Month: May 2022

Thomas Barwick | Digitalvision | Getty Images Retirees have rejoined the labor force at a steady clip in recent months, attracted by a hot job market and reduced Covid health risks. This “un-retirement” trend could help increase the available pool of workers and ease the hiring challenges businesses have reported. As of April, 3.3% of
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Pending home sales slipped in April as contract activity decreased for the sixth consecutive month, the National Association of Realtors reported. Only the Midwest saw signings increase month-over-month, while the other three major regions reported declines. Each of the four regions registered a drop in year-over-year contract activity. The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a
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Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO, at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 25th, 2022. Adam Galici | CNBC Pfizer‘s CEO said Wednesday that he “wouldn’t worry much” about a recent monkeypox outbreak that has seen cases surge in non-endemic countries. Albert Bourla told CNBC that current data on the disease suggests it doesn’t transmit as
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Iryna Imago | Istock | Getty Images Many adult children are “boomeranging” and moving back in with their parents amid high rents and home prices, a new survey from financial services company Thrivent finds. About 40% of parents reported they currently have an adult child living with them. Meanwhile, 25% of parents said an adult
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The editors of Bloomberg recently published a series of editorials on America’s impending “retirement crisis,” which they assert could “under reasonable assumptions … overwhelm state budgets across the country” as impoverished seniors increasingly rely on government handouts to survive. Scary stuff, if true. In fact, the assumptions driving these frigthening claims are anything but reasonable.
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The Kremlin towers and Ivan the Great Cathedral in Moscow. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Images The Biden administration will ban Russia’s government from paying bondholders through American banks starting Wednesday morning, the Treasury Department said. The move increases the odds that Russia will default on its outstanding debt. It is the latest sanction
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