BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — After several unexpectedly high inflation readings, Federal Reserve officials concluded at a meeting earlier this month that it would take longer than they previously thought for inflation to cool enough to justify reducing their key interest rate, now at a 23-year high. Minutes of the May 1 meeting, released Wednesday, showed that […]
By Hannah Green After a trial of Lyra Therapeutics Inc.’s drug to treat sinus inflammation failed to meet the goals of a late-stage trial earlier this month, the company is cutting its workforce and looking to sublease its facilities as it hunts for “strategic options.” Lyra (Nasdaq: LYRA) shared in a Tuesday securities filing that it’s laying off 75% of […]
By Erik Sherman According to Newmark, there is now a $2 trillion maturity wall of CRE loans facing banks over the next three years. A dizzying sum. “Banks will be under pressure,” CEO Barry Gosin told the Financial Times. As the FT noted, the brokerage handled $50 billion of loan sales for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation after […]
By Steven Hail For the most part, economists continue to believe a story of money told to generations of students by a series of textbooks over the past 150 years. This story asks us to imagine a pre-monetary barter economy, where people bought goods and services by trading them for other goods and services. Eventually […]
By Thomas Seal The chief of Google’s AI business said that over time the company will spend more than $100 billion developing artificial intelligence technology — another sign of the investing arms race that has gripped Silicon Valley. Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis was asked at a TED conference in Vancouver on Monday about a potential […]
By Ben Casselman The U.S. economy remained resilient early this year, with a strong job market fueling robust consumer spending. The trouble is that inflation was resilient, too. Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, increased at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. That was […]
By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Janine Phakdeetham, and Claire Boston Express Inc., the clothing retailer that’s a staple in US malls, filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself. The company received an offer from brand manager WHP Global and mall landlords Simon Property Group Inc. and Brookfield Properties to purchase the company’s operations and most of its stores, according to a statement on Monday. […]
By Paul Krugman Do you remember the economy of the late 1990s? Or if you’re too young to remember it — I hope that’s true for at least some of my readers — what have you heard about it? You probably remember it as a time of prosperity — low unemployment and rapid economic growth combined […]
By Brooke Sutherland and Sri Taylor Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is seeking to raise commercial property tax rates to help protect homeowners from the brunt of the historic slump in office property values. Wu has submitted a petition for a temporary increase of the city’s tax-rate ceiling for commercial properties relative to residential levies. The proposal aims to redistribute the tax burden […]
By Sam Goldfarb and Nick Timiraos Stubborn inflation pressures persisted in March, derailing the case for the Federal Reserve to begin reducing interest rates in June and raising questions over whether it can deliver cuts this year without signs of an economic slowdown. The consumer-price index, a measure of goods and services prices across the economy, rose 3.5% in […]
