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Services activity in the US is holding up strongly according to recent PMI data, even as manufacturing shows more mixed signals. Companies tied to artificial intelligence and automation sit at the crossroads of this two speed backdrop. Investors are paying close attention to AI stocks that could help businesses manage costs and productivity. This article…

New NVIDIA GPU acceleration for Apache Spark in Cloudera Data Engineering delivers zero-code performance gains, lower cloud costs, and faster AI-ready data pipelines

Last year, INFRA created The Good Collective, a private-label brand of dietary supplements and personal care items exclusive to INFRA member stores.

Australians are changing jobs far less often than they did 50 years ago. Financial insecurity, debt and workplace barriers may be trapping workers in jobs – and helping entrench a low-productivity form of “cosy capitalism”.

A Federal News Network survey of 7,463 federal employees found that 76% reported lower productivity after the Trump administration’s January 2025 executive order requiring them to return to the office (RTO) full-time — with more than 80% describing the overall experience as negative

Antipodes Partners published its “Antipodes Global Strategy” first-quarter 2026 investor letter, highlighting the key performance stocks, portfolio changes, and the market outlook. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The first quarter of 2026 was highly volatile. Early optimism shifted to a historic energy shock caused by US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Global equities…

BXP, Inc. recently reported second-quarter 2026 results showing higher sales and revenue but lower quarterly net income, trimmed its full-year EPS guidance due to an impairment charge, and closed a US$1.20 billion construction loan to help fund the US$2 billion 343 Madison Avenue workplace tower in Midtown Manhattan.

On August 5, 2026, McKesson Corporation reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 results showing sales of US$105.38 billion, higher than a year earlier, while net income and earnings per share from continuing operations declined year-on-year.

Even assuming a return to baseline immigration in 2029, the current slowdown in immigration will likely have long-run impacts on business formation and productivity.

Asian shares were mostly lower and South Korea’s Kospi dropped more than 4% on Thursday following declines for some Big Tech giants including memory chipmaker SK Hynix.