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Recession Early Warning: More Misleading Earnings Reports
In the United States, publicly traded companies are required to report their recent financial performance, whether good or bad, to the public. The accuracy of these reports is critical for investors, ...
Investing in Cheerful Chatbots To Boost Customer Service? Don’t Waste Your Money
Humans displaying positive emotions in customer service interactions have long been known to improve customer experience, but researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of ...
Financial Stress Harming Workers’ Mental Health: The Hartford
New research by The Hartford finds 63 percent of U.S. workers feel their financial stress has increased over the past year, and 56 percent say their financial stress ...
AmTrust: Mental Stress, Other Restaurant Injuries Up Since COVID
According to a new report by AmTrust Financial Services, while overall restaurant injuries are down, specific injuries, including crushing, fainting, inflammation, ...
Increase in Car Accidents? Blame Weather, Time of Day—Not Pot Decriminalization
Actuarial research released last week suggests that marijuana decriminalization is not associated with a notable increase in traffic accidents or accident severity. Temporal patterns of human ...
CFOs Overestimate Their Ability to Deliver Accurate Earnings Guidance
A new study from the University of Iowa finds that financial officers expect to continue issuing quarterly earnings guidance to analysts and investors despite risks and the criticism that it ...
Stereotypes Can Hold Middle-Aged Women Back at Work: Study
Even as they achieve more power and capability on the job, middle-aged women can be held back by a perceived lack of niceness, new research finds.
While chronic stress can severely damage your health, smaller stressors, such as a looming deadline hanging over your head, may actually be beneficial for your brain, ...
Some Types of Stress Could Be Good for Brain Functioning: Study
Reshoring to Generate $30B in Commercial P/C Premiums by 2026: Swiss Re
Swiss Re predicts that deglobalization will generate $33 billion in new commercial property/casualty insurance premiums by 2026, according to its latest sigma report: "Maintaining resilience: the ...