by Yahoo.com | Aug 5, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
For much of the past 19 months, professional and everyday investors have enjoyed a hair-raising bull market rally. Since the start of 2023, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and...
by Yahoo.com | Jul 29, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
They’re not lovin’ it. McDonald’s global same-stores fell for the first time in nearly four years in the second quarter as inflation-weary consumers skipped eating out or chose cheaper options. The company said it’s working on fixes, like meal...
by Yahoo.com | Jun 21, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
US stocks mostly finished in the red Friday as a tech-led rally showed real signs of fatigue for the first time in over a week. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) both lost about 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)...
by Yahoo.com | Jun 5, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
The pay gap between job stayers and job changers narrowed in May in the latest sign that the US labor market is cooling from a hot start to 2024. New data from ADP released Wednesday showed that the median year-over-year pay increase for job switchers fell to 7.8% in...
by Yahoo.com | Jun 4, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Job openings fell in April to their lowest level since February 2021 as the labor market shows further signs of cooling off from the hiring boom that followed the US economy reopening after the pandemic. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday...
