A measure of prices paid to US producers was unchanged in September, restrained by declines in gasoline, suggesting further progress toward tamer inflation. The producer price index for final demand was flat from August after rising 0.2% in the prior month, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report out Friday. From a year ago,…
A turbulent five days for markets, featuring rising tensions in the Middle East and a port strike that both started and stopped, was capped off by a better-than-expected September jobs report that helped stocks close marginally up on the week. For the first week of October the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.2%, while the Nasdaq…
To the unsuspecting outsider, Beixiazhu looks like any unremarkable Chinese village. But for years, this was the place to be for ambitious merchants hoping to strike gold in the country’s booming live-streaming e-commerce industry – until the competition simmered to a boil, driving out sellers as quickly as they arrived. The frenzy began around 2019,…
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