Friday’s jobs report will almost certainly show a year-over-year decline in employment in the manufacturing sector, which lost more than 90,000 jobs in 2025.
The private credit market has grown fivefold since the 2008 financial crisis, according to the Federal Reserve, and now sits somewhere near the $2 trillion-mark globally. In the last couple weeks, though, the market has gone a bit sideways.
Nvidia started out as a developer of graphics chips focused on the gaming market. Now, the world’s most valuable company is looking to get back into the consumer market.
Wholesale inventories ticked up just 0.2% in December compared to the month before. It’s a sign inventories have stabilized since widespread tariffs were enacted last year.
Researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research asked executives at nearly 6,000 companies how generative AI has affected their productivity and employment.
