September 10, 2020
Wildfires across the U.S. West are among the sparks from climate change that could ignite a U.S. financial crisis by damaging home values, state tourism and local government budgets, an advisory panel to a U.S. markets regulator found. Those effects …
May 28, 2020
Memorial Day weekend, the typical start of the U.S. summer driving season, has come and gone. Data on just how much driving Americans did is trickling in, and it’s a bit noisy. Apple mobility trends show searches for directions down …
February 26, 2020
Everyone is wondering when China will return to work. While it may be tempting to consider past epidemics or labor strikes to gauge how quickly that could happen, the industrial shutdown from the coronavirus is looking more like a natural …
February 3, 2012
Reinsurer Munich Re says a series of severe earthquakes and other natural catastrophes combined with the European debt crisis has sent its profits plunging in 2011. The reinsurer, which writes backup insurance for primary insurers, said Thursday it still managed …