Americans don’t trust members of Congress and are more likely to have confidence in journalists, police and the military, a Pew Research Center study reported Thursday (Sept.20). Researchers have discovered that the public’s trust in different organizations and political leaders hinges on the perception of...
The Federal Reserve’s most recent annual stress test — the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review — revealed that credit cards rank at the top of the risk list for banks’ potential losses. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Fed’s hypothetical recession calculation has banks projecting...
Think about the number of texts you send each day. Oh, that includes the short, one-word replies or just a solo emoji. For millennials between the ages of 18 and 24, the number of texts sent on a normal day averages 109.5, or about seven...
The 2016 U.S. Mobile App Report by comScore is the “digipedia” of mobile apps. It tells you everything you ever wanted to know about mobile app use, from who is accessing the web and how, to the significance of the length of a thumb. Here...
Whether you’re annoyed that they take selfies or that they would rather share what they have than own things, plenty of people knock Millennials, especially when it comes to work ethic. That may be more stereotype than truth. That’s according to the recent Small Business Indicator report...
The grocery sector may be in for a few lean months, if not years. As noted across several web sources, including Seeking Alpha, a number of executives offering insight at several industry conferences have said that sales are sluggish and that, at least in some...
The U.S. job market has lots of openings, but not for lack of effort in trying to fill them. According to the latest numbers from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS, for short), released monthly by the Labor Department, job openings are at...
Data is unstructured gold. For retailers, the key is to be agile enough — in a constant dialogue between marketing and IT departments — to analyze that data in real time. Synchrony Financial, in a new whitepaper, discusses the way data should be visualized and...
In the United States, companies added 172,000 jobs in June, The New York Times reported on Thursday (July 7), and this indicates that hiring may been on the mend after slowdowns in April and May. The data came from payroll processing firm ADP, which said that service firms...
