The U.S. economy added a disappointing 130,000 in August, the Labor Department said Friday, heightening fears that President Trump’s trade war is starting to bite and the U.S. economy is hitting a rough patch. Economists had predicted 160,000 job gains in …
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“The bottom line is that payroll growth is slowing and that is a worrying trend,” Torsten Slok, chief economist at Deutsche Bank said on Bloomberg
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New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday that her office is launching an antitrust investigation into Facebook, kicking off a bipartisan wave of independent state investigations targeting the company as well as Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
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Delaying an initial public offering is demoralizing for employees, frustrating for fee-seeking bankers and lawyers, and disappointing for investors. It’s also probably what WeWork should do. WeWork — technically known as The We Company — is talking with …
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“The sun is clearly not shining on the British high street,” the chief economist of the U.K.’s top watchdog–the rather grand sounding Confederation of British Industry (CBI)–gave a clear weather warning on the dismal summer retail figures. But to look out the …
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