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  • 3 days ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

    On Tuesday morning, we got the results of a monthly survey of supply chain managers on topics including transportation, inventory management and last but not least, warehousing. It’s called the Logistics Manager’s Index, and it found that warehousing utilization has been growing this year as importers stockpile goods ahead of the Trump administration’s tariffs. Ocotillo Capital Partners in San Antonio, Texas, builds warehouses mostly to serve cross-border trade.

  • 1 week ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

    Bond yields were down Tuesday, but over the last few months they’ve been rising. Bond investors have been demanding higher yields, because they’re concerned about the GOP’s plan to cut taxes without making any meaningful spending cuts. That will force the government to issue a whole lot of new bonds in the future, which will drive bond prices lower and yields higher. The thing is, bond investors aren’t only driving yields higher here in the States.

  • 2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

    It’s been five years since a white police officer murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis. In the year after his murder, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced plans to invest millions of dollars in small, Black-owned banks across the country, to help those banks make more loans to small businesses in underserved communities. One of those banks was Optus Bank, located in Columbia, South Carolina. It calls itself South Carolina’s only Black-owned bank.

  • 2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

    Without getting too deep in the weeds of the GOP tax and spending bill that’s being batted around on Capitol Hill right now, it’s safe to say that financial markets have some concerns. Namely, that cutting taxes without cutting spending significantly will, according to the Congressional Budget Office, increase the deficit by $3.8 trillion over the next decade. That’s spooking bond markets: The yield on the 10-year T-note hasn’t been this high since February.

  • 2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

    About five years ago this week, George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, was murdered by a white police officer. After the murder and the nationwide movement it inspired, several big banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, in small, Black-owned banks across the country, empowering those banks to make more loans to small businesses in underserved communities.

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