Amazon Launches A Site Just For Small Businesses…And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
In another management shake-up at Middleton-based Spectrum Brands, two of the company’s top executives are being replaced by a top official of HRG Group, the New York holding company that merged with Spectrum Brands earlier this year.
HONG KONG: A shock jump in Hong Kong’s currency is signalling a decade-long liquidity party is finally coming to an end. That may be bad news for the city’s housing market.
Swiss voters have roundly rejected two proposals aimed at giving the country’s farmers greater protection and ensuring that food from both domestic and foreign producers is healthier.
Only 96 people are included in the first cohort of borrowers of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
Move comes after U.S. announces to tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods
China scotched trade talks with the U.S. that were planned for the coming days, according to people briefed on the matter, further dimming prospects for resolving a trade battle between the world’s two largest economies.
But parents shouldn’t panic, experts say
The new round of tariffs President Donald Trump announced Monday could hit new parents where it hurts, with cribs, bassinets, diaper bags and other infant products all on the list of products that would be affected, manufacturers say. This latest round of tariffs would impose a 10% tax starting Sept. 24 on $200 billion in Chinese products and would increase to 25% in January 2019.
Fewer than 10% of households in the Carolinas had federal flood insurance, according to estimates
Most homeowners whose properties were in the path of Hurricane Florence’s torrential rains would have been better off if their home had been hit by a wildfire or volcanic eruption — at least from an insurance perspective.
These are trying times for the “Fed Model”. This is not necessarily a problem for the Federal Reserve, and perhaps should not be surprising, but it does show that some assumptions that have long been taken for granted now need to be questioned.
Friday was quadruple witching day.
That means that many index futures and options, plus stock futures and options expired.