Company credit report supplier Creditsafe recently reported that many Fortune 500 companies are delaying payments to suppliers – a phenomenon that could help make it harder for the economy to emerge from recession. However, there is one bright point: grocery chains have sped up payments to suppliers.
As Creditsafe puts it…
Many investors can’t stomach minor dips in the stock market, according to the latest survey by MagnifyMoney, a LendingTree company, and as evident in the market drops driven by coronavirus fears.
The report revealed 19% of investors said they would
tolerate no more than a 5% market decline…
A key measure of consumer price inflation rose 0.1 percent in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.2 percent in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Over the last 12 months, this measure, (The Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers) increased 2…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the last three months of 2019, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.1 percent. These
numbers are consistent with the post…
Inflation – more precisely The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) — rose 0.4 percent in October on a seasonally adjusted basis after being unchanged in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.8
percent…