Vital Farms (VITL) CEO Russell Diez-Canseco says the recent spike in egg prices, up more nearly 60% year-over-year, is “a head scratcher.” “Over the course of 2022, we certainly saw inflationary impacts to our key inputs like the grains we feed our girls [hens] and the diesel fuel that the truckers use to fuel their trucks as they deliver the eggs to the grocery stores,” Diez-Canseco told Yahoo Finance. “Our approach to price increases has been to take them reluctantly in small amounts.” A… Source link
Read More »Yellen warns of ‘irreparable harm’ if debt ceiling not raised in letter to Congress
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the formal debt limit is set to be reached next week in a letter to Congress Friday and pushed lawmakers to increase or suspend the limit in a “timely manner” to avoid far-reaching economic damage. “Failure to meet the government’s obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability,” Yellen wrote. The long-awaited milestone, after which the U.S. borrowing authority of… Source link
Read More »Powell Says Rates to Be Raised ‘Purposefully’ to Curb Inflation
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said officials were determined to curb inflation after they raised interest rates by 75 basis points for a third straight time and signaled even more aggressive hikes in the future than expected by investors. Most Read from Bloomberg “We are moving our policy stance purposefully to a level that will be sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2%,” he told a press conference in Washington on Wednesday after officials lifted the… Source link
Read More »Over $300,000 raised for Burger King employee who never missed work in 27 years and got a backpack, movie ticket, and Starbucks cup as a gift
Burger King employee Kevin Ford never missed a day’s work in the 27 years he spent as a cook at the Las Vegas McCarren airport location of the chain restaurant. So when he arrived at work on the 27th anniversary of his employment and joked around about the time spent working at the company, management scrambled to find a present to thank him for his hard work. The present: a string backpack, a movie ticket, a lanyard, a coffee cup, and some candy. Ford posted a video of him opening the… Source link
Read More »Overheating job market has raised the risk of recession meaningfully, warns Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs isn’t yet ready to join the chorus of its peers in calling a U.S. recession, but it sure appears to be inching closer to that frenzied camp. “We do put some weight on the historical patterns [of the labor market] and believe that the overheating of the labor market has raised the risk of recession meaningfully. The yield curve seems to discount a recession probability in 2023 of about one in three, roughly double the unconditional average, and we would broadly concur with this… Source link
Read More »Warnings raised over Russian tech giant Yandex’s UK operation | Russia
The government has been urged to restrict the UK operation of Russia’s biggest technology company amid concern over its ties to the Kremlin. Yandex, Russia’s equivalent to Google, is headquartered in Moscow but operates in more than 17 countries and recently launched Yango Deli in London, a service offering 15-minute delivery to households of food, alcohol and toiletries. The parent company, which offers map, search, taxi and shopping services, has been subject to sanctions in Ukraine… Source link
Read More »‘Catastrophic economic consequences’ if debt ceiling not raised by Oct. 18
The United States Congress has a deadline on paying its bills: October 18, 2021. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen said that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the Treasury will run out of emergency funds to pay U.S. debt holders by that date. “Failing to increase the debt limit would have catastrophic economic consequences,” Yellen told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. In August, a statutory limit on federal debt — called the debt ceiling — was reinstated,… Source link
Read More »David Friedberg’s Alphabet-backed Production Board raised $300 million
CEO of The Production Board David Friedberg walks to a morning session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 09, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images David Friedberg is known in Silicon Valley as an early Google executive who started farming insurance company Climate Corporation and sold it to Monsanto for $1 billion in 2013. More recently, Friedberg has gained the nickname Queen of Quinoa on the popular All-In podcast with investors Jason Calacanis, Chamath… Source link
Read More »Here are 2 taxes could be raised to pay for Biden’s tax credits: Former 2020 contender
During his campaign for president, John Delaney once described himself as a “solutions-oriented moderate.” His policy ideas, which were numerous, didn’t gain traction during an election often dominated by more liberal voices. Delaney himself was out of the race by January 2020 but once all was said and done, a fellow moderate — Joe Biden — ended up with the nomination and the presidency. In an interview with Yahoo Finance this week, Delaney, a former Maryland Congressman who now… Source link
Read More »Thrasio, which buys up Amazon third-party sellers, has rapidly raised $1.75 billion
Less than one month after announcing $500 million in debt financing that reportedly valued the company at $3 billion, Thrasio, which acquires Amazon sellers and improves their operations, has raised another $750 million, the company announced on Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday. The Massachusetts-based startup has held seven fundraises in a little over one year, and has now raised $1.75 billion to date. In 2020, Thrasio saw $100 million in profit from sales of more than $500 million. The company… Source link
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