Consumer spending, which accounts for nearly 70% of U.S. economic growth, and the labor market are two key areas.

Stockpiles of wine in Spain's Rioja region have swelled since the pandemic, but producers' hopes of offloading tannic reds ...

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As businesses shuttered, consumers spent less and saved more. Median global inflation fell from 2.2 percent to 1.9 percent that year. In 2021 and 2022, consumer demand recovered far more rapidly ...

Tariff‐driven volatility and a dimming demand outlook, compounded by the emergence of lower‐cost AI models from China's DeepSeek, have put pressure on semiconductor shares. For example ...

This approach, guided by the valuation of the environmental and economic benefit-cost ratio, is supported by the Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) of the World Bank, and is now being implemented ...

Global CEOs including Qualcomm Inc.’s Cristiano Amon and Saudi Aramco’s Amin Nasser will travel to Beijing for an annual gathering of top executives, people familiar with the matter say, with ...

Optiple, a company specializing in dimming film cell, use liquid crystal technology for dimming solutions. Optiple is currently developing products with global customers and is also actively building ...

Google shares the following improvements: The one that immediately catches our eye there is the second, as we recently reported on a wave of user complaints about unexpected screen dimming with ...

Summary: Google has released Android 16 Beta 3.1 and it includes a handful of fixes for various bugs. The release is small but it solves a few inconvenient issues that were plaguing users. Google ...

Washington, March 18, 2025 — The World Bank Group convened the second annual Global Digital Summit today, bringing together public and private sector leaders to expand our digital technology ...

The 2025 Global Digital Summit: 'Digital Pathways for All' has concluded. Recordings of all sessions are available on this page and on the World Bank Group's social media channels. This year’s summit ...