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Despite a strong economy the past few years, a construction labor shortage has left construction companies in a peculiar position. Even with the unemployment rate hovering at the lowest level in 18 years, it's becoming increasingly hard to find workers.
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Corporate social responsibility makes good sense from a business perspective, and not just because companies stand to gain financial returns on these initiatives.
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In a quarter where a “risk-on” mentality generally prevailed, the third quarter saw U.S. stocks gain, Treasury yields rise, and credit spreads tighten. For their part, U.S. Treasury investors looked past threats of tariffs and trade wars to an economy that is still strong by all accounts.
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One of the toughest issues facing growing firms in a fiercely competitive market is the importance of company culture.
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With many small and medium-sized businesses experiencing an upturn in sales, the recent increase in interest rates may seem like a tempting time to change your cash management strategies to move excess cash from a non-interest bearing account into one paying the highest rate they can find.
Read PostJoin the Boston Private investment team on Thursday, October 18 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time as they share their insights on the macroeconomic and market outlook.
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The challenge for investors, and for us as advisors, is to balance the need for a long term, goals-based perspective and approach with the reality that markets are constantly moving and adjusting, creating new risk/reward tradeoffs, and frankly, challenges for us in meeting those objectives.
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As we move deeper into this long expansion, each economic data point is being scrutinized for signs of deterioration. We expect to hit cyclical highs in areas such as manufacturing and employment at some point next year, but we have yet to see evidence of that in 2018.
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As we move into the final quarter of 2018, the landscape is dotted with both opportunities and challenges, created by a combination of Federal Reserve policy, the Trump Administration, and frankly, time.
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As we entered the second half of 2018, markets appeared to be hitting an inflection point. On one hand, economic data remained robust, with the consumer fully engaged, wages growing at a modest pace, industrial production steady, and the corporate tax cut creating the opportunity for meaningful investment.
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