaters, making everyday activities much more expensive

Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros

Credit Suisse warns of ‘material weaknesses’ in financial reporting

Bankers Lobbied for Deregulation, Congress Capitulated, and Now Banks Are Collapsing

Monday, March 13, 2023

‘QE in Another Name’: New Bank Backstop Could Mean End of Fed QT

First Republic Bank falls over 60% after SVB, Signature collapse

Fed pause? Market now pricing in a 40% chance of no hike in March

Sunday, March 12, 2023

SVB's Collapse Rooted In Treasury Bets During Pandemic: 'Once It Started, There Was No Stopping It'

Yellen says no federal bailout for Silicon Valley Bank

Stocks week ahead: US banks sitting on unrealized losses of $620 billion

Saudi Aramco oil giant announces record $161 billion profit in 2022

Silicon Valley Bank fallout starts to spread around the world

For Only the 5th Time in 153 Years, This Leading Economic Indicator Is Sending a Troubling Warning to Wall Street

Saturday, March 11, 2023

Etsy freezes transactions after Silicon Valley Bank closure, squeezing sellers nationwide

Vanguard Says You Can Add $100k to Your Retirement Savings By Doing This

SVB collapse a sign of pain coming from end of easy-cash era

Analysis: Declining U.S. bank reserves add wrinkle to contentious debt ceiling issue

USDC Loses Peg After Circle Says It Is Holding $3.3 Billion of Cash Reserves at SVB

Friday, March 10, 2023

Study suggests IQ scores in the US have fallen

CNBC's Jim Cramer touted Silicon Valley Bank stock a month before its collapse

Silicon Valley Bank collapses in second-biggest US bank failure ever

Biden budget plan includes billions aimed at countering China

European shares plunge as US bank crisis rocks financial stocks - panic across globe

The US added 311,000 jobs in February, for yet another month of hot labor market growth

Vinyl overtakes CD sales for the first time since 1987

Europe's banks sucked into global rout as high rates reality hits home

Thursday, March 9, 2023

I didn’t finish college — and society should quit stigmatizing that

Russia's biggest bank suffers 78% collapse in profit as sanctions bite

Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

SpaceX To Be Fined For Violating Safety Regulations

Yellen warns climate change is causing major financial losses in U.S.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

US Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to End the Trade Embargo with Cuba, Potentially Opening Door For Cuban Rum To Return to US

China May Face Financial Crisis With Cities Under Trillions Of Debt Following Zero-Covid Policy: WSJ

Black applicants less likely to get past company’s HR AI screening tools, CA lawsuit says

Justice Department sues to block JetBlue, Spirit merger

Biden Proposes Tax Hikes On Rich To Extend Life Of Medicare

Monday, March 6, 2023

China says US trying to 'deprive' it of right to develop in tech row

Gender pay gap could cost the world economy $7 trillion, Moody's says

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Oil companies bring in $200 billion in profits in 2022

Delinquencies on commercial real estate loans rise sharply in Q4

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Fed's Barkin calls for deliberate rate hikes to fight 'exhausting' inflation

Ford seeks to patent technology to lock out drivers who are late on car payments

US home prices just did something they haven't done since 2012 - fall

Friday, March 3, 2023

Starbucks Engaged In 'Egregious' Violations Of Federal Law In Anti-Union Push, Judge Finds

Teachers use ChatGPT more than students, a new study finds

Study shows alcohol delivery services used to extend drinking sessions

China has a 'stunning lead' over the US in the research of 37 out of 44 critical and emerging technologies, new study finds

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Autonomous Cars Need to be 99.99982% Crash-Free to Beat Humans

Blackstone blocked investor withdrawals from $71 billion REIT in February

Russia May Run Out of Money Next Year Due to Sanctions, Oligarch Warns

More than half of the world will be overweight or obese by 2035

China gears up to compete with SpaceX's Starlink this year

Senators quietly meeting to retool Social Security

Fed President Warns of 'Disastrous Results' if the Fed Loosens Policy Prematurely — Says 'Inflation Remains Too High'

China reports human case of H5N1 bird flu

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Iran: Near bomb-grade level uranium found in nuclear plant, says IAEA report

Before Slashing Social Security, Cut 401(k)s

Visa, Mastercard pause crypto push in wake of industry meltdown

Cash-strapped homeowners are swarming to HELOCs at the fastest rate in more than a decade to pay for food, gas, and renovations

Billionaire investor Bill Gross rips CNBC over Cathie Wood

Using AI to Write Your Résumé Makes It Easier to Find a Job — for Now

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