Culture
Small Business Hiring Splits Sharply Across Industries
If your hiring feels harder than your neighbor’s, the numbers now back you up, because NFIB’s quarterly industry survey found optimism rising unevenly across four sectors. Construction, manufacturing, retail...
Seed Funding: 5 Signals Behind Transfyr’s $25M Round
A brand new company just walked out of stealth with a check most Series A founders would envy, because Transfyr launched with $25 million in seed funding led by...
August Jobs Report Caps a Heavy Week of Economic Data
The August jobs report arrives Friday, September 4, closing out a week that also delivers ISM manufacturing and services surveys, the JOLTS openings data, the ADP employment reading and...
Gen Z in the Workplace Wants Careers Without Borders
A Pebl survey released August 27 found that 54% of US Gen Z knowledge workers now define the American Dream as chasing the best career opportunity anywhere on earth,...
Workplace Culture: What the Best Small Firms Get Right
Great Place To Work and Fortune published the 2026 Best Small and Medium Workplaces lists on August 27, drawing on 1.3 million confidential employee responses gathered across companies employing...
Wall St opens lower as Middle East clashes send oil prices up
Published Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 09:43 PM[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Monday (Aug 31) after military strikes between the US and Iran drove up...
Toyota, Honda face biggest hit from Trump’s proposed 50% tariff on Canadian cars
Tariffs could force both automakers to close some Canadian assembly lines, analysts sayPublished Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 02:24 PM — Updated Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 03:14 PM[TOKYO]...
Vessels crossing Strait of Hormuz drop to 5 per day over weekend
Published Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 07:26 AM[SINGAPORE] The number of visible commodity vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz dropped to five per day over the weekend, shipping data...
Fed chair Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole turn favours soaring banks over struggling S-Reits
Rising bond yields may reach a tipping point that chokes off growth and deflates richly priced blue chips[SINGAPORE] In the end, market watchers seemed to interpret US Federal Reserve...
Director interests, buybacks and capital formation across SGX stocks
[SINGAPORE] Over the five sessions from Aug 21 to 27, close to 90 director interests and substantial shareholdings were filed for around 40 primary-listed stocks.Directors or CEOs reported 22...
