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Indonesia's Economic Growth Beats Expectations -- Update
Southeast Asia's largest economy expanded 5.47% from a year earlier, accelerating from 5.29% growth in the second quarter, data from the country's statistics agency showed Thursday. That beat the median forecast of 5.18% growth in a Wall Street…
Fuel price shock: Why developing economies are paying the most at the pump
Economic Development When war shut the Strait of Hormuz in February, oil prices soared everywhere. But the pain at the pump has been far from equal, and the world's developing economies are paying the heaviest price, according to a new report from…
Why Trust, Not Talent, Is The Real Bottleneck In The Gig Economy
Vitalii Mikhailov is Founder & CEO of EasyStaff.io. 17+ years in finance & IT. Helping companies hire and pay remote teams worldwide. For the past few years, the dominant story about the gig economy has centered on supply: how many skilled…
What Democrats' midterm win means for US economy, global markets
Democrats' takeover of Congress in the midterm elections will send ripples through key US economic and global-market themes, including artificial intelligence sector, US interest rates and the war with Iran. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The…
The New Trust Economy: Authentic Brands For Humans And AI Agents
Dani Mariano, Chief Executive Officer of Razorfish. Today, marketers aren't just influencing people anymore. We're increasingly influencing the machines helping people make decisions. Generative AI has transformed how consumers discover new brands…
NORC Study: Voters look to 2028 focused on the economy
After the midterm elections, attention will turn to the 2028 race for the White House. What is on voters' minds as they look ahead to the next presidential election? Most Republicans want the next president to follow President Donald Trump's…
After the US midterms, what will a lame duck Trump mean for the global economy?
Donald Trump's loss of control of the House of Representatives and the Senate has put the world economy on notice for an unpredictable final two years of his presidential term. After Democrats swept aside his Republican party in the midterm…
The economy brought Trump back to power. Now it's his downfall
Democrats had a stunning showing in Tuesday's midterm election, flipping battleground congressional seats and reliably Republican governorships alike. The CNBC Voter Poll showed voters were unhappy with the economy and President Donald Trump's…
Democrats' Midterm Blowout a Referendum on Trump's Trade, Economic Policies
In a stunning and swift repudiation of the federal government's agenda on the economy and trade over the past 22 months, Tuesday's midterm voters co-signed a Democratic stampede into the halls of Congress in January. The “blue wave”…
Will Trump's midterms wipeout hit Australia's already shaky economy?
That was Donald Trump's bizarrely upbeat summation yesterday of the politically devastating war in Iran, just before the brutal verdict of US mid-term voters began rolling in. 'We seem to be getting everything we want,' the president told the…
Peak satire as Indonesia's economy goes into the deep-fryer
Peak satire was achieved last week when Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto rolled out his brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, to lecture investors about the crisis engulfing the Indonesian Stock Exchange. Hashim, whose huge wealth helped Subianto…
This unspoken tradition is stalling our economy. But is it really so bad?
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. You've used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month. There's an annual tradition that occurs only in…
The RBA says there is 'excess demand' in the economy. Households doing it tough might disagree | Greg Jericho
On Tuesday this week came the biggest news regarding inflation. No, not the Reserve Bank's decision to raise interest rates ; that will do barely anything (although it will most certainly raise unemployment). No, the most important news for…
Even McDonald's is hit by the brutal economic crunch bleeding US wallets
The nation's largest burger chain is slipping. McDonald's U.S. sales dropped 0.2 percent from July to September, marking the first such decline since early 2025, according to an earnings report released Wednesday. CEO Chris Kempczinski said the…
Even McDonald's is hit by the brutal economic crunch bleeding US wallets
McDonald's said U.S. same-store sales slipped 0.2% in the July-September period, the first retreat for the Chicago burger giant since early 2025. The decline was not as steep as Wall Street had feared; analysts had braced for a 0.5% drop. The…
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