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close shareTools BEIJING — China’s annual consumer inflation hit a five-year low in January while factory deflation worsened, underscoring deepening weakness in the economy and heaping pressures on policymakers to inject more stimulus to underpin growth. The risk of deflation is rising for the world’s second-largest economy as a property market downturn and widespread factory…
FILE – In this Nov. 11, 2014 file photo, robots install rivets on a 2015 Ford F-150 truck at the Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Mich. Cheaper, better robots will replace human workers in the world’s factories at a faster pace over the next decade, pushing manufacturing labor costs down 16 percent, a report from…
Millennials are either impressively optimistic or blissfully ignorant. More than a quarter of them expect to become millionaires in their lifetimes—even as 46 percent of them still live at home with their parents. Those numbers are from Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll, which surveyed 1,000 Americans aged 18-34. (For full results and methodology, click here.) …
The misery index is the summation of the rate of inflation and the rate of unemployment. It’s name aptly because a high rate of inflation and high unemployment are, well, miserable things to experience. Where is the index today? It’s at an 8 year low. And perhaps more interestingly, today’s Misery level of 6.9% is…
close shareTools DALLAS — The first nationwide strike at U.S. oil refineries since 1980 is spreading to two BP plants in the Midwest. The United Steelworkers union has notified BP Plc. that workers at refineries in Ohio and Indiana will strike late Saturday night, joining a walkout that began this week at nine other refineries….
Copyright 2015 Reuters G20 gives negative outlook for global economy U.S. Politics • February 10, 2015 5:09 AMFebruary 10, 2015 5:09 AM FOLLOW STORY FOLLOW STORY Copyright 2015 Reuters this is necessary because of the different way mobile and desktop/tablet handle the hero unit image Brisbane, Australia November 16, 2014 G20 gives negative outlook…
This is no ordinary supermarket, at least according to its fans. | ASSOCIATED PRESS Entry Text People love Wegmans.The Rochester, New York-based grocer has unseated Amazon as the firm with the best corporate reputation among a list of 100 highly visible companies, according to an annual Nielsen poll released this week. “To be recognized in…
Spider-Man is coming to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today, meaning the web-slinger will make an appearance in an upcoming Marvel film. The deal is a confirmation of long burning rumors that Marvel and Sony were working together to bring the iconic Spider-Man into Marvel’s hugely successful film franchises. The new Spider-Man…
The last homicide to occur, on February 1. (David Torres) As the headline says: New York City has not been the setting for one single murder for an entire week. Congratulations #NYPD – 0 Murders in NYC for week ending Feb 8th!! Keeping NYC Safe! @CommissBratton — Roy T Richter (@rtrichter) February 9, 2015…
August 19, 2014 Aram Zucker-Scharff will be walking through PressForward, a Sloan Foundation-funded open-source WordPress plugin designed to help WP users aggregate content across the internet. The plugin collects and archives content from across the web, allowing users to subscribe to RSS feeds, view lists of articles, read them in full, and then discuss and…