Consumers shop for produce at the Whole Foods Market 365 location in Santa Monica, California. Patrick T. Falan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is opening a new whole food store in Brooklyn, but it will not be open to the public. In the first for the company, the entire …
Read More »Home prices suddenly see the biggest gain in 2 years
Exceptionally strong demand, historically low supply and record low mortgage rates combined for the fastest home price growth since 2018. Nationally, house prices in July were 5.5% higher than in 2019. This is a significant increase from the 4.3% annual gain seen in June, according to Corlogic. The onset of …
Read More »Ireland’s Donoho calls on Brexit negotiators to redouble their efforts
Irish Finance Minister Pascal Donoho said the teams negotiating Brexit should redouble their “creativity and commitment” to reach an agreement before the end of the year, as officials and governments are currently plagued by the coronavirus epidemic. Donoho told CNBC on Friday that the importance of the EU-UK negotiations has …
Read More »Mixed in Asia Pacific stocks; Next a private survey of Chinese manufacturing activity
Shares of Asia Pacific were mixed on Tuesday morning as a private survey showed that Chinese manufacturing activity in August has been expanding at its pace for almost 10 years. Mainland Chinese stocks fell, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.16% while the Shenzhen component fell 0.448%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng …
Read More »Stock futures flat after the S&P 500 and the best August since the 1980s
A man walks through a street charging bull on March 24, 2020, in New York, USA. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Stock futures were flat in trading overnight on Monday after Wall Street recorded its fifth consecutive month of growth. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial …
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