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[Reuters Business @ReutersBiz]

Positive ESG performance improves returns globally, research shows https://t.co/QLkqbTqX8K

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“We might expect #prices to stabilize moving forward, not necessarily that the prices will go down but that the rate at which it’s increasing will slow down, maybe in the coming months or coming years,” @BakerInstitute fellow @jorge_barro tells @KPRC2.
https://t.co/2KwHrIOih2

[CNBC @CNBC]

Reports of romance scams hit a record high in 2021, according to the FTC, with losses totaling $547 million for the year. https://t.co/YCdyLPzzui

[Businessweek @BW]

There's a right way to make that radical career change https://t.co/wRdWnCx8PB

[NYT Business @nytimesbusiness]

Many of us are intrigued by wonders that scream “THE FUTURE,” like flying cars. But sometimes the best inventions are more about brain power than technology magic, writes @shiraovide in On Tech. https://t.co/DWtMDcuD2h

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Heard on the Street: Amazon has agreed to a $3.9 billion cash deal for 1Life Healthcare, which runs a chain of primary care providers. In an environment that has become hostile to the expansion ambitions of tech giants, the biggest one of all keeps at it. https://t.co/rQ3hdvDeHA

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Extreme heat is hard on our bodies AND the economy, @uarizona economist Derek Lemoine writes for @ConversationUS. https://t.co/pueZUCEVC3

[Bloomberg Wealth @wealth]

It's not just you: Yelp reviewers are railing about shrinkflation https://t.co/OrRXhvIC6S

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Even with AirTags, one family waited nearly two weeks to be reunited with their lost bag in Orlando–and even then it took some extra perseverance https://t.co/0lHu3RrTl8

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

“We’ve got twice the solar we had last summer, and something like three times what we had eighteen months ago,” energy consultant Doug Lewin says. “We actually set another solar record today, and we set one yesterday.” https://t.co/qURizYN49H

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"It’s in the interests of sellers and buyers both to understand more deeply not only why we buy what we buy — but where," @RiceBizWisdom writes.
https://t.co/Lr6rW4WaLr #shopping #consumers #customers #retail #retailers

[MarketWatch @MarketWatch]

Fed’s Bostic backs another super-sized interest rate hike at July meeting https://t.co/IewSQVP7jO

[CNBC @CNBC]

Elon Musk's team has stopped engaging in funding discussions with Twitter over spam account numbers, The Washington Post reported. @JBoorstin reports from the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference where Musk is in attendance amid the ongoing saga. https://t.co/VmyVPngIWz

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The Las Vegas Raiders have named Sandra Douglass Morgan president, making her the first Black woman to hold that role in the National Football League https://t.co/VmthxMm6kd

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Americans are dipping into the huge pile of savings they accumulated over the first two years of the pandemic https://t.co/4PT7vgF9QA

[NYT Business @nytimesbusiness]

When cryptocurrencies plunged, big Wall Street companies and some rich investors escaped much of the damage, but retail investors weren’t so lucky. https://t.co/gaOPYVER17

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High #gasoline prices had an inordinate impact on #consumerconfidence, @BakerInstitute fellow @finley_mark tells @ckrausss. “There is a sense of crisis with people saying, ‘There is something wrong here, and I need to be more careful,’” he said.
https://t.co/Jhi24ZrVss #gasprices

[NYT Business @nytimesbusiness]

Mortgage rates have spiked to their highest levels since the 2008 housing crisis as the Federal Reserve tries to fight inflation. "We've reached the point where people just can't afford a house," an executive at a real estate brokerage said. https://t.co/BGwXtz31Qo

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The ruling curbs the regulatory power of federal agencies https://t.co/WwPiMuGOIz

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“The solution to stopping this is the #Fed’s usual medicine. That means raising #interestrates aggressively, but not too aggressively, to slow the #economy down to a pace we can manage,” said @profp_rod, dean of @Rice_Biz. https://t.co/9NK0CJuiG9 #inflation #inflation2022 #Texas