by admin | Oct 7, 2022 | Finance, Investment Tips, job market, Politics, Retail, society
Bricks-and-mortar store owners are emerging from the pandemic with surprising strength, posting some of their best numbers in years and plotting expansions as more Americans venture out to buy things again. U.S. retail vacancy fell to 6.1% in the second quarter, the...
by admin | Oct 4, 2022 | Finance, Market Updates, Politics, society
By Prashant Gopal October 3, 2022 at 12:01 AM EDTUpdated onOctober 3, 2022 at 8:59 AM EDT Home prices in the US have taken a turn and are now posting the biggest monthly declines since 2009. Median home prices fell 0.98% in August from a month earlier, following a...
by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Finance, job market, Local News, Office, Politics, society
Last year, Massachusetts was ranked among the top 15 states for business by CNBC. This year, the state dropped down from 14th to 24th. Each year, CNBC creates its America’s Top States for Business list by scoring all 50 states on 88 metrics in 10 broad categories of...
by admin | Sep 30, 2022 | Politics, society
By Arianne Cohen September 28, 2022 at 12:12 PM EDT When employees can slash their traditional five-day workweek to four days, they tend to allocate their new free time to one surprising activity: sleep. Workers who shifted to 32-hour workweeks logged 7.58 hours per...
by admin | Sep 29, 2022 | Finance, Local News, Politics, society
For more than a month, the campaign championing a special tax on the wealthy has blasted TV airwaves with a simple message: “They pay less and we pay more.” “They” are the people who earn more than $1 million a year, as one ad intones and pans to a shot of a...
by admin | Sep 28, 2022 | Development, Industrial, job market, Local News, Politics, society, sustainability
Lumber prices have fallen to their lowest level in more than two years, bringing two-by-fours back to what they cost before the pandemic building boom and pointing to a sharp slowdown in construction. Lumber futures ended Tuesday at $429.30 per thousand board feet,...
