by Bloomberg.com | Feb 22, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
A new report found that 52% of students who recently obtained a bachelor’s degree are underemployed and this impacts how money much they’ll make in their careers. Your first job after college is more important than you might think. Roughly 52% of recent college...
by CNN | Feb 22, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Mortgage rates climbed for the third week in a row, inching closer to 7%. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.90% in the week ending February 22, up from 6.77% the previous week, according to data from Freddie Mac released Thursday. A year ago, the average...
by Bloomberg.com | Feb 22, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Canadian consumers sharply pulled back their spending in January after stronger-than-expected retail purchases at the end of last year. Receipts for retailers fell 0.4%, the biggest decline since March 2023, according to an advance estimate from Statistics Canada...
by Bloomberg.com | Feb 22, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Output expanded 0.1% in fourth quarter from previous quarter Mexico has held out against region rate-cutting trend Mexico’s economy barely grew in the fourth quarter, bolstering the chances that the central bank will join the regional trend for interest rate cuts as...
by Variety.com | Feb 22, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
After critics slammed Google‘s “woke” generative AI system, the company halted the ability of its Gemini tool to create images of people to fix what it acknowledged were “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions.” Google’s Gemini, formerly known as...
by CNBC.com | Feb 22, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Google on Thursday said it is pausing its Gemini artificial intelligence image generation feature after saying it offers “inaccuracies” in historical pictures. Users on social media had been complaining that the AI tool generates images of historical figures — like...
