Private-sector balance sheets offer ballast as inflation accelerates and stocks slide. Plus, investment newsletter commentary on Sunbelt REITS, Chinese AI, and the selloff in gold.

Private sector businesses across the country are braced for a sharp decline in activity in the next three months, the UK’s largest industry body has warned, as Chancellor Reeves struggles to reverse ...

1.6 million federal workers affected by layoffs or furloughs in 2025. Private sector hiring slows, though key industries still expanding. Health care, finance, tech and manufacturing show strongest ...

The brief US government shutdown has delayed the official jobs report for January – with the data now set to land on February 11 instead of this coming Friday – but the first look at hiring activity ...

High economic uncertainy has hiring grinding to a halt at US businesses. Job growth slowed for the second month in a row at private-sector firms, which added just 37,000 jobs in May, according to new ...

In May 2023, then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) asserted during a panel discussion at Catholic University of America that “there is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector” in ...

U.S. private payrolls fell for the first time in more than two years in June as economic uncertainty hampered hiring, but low layoffs continued to anchor the labor market. Private payrolls dropped by ...

Companies in the private sector added 63,000 jobs in February, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is above economists’ estimates of a gain of 50,000 jobs. The prior month's ...

Private-sector job creation bounced back in October, according to a snapshot of the labor market that has become more closely watched in the absence of official federal jobs data. Payroll processing ...

PARIS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - French private sector business growth slowed to a near halt in December, according to a monthly survey from S&P Global, which said ongoing political uncertainty was ...