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JANUARY 14, 2021

economy posted slight gains in the pandemic year of 2020, after closing the books on what was one of the most dismal economic fallouts in history, according to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report on Wednesday (Jan. Low real estate inventories combined with rising construction costs caused the continued rise of housing market prices.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Late payments are a headache for any industry, but the construction sector has seen some particularly detrimental effects from cash-flow bottlenecks. the collapse of construction conglomerate Carillion pulled back the curtains on the corporate’s B2B payment practices. In the U.K.,

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

The economic recovery since 2020 Private-sector employment has largely returned to pre-pandemic levels across the country, except for the leisure and hospitality sector, which faced large job losses and remains 5.5% State and local lawmakers should seize it. below February 2020 employment levels.

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APRIL 25, 2019

However, according to Keith Holmes, VP of operations at equipment rental platform BigRentz , in the last several years, he has seen a significant shift from the purchasing model to the rental model among the construction companies that use the site. “We’ve seen a big shift. Rental Pains.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 13, 2024

There’s also a large amount of data available on single-family home construction that doesn’t exist (or is much less accessible) for other types of housing. Ten Economic Facts About Rental Housing Source: Brookings Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. ~~~ Still on book leave.

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MAY 10, 2017

The construction industry is a key measure of overall economic strength and can provide unique insight into the financial health of the country overall. With that in mind, FinTechs have begun to pivot towards construction firms in an effort to bolster its financial health. Application approval rates were at 74.5 ”

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

28) concluded that 55 percent of companies in the construction subcontracting industry feel powerless to influence the payment terms of their contracts with larger construction companies. economic health are their biggest hurdles over the next 12 months. ” With small construction subcontractors in the U.K.

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CFO Strategic Partners

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This survey was answered by people from a wide range of industries including construction, professional services, healthcare, nonprofit, manufacturing and more. Eighty percent of survey respondents shared that economic confidence or outside issues may put a cap on their revenue. The post What’s the 2022 economic confidence level?

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Commercial Credit Group

JANUARY 3, 2024

We sat down with CCG's President and CEO, Dan McDonough, to get his insights into this past year in order to help construction, manufacturing, transportation and waste hauling businesses make sense of the economic uncertainty, and prepare for what comes next.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Visit a construction job site and – along with the water coolers, chain link fences, portable toilets and tools – chances are you will come across stacks of papers, including plans, permits and invoices. The cost of late payments in commercial construction runs $40 billion annually, according to one recent industry report.

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JULY 5, 2017

But the legislation isn’t exactly far-reaching: According to reports, the rules focus on small federal contractors that request an increase in compensation by their clients, and on construction companies in particular. Passage of this Bill into law would be a tremendous improvement for construction SBCs,” the publication wrote.

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JUNE 11, 2020

But Lawrence Alan Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council and a top White House advisor, and Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, are among the fiscal conservatives who oppose additional handouts. million as leisure and hospitality, construction, education and health services, and retailers added jobs.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2023

Komatsu supplies mining, construction, earthmoving and utility equipment all industries especially hard hit by power cuts. However, the economic decisions that are made next year, especially around load shedding, are key,” says Ehsaan. In particular, mining and quarrying, and construction saw negative economic growth for 2022.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

The editors have a noble wish that everyone would agree on historical facts, which, they write, “makes constructive dialogue possible.” Whether governments have been involved with markets or not is irrelevant to the argument that economic freedom is central in American history, nor that economic freedom is inseparable from political freedom.

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JULY 2, 2020

Downtowns everywhere from Maine to California are dealing with varying degrees of economic and existential pain as a result of the pandemic, but nowhere is the pain as acute as in college towns. Their economic activity has tended to insulate college towns from the swings of the business cycle,” says a report in The Hill.

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JULY 14, 2020

Manufacturing and construction, for example, are more likely to withstand the economic turmoil than customer service jobs, which are at the mercy of social distancing requirements. There were 7.5 million jobs added in May, but the economy is still 14.7 million jobs short of where it was before the pandemic, WSJ wrote.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • The New Economic Geography of the Housing Shortage : How the Pandemic Accelerated Home Price Increases in America’s Once-Affordable Areas. Apricitas Economics ) see also How Everybody Miscalculated Housing Demand (2021) : The hangover from GFC arrives, and new home construction grinds to a halt.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Ironically, it was during Jefferson’s presidency that the government first embarked upon road construction, with the National Road. Thus did the federal camel get its nose under the road construction tent. Thus, in 1957, the great highway construction project got under way. Prescient words, those.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In doing so, we should criticize the document for the right reasons: those who constructed the EOHLI have ignored or violated the principles for clear thinking that Stanford has developed and championed over the years. Henderson is a Senior Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. Syntex Labs, and NASA. Source link.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Out of what material should it be constructed? Boudreaux is a senior fellow with American Institute for Economic Research and with the F.A. He writes a blog called Cafe Hayek and a regular column on economics for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. What’s the optimal size and shape of the box? Boudreaux and AIER.

