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. This in-kind “tax” was perfectly acceptable to the farming community and it was able to fend off LAW’s legislation for a number of years. Prescient words, those. But not, of course, indefinitely.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The government shutdown was no speed bump, at least, according to the latest job numbers. The numbers, released by the U.S. Yet, there was at least some downward revision to other numbers: December’s previously reported gain of 312,000 positions was reduced to 222,000 net additions. Data released on Friday (Feb.

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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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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

There were 1,964 company insolvencies in December 2022, up 32% compared with December 2021 (1,489) and 76% higher than the number registered three years previously, according to the latest figures from the Insolvency Service. IVA numbers also ranged from around 6,300 to 7,800 per month over the past year.

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Accountancy Today

JULY 15, 2022

Mazars said the figures come in the face of the highest interest rates in 13 years which have made businesses’ debts more expensive to service and has led to an even greater number of indebted businesses falling into insolvency.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The number of Americans who filed for jobless claims increased last week, higher than analysts' predictions, another sign that the nation’s recovery is uneven. The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending Sept. The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending Sept.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The solid labor market supports positive consumer attitudes but that is offset but high inflation and rapid interest rate increases that threaten future economic growth. A deeper and sharper economic contraction becomes more probable if significant declines in payrolls begin to occur. Overall, the outlook remains highly uncertain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

New hiring fell to an all-time low in April as coronavirus lockdowns took a steep toll on economic activity across the United States, according to newly released Department of Labor stats. Still, the harsh numbers were offset somewhat by a big drop in the pace of layoffs, which fell 3.8 Hiring plunged to 3.5 Hiring plunged to 3.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Private sector employment rose by 167,000 in July, but the numbers are a far cry from June, when private-sector employment increased by nearly 2.4 The total was well below Wall Street predictions that the number of new jobs in the private sector would reach one million. ADP found that while June’s payroll was revised upward to 4.3

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. and global economy. and other countries. Top Industries.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Job openings rose in a number of industries, with the largest increases in retail trade (+172,000), health care and social assistance (+146,000), and construction (+90,000),” the agency wrote in the narrative accompanying the announcement. The number of job openings increased in the South and Midwest regions.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sturgeon’s law suggest 300,00 of them are not crap – and that number seems generous. Box We don’t live in objective reality ; in truth, we function in a model of our own construction. We rarely deal with objective reality, instead interacting will all of our artificial constructs. All models are wrong but some are useful.” -Box

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2021

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) company Unanet has rolled out a number of functionalities to add to its platform for architecture and engineering firms (A/E) in addition to government contractors (GovCons), according to a Tuesday (Jan. 5) announcement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“Companies which have helped to provide a bridge to some semblance of normalcy, principally in technology, have seen increased demand for their services,” Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst with Bankrate.com, said in a statement. The total number of Americans claiming benefits for the week ending Aug. 29 totaled just over 29.7

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Future CFO

APRIL 12, 2023

According to the firm, China succeeded in keeping the official number of business insolvencies under control in 2022 (-13% y/y to 7,530 cases) despite a challenging year with multiple lockdowns and a large number of major failures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The states that approved legal sports betting were Maryland, South Dakota and Louisiana, while Virginia approved casino gambling in four locations, Nebraska authorized adding casino games for its horse race tracks, and Colorado added more types and numbers of games allowed at casinos and got rid of some wagering limits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

“These improvements in the labor market reflect the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it,” the U.S. The number of unemployed people fell in October by 1.5 Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. However, employment in government declined.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 8, 2023

Though Fama and French’s study focused on 2 factors (size and value), investment research in the subsequent 30 years has identified hundreds of additional factors that investors can use to adjust their return opportunities and expectations in constructing diversified portfolios. Read More.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

Second, in our zeal to measure risk with numbers, we have lost sight of the reality that the effects of risk are as much on human psyche, as they are on economics. In my experience, much of the risk that we face when valuing companies or analyzing investments is economic uncertainty, impervious to more data and analysis.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Of that number, more than $30 billion in approved PPP loans has been returned or canceled by businesses, a senior administration official told CNBC. Breaking down the loans, the number of companies that received a loan of $50,000 or under was 3.2 million, 67 percent of the total number of contracts. percent; construction, 12.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

That’s a good headline number, though some caution is still in the offing, with online malfeasance spiking even as the total comes down. insolvency spike : Cash flow or lack thereof catches up with firms across retail and construction, and Brexit makes things a bit more uncertain for firms in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The number of food delivery companies increased dramatically in France over the summer while nearly all other industries suffered due to COVID-19, according to the National Council of Clerks. Reuters reported the number of self-employed food delivery workers fueled the unexpected rise in these new companies in June and July.

