Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images With considerable uncertainty about what the Federal Reserve will do at its meeting this week, respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey are forecasting a more gradual approach to rate cuts than is currently priced into markets. The survey shows 84% of the 27 respondents, including economists, fund managers and…
Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing announced sweeping cost cuts Monday, including a hiring freeze, a pause on nonessential staff travel and a reduction on supplier spending to preserve cash as it deals with…
Union members hold picket signs during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM District 751 Main Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing CFO Brian West said the labor strike that began just after midnight Friday will hurt aircraft…
Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing‘s factory workers walked off the job after midnight on Friday, halting production of the company’s bestselling airplanes after staff overwhelmingly rejected a new labor contract. It’s a costly…
A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is assembled at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington, on June 25, 2024. Jennifer Buchanan | Afp | Getty Images Boeing workers are voting on a new labor contract Thursday, setting up the potential for a crippling strike that the company’s CEO said would jeopardize the struggling plane-maker’s recovery. The tentative agreement that…
Daniel Pinto, president and chief operating officer of JPMorgan Chase, speaks during the Semafor 2024 World Economy Summit in Washington, DC, on April 18, 2024. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase shares fell 5% on Tuesday after the bank’s president told analysts that expectations for net interest income and expenses in 2025 were too optimistic. While…
A Boeing employees works outside of the cockpit of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane in the company’s factory, on March 27, 2019 in Renton, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Boeing and the union that represents some 33,000 of its workers have struck a new labor deal, just days before a costly strike could have begun at the…
The explosive rise of pickleball has at least one major beneficiary: Life Time Group Holdings . According to Bank of America analyst Alexander Perry, the upscale fitness and lifestyle company is set to reap the rewards of the continued surge in popularity of pickleball , a sport which exploded during the Covid lockdown and has continued to attract more…
The August jobs report came in weaker than expected, and employment growth by different industries showed a mixed bag for the U.S. economy. The growth was led by leisure and hospitality and health care and social assistance, with each category adding more than 40,000 jobs, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If private education is included…
The U.S. economy created slightly fewer jobs than expected in August, reflecting a slowing labor market while also clearing the way for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates later this month. Nonfarm payrolls expanded by 142,000 during the month, up from 89,000 in July and below the 161,000 consensus forecast from Dow Jones, according to a report Friday…