Key Events This Week: FOMC Minutes, PMIs, Industrial Data; WalMart And Home Depot Earnings

Conference Board Survey Signals Ugly Job Market, Weakest 'Present Situation' In Over 5 Years The Conference Board's measure of Americans' Consumer Confidence fell more than expected in July, from an upwardly revised 92.2 to 90.8 (well below the 92.4 expectation)... The Present Situation index fell to 114.9 (below 117.5 exp) -  its weakest since Feb 2021 while Expectations were unchanged at 74.7 (very slightly better than the 74.4 exp). “Consumer confidence moderated slightly in July, continuing a general downward sloping trajectory since late 2021,” said Dana M Peterson, Chief Economist, The Conference...

These Are The Hardest Languages For English Speakers To Learn For English speakers, learning Spanish or Italian can take less than a year. Reaching the same level of proficiency in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, or Arabic may require nearly four times as much study. This wide gap reflects how closely a language resembles English in its vocabulary, grammar, sounds, and writing system. This visualization, created by Julie R. Peasley via Visual Capitalist, ranks languages by difficulty using categories and study-time estimates from Effective Language Learning and Rosetta Stone, which reference Foreign Service Institute-style benchmarks. Which Languages Are Easiest to...