Senate confirms Bessent as Treasury secretary in bipartisan vote
The Senate voted 68-29 on Monday to confirm Bessent, who was President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Global GDP Faces 50% Loss Without Climate Change Action, Study Finds
Dr. Jesse Abrams from the University of Exeter said we are “grossly underestimating risk due to climate change and ...
Looking for 'serious signs' that Chinese government is trying to boost domestic consumption: Capital Economics
Thomas Mathews, head of markets for Asia-Pacific at Capital Economics, says that it will be "very, very hard" for China to ...
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Rebasing GDP, CPI based on UN fundamental principles – NBS
The Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive of the National Bureau of Statistics, Semiu Adeyemi, has ...
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Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.
A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the ...
Don’t expect rate cut by Fed in January
The US economy remained at a comfortable cruising speed in the final stretch of 2024, powered by healthy consumer spending ...
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7 charts that explain why Americans are unhappy with the economy
Some statistics illustrate why Americans still feel crunched even though traditional metrics make economic conditions seem ...
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UA economist Mervin Jebaraj provides direction on the state of the economy
Jobs are growing, unemployment is low, gross domestic product is strong, and consumer spending is healthy. Arkansas’ economy is booming, right? Yes and no. That’s according to University of ...
Nigeria to rebase GDP and inflation data by month-end, stats office says
Nigeria plans to rebase its gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation data by the end of the month to capture changes in ...
Canada November retail sales flat; likely up 1.6% in December
Canada's retail sales were flat in November as consumers purchased less from supermarkets, grocery stores, alcohol outlets and furniture shops but the numbers were buoyed by car sales, data showed on ...