Josh Schafer – Reporter Wed, May 24, 2023 Wall Street has been waiting for a recession that hasn’t materialized roughly five months into the year. Executives at S&P 500 companies are talking about recessions less on earnings calls for the third straight quarter, per FactSet. S&P Global’s flash US composite PMI showed US economic output reached a 13-month high […]
By: Paul Bubny The Green Street Commercial Property Price Index decreased by 0.1% in April. The index, which tracks the pricing of institutional-quality commercial real estate, has fallen by 15% since property prices peaked a year ago. “Prospective sellers may refuse to accept it, but that doesn’t change the fact that the bid price […]
By Steve Matthews and Matthew Boesler Two Federal Reserve officials signaled they favored pausing interest-rate increases, while a third policymaker said the central bank’s task in subduing inflation was not complete. “We at the Federal Reserve probably have more work to do on our end to try to bring inflation back down,” Minneapolis Fed President […]
By Kate King A growing number of retailers in city office districts are relocating their businesses to the suburbs, where visits to shopping centers are on the rise as fewer people commute to downtown workplaces. With average office usage rates still only around half of where they stood before the pandemic in many major cities, many bars, restaurants and other […]
Consumers barely kept up with inflation in April, as retail sales increased but fell short of expectations, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. The advanced sales report showed an increase of 0.4%, below the Dow Jones estimate for 0.8%. Excluding auto-related figures, sales increased 0.4%, which was in line with expectations. As the numbers are not adjusted for […]
By Greg Ryan Consigli Construction Co. last week topped off a nine-story lab building under development from CV Properties and Cannon Hill Capital Partners in Somerville’s Union Square. Boynton Gateway, as the 336,000-square-foot project located at 495 Columbia St. is known, is one of several lab projects at various stages of development in the neighborhood. Union […]
By James McCown CAMBRIDGE — “In the city there must be regularity and fantasy, relationships and oppositions, and casual and unexpected elements to vary the scene,” wrote Marc-Antoine Laugier, an 18th-century Jesuit and arguably the world’s first architecture critic, having penned the seminal Essai Sur l’Architecture in 1753. His advice holds true today. Cities must be […]
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, inland and coastal waterways have been leveraged by UltraTech Cement Limited, the cement flagship company of Aditya Birla Group (ABG), to transport phosphogypsum consignment. The consignment of 57,000 metric tons (MT) of phosphogypsum was transported in a bulk cargo carrier from Paradeep port in Odisha and reached the jetty […]
David R. Baker (Bloomberg) — Startup Electric Hydrogen Co. plans to open its first factory for making electrolyzers — the machines at the heart of a future green hydrogen economy – in Massachusetts. It’s the latest in a wave of clean-tech manufacturing projects announced across the US. The company, backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy […]
