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April 2020 Job Loss Is The Worst In US History; Unemployment Rate Hits 14.7%
Friday, May 8, 2020 - 8:50am | 699In just two months, the coronavirus outbreak undid all the economic progress made since the 2008 financial crisis — including the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. The U.S. unemployment rate spiked from 4.4% in March to 14.7% in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is...
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Height Securities: Concrete Proposal Unlikely To Emerge From Trump's Tariff Meeting With Steel, Aluminum Execs
Thursday, March 1, 2018 - 11:33am | 579President Donald Trump will meet with steel and aluminum executives Thursday, leading some to speculate an import tariff announcement is imminent, according to Reuters. But Height Securities considers a final proposal on rates or quotas unlikely to be released. “We expect that ongoing...