The U.S. Department of Labor’s monthly labor-market updates have been driving outsize swings in stocks since the start of 2023, a sign that one of the most closely watched economic-data reports has regained some of the relevance it had ceded to inflation data last year. Since the start of 2023,…

Lockheed Martin Corp. became the latest U.S. issuer to tap the corporate-bond market ahead of any potential market fallout from the U.S. debt-ceiling fight, with a $2 billion offering that priced on Wednesday. The deal has boosted Lockheed’s LMT, -0.01% debt load to close to $20 billion and elevated it…

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The chief of The Richmond Federal Reserve said Tuesday that high inflation probably won’t dissipate quickly barring a sharper slowdown in the U.S. economy. Thomas Barkin said businesses are inclined to keep raising prices so long as there’s strong demand among customers. Demand would have to slow markedly to get…

© Reuters By Maria Ponnezhath and Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday granted a delay of a trial in a lawsuit brought by a Florida city against industrial conglomerate 3M Co over water contamination from toxic “forever chemicals,” after the parties said they were close to a…

(Bloomberg) — Russia would benefit from being transparent in publishing its oil production data as the OPEC+ group, which it leads along with Saudi Arabia, seeks to convince markets that it is pumping at pledged levels, the kingdom’s energy minister said. “We had a discussion with the Russian side regarding…

By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina has signed a deal to renew its currency swap line with China and double the amount it can access to near $10 billion, the South American country’s central bank said in a statement on Friday, a boost to its dwindling foreign currency reserves.…

By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk on Monday hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful, in his second Twitter Spaces event for a 2024 White House candidate. But unlike Republican Ron DeSantis’s glitch-plagued campaign launch on Twitter in May,…

Digital transformation can be intimidating. In many ways, upgrading a company’s technology platform is like trying to get your own body into better shape. Even when we know we need to work out, many of us get put off by the gym bros, weight benches and complicated exercise machines at…

Venture investments into fintechs headquartered in North America dipped to $24.39 billion in 2022, a decline of 34% from the year prior, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s recently released Global Fintech Funding Trends report. After a promising start to the year, funding began a precipitous decline in Q3 as…