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. Subsequently, the report touches upon the UK’s current economic environment and TCI’s recent market status. increase which was followed by the construction industry at 1.2%

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

What we’ve seen throughout the pandemic is that the economic fallout from each successive wave of case counts has been smaller and smaller,” said. Still, the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases has disrupted operations at a number of manufacturers, and some companies continue to experience staffing shortages. Christopher Kempczinski.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The hiring slowdown was indicative of employers’ difficulty in finding enough workers, as well as worldwide economic trepidation and lingering effects of the 2018 tax cuts. Construction also had a good month, adding 20,000 workers. Warehousing, transportation and manufacturing all saw their numbers shrink.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The small business financing market is in a unique position: despite market volatility and an economic downturn, funding availability remains strong for SMBs thanks to government funding initiatives. Finance statistics that found a decline in the number of businesses seeking invoice finance “for the first time in many, many years,” she said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

PYMNTS breaks down the numbers behind the latest cases below. It could really damage the economics of a city," said co-author Eric Holzman, assistant professor of accounting at Ohio State. But the BEC scam is not the only kind of business payments fraud plaguing firms today.

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MARCH 17, 2020

The rest of the positions, about 52 million, are at moderate risk — education, retail, construction and manufacturing. Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s ex-chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said that the negative effect on jobs and the economy will be quickly felt.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The relocation has been fast-tracked by the president amid economic concerns. We didn’t discuss specific numbers,” Son told reporters. Construction is slated to start at the end of 2020, and the capital will start its phased relocation in 2024. The transportation system will consist only of electric vehicles.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

15), revealed strong employment gains in the construction, leisure and hospitality and other services spaces for the month of January. Although we saw losses in education and finance, there were strong gains in construction and leisure and hospitality. Data released in ADP’s Canada National Employment Report, published Thursday (Feb.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 13, 2023

While demand has recovered strongly with passenger numbers quickly approaching pre-pandemic levels, driven primarily by pent-up leisure travel demand, airline capacity continues to be constrained by labor shortages and supply chain issues. Meanwhile, hotel construction remains down from its pre-pandemic peak, creating supply constraints.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

Demand for Stanley Black & Decker products surged during the pandemic as consumers spent on home improvement and yard work, but waned last year as high inflation and a murky economic outlook took their toll. Hayes said, noting that Stanley Black & Decker’s stock price has dropped to around $87 from roughly $175 a year earlier.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Activity in the construction industry has also been a bright spot. Even with hiring levels remaining flat on the national level for many small businesses, when monitoring the number of employees being paid, steady growth is being seen, indicating that small businesses are bringing existing employees back to work.”. 30) that the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will publish its advance fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report at the end of February. 28 report will contain one set of GDP numbers based on the data available from BEA’s data suppliers, including the U.S. The report was supposed to be released on Jan.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

In the 2020 National Housing Forecast from Realtor.com , a number of predictions stand out, among them that home price growth will flatten, to a rate of about 80 basis points. In discussion of economic conditions, the report states that global headwinds are gathering to slow GDP growth to a modest 1.7 percent gain in the U.S.

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Future CFO

JUNE 1, 2020

"We expect the Chinese government will continue to provide a broad range of measures by leveraging state-owned sectors to support the economy, to an extent that is significantly larger than the direct fiscal numbers reflect on the government's balance sheet," said Lillian Li, a Moody's Vice President and Senior Credit Officer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

The shockwaves will likely be considerable as the Prompt Payment Directory conglomerate said there has been a 30 percent increase year over year in the number of construction-specific firms staring into the abyss of bankruptcy, as reported last week in Rac. Of that roster, three quarters said they face “severe” financial challenges.

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