(New York Times0 — We all know people who make a lot of money yet always seem to struggle to get by. (Or we read about the now famous University of Chicago professor who blogged about the trouble he and his family were having making ends meet while earning more than $250,000 a year.) At the […]
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) — Income levels for African-Americans are a bit more than half of whites in metro Atlanta, according to analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data by a sister publication of Atlanta Business Chronicle. Whites in metro Atlanta made a per capita income of $35,370 in 2009. Per capita income (PCI) is defined as […]
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) — There are more college-educated, unmarried and childless women than men taking higher-paid knowledge-based jobs in Atlanta, according to data from Research Advisors. Atlanta has a 121 percent ratio of median full-time wages for single childless women, when compared with their male counterparts. That puts Atlanta at the top among American cities for […]
(New York Times) — THE stock market rallied for a year, but mutual fund flows and other sentiment indicators suggested that many investors didn’t believe what they were seeing. In the second quarter, they showed more conviction — and became convinced that stocks should be avoided. An attitude adjustment appeared to have arrived on May 6, […]
(AP) — Shipping giant UPS is optimistic about the economic recovery it is seeing in countries where it does business around the world. The company made the comments as it formally reported Tuesday a nearly 33 percent rise in first-quarter profit to $533 million, or 53 cents a share, compared to a profit of $401 million, […]
Corporate profits are coming back. The only question is for how long.