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SOURCE: International Business Times

The nation's central bank should get inflation right and stop raising interest rates. That's the consensus among several experts the International Business Times contacted following the release of the September Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of the cost of living across the nation and a critical input into the Fed's inflation monitoring and decision to set monetary policy.

SOURCE:  U.S. News and World Report

For months now, inflation has been steadily trending down to a 3% level after hitting 9% last summer. But that positive story is about to get a jolt this week as the consumer price index is expected to show monthly inflation rose by 0.6% in August, up from 0.2% from a month earlier. 

SOURCE: CFO.com

We’ve all feared a debt crisis for years as private and public debt hit record levels. The situation has undoubtedly worsened after the COVID-19 pandemic as corporations benefited from plentiful state-guaranteed loans and low-interest rates to strengthen their cash flows.

SOURCE: Baltimore Business Journal

Allianz Trade had a short list of potential office space that included Harbor Point and Baltimore Peninsula as the global risk insurance firm sought to move from Owings Mills this year.

SOURCE: CFO

Does your company’s forward plan require adjustment for 2023’s second half? After all, the U.S. economy surprised both investors and economists in the first six months of 2023, and the recession braced for has yet to materialize. Unemployment is not budging from historic lows, and credit defaults appear contained. The term “soft landing” has even re-entered analysts’ vocabularies.

SOURCE:  U.S. News & Report

The June jobs report underperformed for a change, standing in contrast to other recent readings of the employment market, the Labor Department reported on Friday.

SOURCE: Marketplace Radio

Some economists have been warning about the prospect of a recession as the Fed continues to tap the brakes on the economy to fight inflation.

SOURCE: Market Watch

The U.S. economy is still adding lots of new jobs, but a strong labor market does appear to be fraying around the edges.

SOURCE: CFO Dive

Business insolvencies worldwide are likely to jump year-over-year in 2023, with a bigger spike projected in the U.S. alone, according to recent analysis from Allianz Trade, a unit of the Allianz Group insurance giant.

SOURCE: Insurance Business Canada

Allianz Trade in Canada, the country’s largest private trade credit insurance provider, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2023. Since opening its doors in 1923, the company has steered through numerous historical events and 13 major recessions. It has protected its customers from losses related to the bankruptcies of large Canadian firms such as Eaton’s in 1999 and Target Canada in 2015.

SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report

The Federal Reserve increased interest rates by a quarter point on Wednesday, firmly in line with market expectations while also affirming that the banking system is “sound and resilient.

SOURCE: Marketplace

The February jobs report from the Labor Department will be closely scrutinized by Fed policymakers, economists, and investors for any hints that the job market is slowing and inflationary pressures from wages are easing.

SOURCE: FEI Daily

It’s no secret that Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has exploded in the B2C space over the past few years. However, only few have a comprehensive grasp on what it is, its implications, and what we can expect to see in the future. To truly understand the current B2B BNPL landscape, it's crucial to consider the trends in both consumer finance and business credit offerings.

SOURCE: International Business Times

The U.S. economy is still growing. Americans find it easy to get jobs. The unemployment rate hovers at a 50-year low. Yet, half of Americans feel worse rather than better off.

SOURCE: U.S. NEWS

The government issued its advance estimate of the nation’s economic output for the fourth quarter of 2022.

The report on the gross domestic product will likely show the economy grew at an annual pace somewhere around 2.6% or so, down from 3.2% in the third quarter. The Federal Reserve’s campaign to arrest inflation by raising interest rates is working and the consequences of the higher borrowing costs are a slowing economy that will reflect in the GDP data.

SOURCE:  The Hill

The Federal Reserve is on track to issue another massive rate hike Wednesday before slowing down the pace of its battle to fight inflation.