BoC will 'likely' cut rates by 50bps amid 'below-potential GDP growth': Citi Canada’s economy grew at a below-potential pace in the third quarter, increasing the likelihood of the Bank of Canada (BoC) cutting interest rates by 50 basis points in December, Citi analyst said in ... 11/29/2024 - 5:56 am | View Link
GDP grew at 2.8% rate in third quarter, revision shows The economy grew at a 2.8% annual rate in the third quarter of this year, just under the 3% rate the quarter before, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Wednesday morning in a second estimate of ... 11/27/2024 - 12:32 am | View Link
China’s GDP forecast cut as Trump trade worries take hold before new term Though Donald Trump has not yet taken office, his expected tariff increases have led S&P Global Ratings to cut growth projections for China. 11/25/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
A brief history of China’s economic growth While the average growth rate of real GDP between 1978-2012 has been an impressive 9.4%, that figure could decline to between 7-8% between 2012-2024 in the authors’ base case. This is significantly higher than most commentators believe is likely given clear signs of a slowing economy in China’s recent economic data. Here are their projections: 11/29/2024 - 11:30 am | View Website
Which are the world’s biggest economies by GDP? | World Economic Forum Only 16 economies had a GDP higher than $1 trillion, with the US by far the biggest economy at more than $21 trillion – making up just under a quarter of the global total of almost $88 trillion. China was the second largest at more than $14 trillion and Japan was in third place with just over $5 trillion. 11/28/2024 - 5:05 am | View Website
What will global GDP look like in 2030? | World Economic Forum In 2015 in Africa, the average GDP per person was $20,000 less than the global average, at around $4,000. The ERS International Macroeconomic Data Set shows that the average GDP per person in the United States for 2015 was more than $50,000. 11/27/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Website
China: $1.9 Trillion Boost and 88 million Jobs by 2030 Possible with ... China is well-placed to lead the transition to a new global green economy with lasting impact Read the full report in English and Mandarin Geneva, Switzerland, 17 January 2022 – Nearly $9 trillion, two-thirds of China’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is at risk of disruption from nature loss. 11/27/2024 - 9:09 am | View Website
China's economic growth story recapped | World Economic Forum By the time Deng Xiaoping made the sweeping decision to open up China’s economy to the outside world in 1978, the poverty rate had been cut to about 40%. Roughly four decades later, the World Bank pegged China’s rate at 0.1% - compared with 9.7% globally. 11/27/2024 - 2:57 am | View Website
A tethered mosquito approaches the web in the path of release of the cone, and triggers web release response. Credit: S. I. Han and T. A. Blackledge, 2024.
A tethered mosquito approaches the web in the path of release of the cone, and triggers web release response. Credit: S. I.
Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results.
The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia about 23,000 years ago. But for thousands of years after that split, the line between wolf and dog wasn’t quite clear-cut.
NEW YORK — Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the U. S. but was unknown to millions of the people his decisions affected.
Then Wednesday’s fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in a targeted killing on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk thrust the executive and his business into the national spotlight.
Thompson, who was 50, ran the insurance arm of the giant UnitedHealth Group Inc.
A suburban roofing company that has repeatedly faced the ire of federal safety regulators has been hit with more citations for putting workers at risk of falls, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday.
OSHA said it was the eighth time it has cited Lake Zurich-based Fino Exterior Inc. since 2020.
The Springs at Monarch Landing in Naperville is among the best nursing homes in the country, according to a recent report from Newsweek.
In September, Newsweek released its list for America’s Best Nursing Homes of 2025. The ranking recognizes 1,050 of the country’s top nursing homes. Honorees include The Springs at Monarch Landing, which came in as the No.
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a "12 days of OpenAI" period starting December 5, which will unveil new AI features and products for 12 consecutive weekdays.
Altman did not specify the exact features or products OpenAI plans to unveil, but a report from The Verge about this "12 days of shipmas" event suggests the products may include a public release of the company's text-to-video model Sora and a new "reasoning" AI model similar to o1-preview.