Coverage: Oil prices briefly hit $80 a barrel
Crude-oil prices on Thursday ended little changed, if not slightly higher, after a brief jaunt past $80 a barrel for the international benchmark first the time since 2014. Myra P. Saefong and Sara McFarlane of MarketWatch.com had the news: WTI prices finished flat, having been poised earlier to mark another 3½-year settlement high. Brent prices were barely positive […]
Coverage: Housing starts fell in April
The Commerce Department said housing starts dropped 3.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.287 million units in April. The decline reversed March’s rise, indicating that housing continued to tread water. Lucia Mutikani of Reuters had the news: Building permits fell 1.8 percent to a rate of 1.352 million units last month. Starts fell […]
PBS NewsHour seeks digital video producer for economics
PBS NewsHour is seeking a Digital Video Producer, Economics who will be responsible for strategizing, producing and managing production of original video content, especially designed for social and online consumption that focuses on economics content. You will work closely with senior digital and editorial newsroom leadership and audience development team to create online content that […]
Newsday reporter Bauman joins Daily Mail to cover jobs/economy
Newsday reporter Valerie Bauman has joined The Daily Mail’s New York bureau to cover national social affairs and trends. That means she will be covering immigration, jobs and the economy, according to her LinkedIn profile. Bauman joined Newsday in September. 2014 and covered the town of Islip. Before that, she worked at the Puget Sound Business Journal covering health […]
Bloomberg’s Sasso has new beat on the economy
Bloomberg News reporter Michael Sasso, who has been covering the airline industry out of the Atlanta bureau, has a new beat focused on the economy. The beat is called “Barometers” and Sasso’s objective is to find under-the-radar economic indicators in company news and from other sources. Many — but not all — of his examples will […]
WSJ seeks economics reporter in London
The Wall Street Journal is looking for a reporter with an interest in economics and finance to join the U.K. team that covers Britain’s economic, political and general news. The reporter will be responsible for running the premium, real-time delivery system for European economic data. The role involves organizing coverage of core economic data across […]
Coverage: Trade deficit narrows in March
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as exports increased to a record high amid a surge in deliveries of commercial aircraft and soybeans, bolstering the economy’s outlook heading into the second quarter. Lucia Mutikani of Reuters had the news: The Commerce Department said the trade deficit tumbled 15.2 percent to a six-month low of […]
Coverage: Pending home sales rise slightly in March
Slightly more Americans signed contracts to buy homes in March, yet higher mortgage rates and a shortage of available houses are weighing on sales. Christopher Rugaber of AP had the news: The National Association of Realtors said Monday that its pending home sales index ticked up 0.4 percent last month to 107.6. It was the second […]
Biz journalist Mracek joins St. Louis Fed
Longtime business journalist Karen Mracek has joined the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as a media relations coordinator. She started on Monday. Mracek most recently was a Federal Reserve Board reporter for Market News International, where she was also at one time acting managing editor for the global news service. Mracek was previously with […]
Coverage: 10-year Treasuries hit 3 percent
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note hit the key psychological level of 3 percent Tuesday for the first time since January 2014. Thomas Franck of CNBC.com had the story: “It’s certainly a psychological level for people,” said Gary Pollack, head of fixed-income trading at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management. “We have a lot of supply this […]