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APRIL 16, 2020

Unless people feel safe and secure and confident around the virus, the economic impact will continue in some way, shape or form,” said Solomon during the earnings call, and noted that the strategy is to hope for the better “but plan for the worst.”. So, in a sense, the practice ties into an accounting construct.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

Big Tech’s multi-faceted uses of data generate new economic value, prompting questions on how consumers can be fairly compensated. Data collection by large corporations reveals a range of purposes, ranging from altruism to economic exploitation, and at times resulting in the violation of privacy. Virginia Fournari.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Within the 37,000 addition in goods-producing industries, construction added 20,000, durable-goods manufacturing rose by 11,000, nondurable-goods manufacturing expanded by 3,000, and mining and logging industries added 3,000 (see second chart). Bob has a MA in economics from Fordham University and a BS in business from Lehigh University.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bloomberg ) • The most important chart in the world : It’s tempting to dismiss the whole concept of R* — the supposed “natural” level of interest rates — as yet another pointless theoretical construct by economists suffering from an acute degree of physics envy. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question. (

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CFO News

MAY 24, 2023

this fiscal year thanks to strong credit demand, falling crude oil prices, and increased construction activity, according to V Anantha Nageswaran, a top advisor to the Indian finance ministry. India's economy could expand by 6.5%

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Future CFO

JULY 23, 2023

Weaker-than-expected macro data following a strong Q1 2023 indicates risks to the economic recovery shift toward the downside. And steady EBITDA will mitigate investment risks for chemical and construction companies, the firm added. Utilities and toll road operators will benefit from domestic demand recovery, Moody’s pointed out.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 3, 2024

Global trade is set to rebound modestly after two consecutive years of below-average global GDP growth, said Allianz recently when releasing its Global Economic Outlook 2023-25. Central banks are predicted to pivot earlier than expected by economic forecasters (i.e. Other major predictions by Allianz include the following.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And it was a miserable economic time, with both of these elevated measures together creating a period of unhappy people that the Misery index neatly captured. As Zunbrun observes, “ The Misery Index, as commonly constructed, doesn’t adequately capture how overall economic conditions affect attitudes.”. But what about amplitude?

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 10, 2024

Every document that considers the facts around any particular asset class will invariably include that disclaimer, but constructing a portfolio consisting of a mix of equities, fixed income, and other assets requires investors and advicers to make some fundamental assumptions around long-term expected returns and correlations between assets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

” The massive warehouses are key to Walmart’s developing eCommerce strategy because they enable the company to deliver packages more economically when shipping online orders with multiple items. . “Having said that, choosing to race with Amazon is different than catching up with them.”

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The caveat these days is that a wicked combination of events — falling new home construction post-GFC, the pandemic purchase spree, and the low available inventory have made it more difficult to read into the usual home data. Nowhere is this easier to see than in mortgage rates and their impact on home purchases.

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CFA Institute

JUNE 3, 2022

To test the Sharpe Ratio’s effectiveness, we constructed monthly return distributions for global stock market indices to see if any had too much skewness.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Construction companies need to ensure they can swiftly purchase materials and other supplies to complete their projects and maintain steady cashflows. These strains are prompting more construction firms to turn to faster, digital means of conducting their B2B transactions. How Virtual Cards Help Build Better Construction Pr ocurement.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Until recently, economic central planning from the political right received far less attention than its well-known manifestations on the left. Unfortunately, an emerging faction on the political right has decided to deploy economic planning of their own as an intended countermeasure against their progressive foes.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

The economic recovery is strong. As the recovery progresses, there’s less and less justification for the drumbeat of negative hot takes and gloomy economic speculation from the media. The economic evidence paints a very different picture. The economic evidence paints a very different picture.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 29, 2023

Washington Post ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Neil Dutta , head of economic research at Renaissance Macro Research. The crypto exchange has a network of volunteers known as Binance Angels. The crypto exchange has a network of volunteers known as Binance Angels. Then new tips began pouring in.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Regardless of where fall in the bull/bear spectrum – I have been constructive here – allow me to point out some bullish items you may have overlooked (I’ll discuss bearish concerns next week). as to whether we are in a bull or bear market. I’ve defined markets in the past (see this) so those who want to delve deeper can.

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