Commercial Real Estate & Business News December 17, 2019
For Emerging Retailers, Bricks Can Boost Clicks Emerging brands and direct-to-consumer companies are taking center stage in the U.S. retail real estate industry, not as alleged destroyers of brick-and-mortar locations but as converts to those stores. Companies are acknowledging to real estate brokers and landlords that having a physical location, it turns out, is important. It […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News December 16, 2019
Power of the Pause: Are We in the Age of the Mini Recession? There seems to be a common consensus these days that we are due for a recession. It’s understandable why many may believe this: Over the past 40 years, the U.S. has experienced a recession approximately every 10 years (1980-82, 1990-91, 2001, 2008-09). There […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News December 13, 2019
Fed Holds Steady, Signals no Interest Rate Changes Through 2020 The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate unchanged on Wednesday and signaled it plans to hold steady through 2020, barring unexpected economic news. All the members of the Federal Open Market Committee supported the decision to keep the rate in the 1.5% to 1.75% range, the […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News December 12, 2019
US Economy Steady, Arizona Stronger Headed into 2020, Experts Say Despite uncertainty about national economic policy and the ongoing trade war with China, the U.S. economy likely will remain stable into 2020 and Arizona’s economy will do even better, according to experts at Arizona State University’s annual economic forecast luncheon. While national growth projections are not […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News December 11, 2019
CoStar Economy: About That Surprisingly Good Jobs Report That sound you hear is the furious scribbling of economists revising down their forecast for recession. Two weeks ago we wrote that there may be some troubling signs of slowdown in the jobs market. Nearly everything since then has suggested otherwise. Employers hired a net 266,000 employees in […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News December 10, 2019
CoStar Economy: About That Surprisingly Good Jobs Report That sound you hear is the furious scribbling of economists revising down their forecast for recession. Two weeks ago we wrote that there may be some troubling signs of slowdown in the jobs market. Nearly everything since then has suggested otherwise. Employers hired a net 266,000 employees in […]