Canada – A Calm Week Before the Inflation Test Canadian financial markets were relatively steady this week, though rising bond yields signaled a modest firming in rate expectations. In the absence of major domestic data, Read more…
Next week’s release of the April FOMC minutes will shed light on how members of the committee saw the Fed’s next move as balanced between a hike and a cut. U.S. housing data, meanwhile, point Read more…
Rising gas prices may have some consumers on edge, but car buyers haven’t yet changed their buying habits, according to General Motors CEO Mary Barra. In March, the median lower-income household spent 4.2% of its Read more…
While Coca-Cola and PepsiCo remain the titans of the beverage industry, they now face significantly increased competion for consumers. Energy drinks and functional beverages now fight for shelf space alongside traditional sodas. In addition, Keurig Read more…
April’s inflation report on Tuesday will be closely watched as the surge in oil prices from conflict in the Middle East continues to drive up gas prices. We expect headline inflation to rise to 3.1% Read more…
Boeing has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for almost four decades. As one of just 30 American stocks in one of the most widely followed bellwether indexes in the world, it Read more…
Silver hit an all-time high of $121.64 on January 29. By May 14, it was trading at $84, having briefly cleared $87 the day before on US-China tariff optimism before April CPI data pulled it Read more…
Lately, oil and oil politics have had a bad habit of making us all feel miserable. Like we may continue to do all weekend. Crude oil jumped sharply, ending the week up 8% or more, Read more…
The tech sector’s relentless restructuring wave has claimed another major player, pushing 2026’s total workforce reductions to a grim milestone, as companies continue to reallocate capital towards automated systems. GitLab, an open-source web platform crucial Read more…
The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to Read more…