Economy in Brief

The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil at $26.08 per barrel yesterday improved versus an average $21.72 last week. The price was roughly two-thirds lower y/y. The price of Brent crude oil rose to $33.08 per barrel yesterday [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that total the job openings rate slipped to 4.3% during February from 4.4% in January. The rate is openings as a percent of total employment plus openings. These figures remained below the 4.8% [...]

We are clearly in a mode of watching numbers and waiting for another shoe to drop. Data through February for the most part are still normal economic data with the usual monthly ebb and flow of trend. There is even a touch of rebound [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that total the job openings rate slipped to 4.3% during February from 4.4% in January. The rate is openings as a percent of total employment plus openings. These figures remained below the 4.8% [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that total the job openings rate slipped to 4.3% during February from 4.4% in January. The rate is openings as a percent of total employment plus openings. These figures remained below the 4.8% [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that total the job openings rate slipped to 4.3% during February from 4.4% in January. The rate is openings as a percent of total employment plus openings. These figures remained below the 4.8% [...]

U.K. consumer sentiment recorded its biggest fall since records began in January 1974 as policy steps taken to curb the spread of coronavirus weighed on households. The GfK consumer sentiment gauge has plunged in March, but the [...]

The Industrial Materials Price Index from the Foundation for International Business and Economic Research (FIBER) declined 14.3% during the four weeks ended Friday and 20.5% over the last year. The price index fell to the lowest level [...]