New Zealand’s concrete production slipped to the lowest level in more than 10 years as cooling economic growth and global uncertainty curb home construction and investment in new commercial buildings https://t.co/9Ixjln8OlW ...

The industry helps drive economic growth. Housing employs a lot of people and homes are a slug of many families’ net worth. It is worth watching to see where the economy is heading https://t.co/QGKsXdlAfL ...

High-risk trades surged again this week, resuming the dizzying ascent that has defied a host of signals casting doubt on the staying power of economic growth https://t.co/quY7I9JzBA ...

You can of course argue with the Edelman numbers[1] for any given jurisdiction. For example, I am skeptical about their stats for Nigeria and Kenya.However, their numbers do track both (a) the GDP figures[2] and (b) the visible improvement on the ground in places like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, India, and China.In general, the big picture is that the former first world is now mostly the descending world. While much of the former third world is now the ascending world. There are some exceptions, but that’s the ...

Trump’s Fed nominee would add a voice inside the central bank that is explicitly critical of the conventional wisdom around how tariffs might affect inflation and economic growth https://t.co/qiCXTuybKW ...

Welcome to Yahoo Finance's flagship show, The Morning Brief. I'm Julie Hyman. Let's get to the three things you need to know today.First up, US stock futures pointing to gains at the open. And the NASDAQ composite set to open at a new record high. It's the top performer this week, up nearly 3%.Even with the flurry of tariff headlines over the week, markets took it in stride, as they have been. But Bank of America's Michael Hartnett warning that investors are preparing for a pullback. In a new note, he says ...

What do you think about Friday was a whole mess of crazy news, starting with the jobs number, but then firing the BLS chief And yeah, how bad is the labor situation. So we felt and I've been saying for some time that hiring is down to stall speed. That's been true, I think, for the last few months.The reason the unemployment rate is so low is not that businesses are are firing. They're not, but they're not hiring either. And so and we're losing labor supply because of the immigration policies.So I agree wit ...

Japan cut its growth forecast for the current fiscal year as US tariffs and persistent inflation weigh on the economy, complicating the policy course of the Bank of Japan https://t.co/WXDrFv8ssA ...

Serbia’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged for an 11th month with growing inflation risks taking precedence over weaker economic growth https://t.co/Kwke6sYOqa ...

We've been speaking with top economists to better understand what this economic climate means for companies' bottom lines. Today, I'm speaking with Harvard professor Carmen Reinhart. Hi, Professor.Thanks so much for taking the time to talk with me today. Thank you for having me. Great.Alright, I want to start generally: what's the biggest threat to U.S. economic growth right now. Uncertainty. And uncertainty covers a lot of ground, right.We have policy uncertainty from all angles, whether it's tariffs, ther ...