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Jobless claims fall to lowest level since mid-May Jobless claims stay low in latest week Consumer credit growth soars in December U.S. productivity slows down in fourth quarter while unit labor costs accelerate Beyond to buy rights to Buy Buy Baby brand and reunite it with Bed Bath & Beyond Trump asks Supreme Court to pause TikTok ban Amazon says it had best-ever Thanksgiving Holiday week with record sales and number of items sold U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine Charter Communications announces buyout deal for Liberty Broadband at terms above its previous proposal General Motors unveils new all-electric Cadillac called the Vistiq with 300-mile range Vestas Wind Systems stock slumps as company says margins to be at low end of guidance Burberry shares rise on report Moncler could bid for it Kazatomprom reports 17% increase in production during the third quarter Anheuser-Busch InBev shares slip as sales come up shy of estimates Wingstop’s stock slides 12% after profit falls short of estimates Novartis hikes sales and profit guidance for the year Plus500 says it will meet expectations after quarterly revenue climbs 11%Trainline boosts guidance for the second time this year Barclays reports 18% profit rise as it lifts income guidance London Stock Exchange Group says income grew, led by Tradeweb Nobel economics prize awarded to three who studied wealth of nations Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors DirecTV to acquire EchoStar’s video distribution business including Dish TV and Sling TV Moody’s places all of Boeing’s ratings on review for a downgrade Microsoft to lay off 650 people from videogame business: WSJ ArcBest misses profit expectations, as soft rate environment weighed on revenue Alibaba stock climbs on report of vendor service fee increase European stocks open lower after weak Wall Street finish, computer outages Wholesale inventories in U.S. rise 0.1% in April Hibbett shares fall as Q1 sales miss analysts’ estimate

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March 15, 2024	GAO Challenges DOT's Criteria, Multimodal Project Grants	The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an impartial, nonpartisan organization that audits the functioning of governmental agencies and provides reports to Congress for evaluation. Recentl ...Read more
February 22, 2021	New Study Shows Unionized Construction Sites are Safer	The institute also looked at lost-time injury claims, which is when physicians recommend workers refrain from engaging in regular job duties due to injuries. Rates were 31 percent less frequent in ...Read more
February 17, 2021	The Biggest Construction Companies of 2021	The U.S. is the second largest construction market in the world following China. While commercial construction may be slumping due to the pandemic, some big firms may still have subcontracting oppo ...Read more
December 30, 2020	US Business Registration Up 82 Percent But it May Mostly be Glorified Gig Work	A new report shows that business formation applications in the United States are up 82 percent in the three months leading up to September in comparison to the same months in 2019, reflecting a tre ...Read more
December 9, 2020	US Cuts Tariffs on Exceptionally Expensive Canadian Lumber in Half	The U.S. Commerce Department seems to have followed the age-old adage “measure twice, cut once” in its decision earlier this month to reduce tariffs on Canadian lumber from 20 percent to 9 perc ...Read more