Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real justification for research investment is what we get for our ...

The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, the personal-consumption expenditures price index, is due out at 8:30 a.m.

Consumer prices rose 2.7% over the year in August as measured by PCE inflation, up from 2.6% in July, while "core" prices ...

Victoria, BC, Sept. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced new measures to protect, build and transform Canadian strategic industries, including support for reskilling ...

The proposals could make it easier to build housing in New York City, but the City Council is trying to keep them off the November ballot. By Mihir Zaveri A new political action committee in New York ...

Heavy soil sealing combined with insufficient retention and infiltration (seepage) potentially increases the risk of pollution and flooding in cities during heavy rainfall. Sustainable, decentralized ...

President John Dramani Mahama has addressed recent fluctuations in the value of the Ghanaian cedi, outlining steps his government is taking to stabilise the currency and protect the economy. Speaking ...

TL;DR: Half-Life 3, codenamed "HLX," remains in active development with Valve focusing on gameplay mechanics, vehicle and particle systems, enemy AI, and significant optimization efforts. Recent ...

Where China once relied primarily on informal measures, its approach has gradually evolved into a more institutionalized and complex set of tools. Economic leverage has become an increasingly ...

The Rand Merchant Bank (RMB)/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Business Confidence Index (BCI) again declined, by one point, to 39 for the third quarter. This follows a five-point decline in the ...

The U.S. benefits from strong economic fundamentals, yet it faces two challenges: an unsustainable fiscal trajectory and unacceptably high inflation. Elevated long-term interest rates reflect growing ...

When flooding strikes, it can devastate vast areas, taking lives, homes and possessions with it. Multiple factors affect the scale of the social and economic damage that flooding causes, such as ...