Beckett Showalter

Business Buzz: United States’ September job and employment report 0
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- October 12, 2026
The United States labor market reported that the economy added 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased to 4.2% in the month of September. With the midterm elections happening in November, what does this data mean for Republicans? The 29,000 nonfarm payroll jobs fell well below economists’ expectations this month. Economists expected U.S. job growth
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Business Buzz: What makes a rebrand successful?0
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- October 5, 2026
It’s no secret that people change over time; the same thing can be said about companies. Not all of them are going to be the exact same from when they first started to over 100 years later. This is why some of them undergo rebrands, or even multiple. Recently, companies such as Carter’s and Tropical
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Business Buzz: Mortgage rates hit highest level since Trump took office 0
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- September 28, 2026
It’s the fourth-straight week that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has increased, climbing up to 6.95%. This marks the highest level for mortgage rates since President Trump’s first full week into his second term late January last year. A mortgage rate is the percentage of interest that is charged on a home loan. These
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Business Buzz: Canada’s retaliatory tariffs to take effect on certain U.S. goods, Trump to escalate trade war 0
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- September 20, 2026
United States President Donald Trump is rapidly escalating the current trade war with Canada which has been in effect since February of this year. This will spike the price of certain Canadian products across the country. A tariff is a tax that one country charges on goods and services imported from another country. Trump is
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