Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

The October ISM Manufacturing Index checked in at 48.7% for October (Briefing.com consensus: 49.4%), down from 49.1% in September. The dividing line between expansion and contraction is 50.0%, so the ...

Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly U.S.-based employers cut more than 150,000 ...

Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical diagnostics, the executive leading the ...