DICK'S Sporting Goods Inc. plans to hire more than 11,000 seasonal workers across its store brands for the 2026 holiday season, the Pittsburgh-based retailer said on Oct. 15. That is a smaller target than a year ago, when the company said it expected to bring on about 14,000.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has publicly rejected the Trump administration's accusations against the company's use of skilled-worker immigration programs, calling Vice President JD Vance's fraud claims "completely off base" and warning that restricting green cards could send top engineering talen
The Georgia Ports Authority has its federal permit to build a third container terminal at the Port of Savannah. The authority said on Oct. 14 that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the permit for the planned Savannah Container Terminal after a three-year review.
The average U.S. retail price of on-highway diesel was $6.179 a gallon in the week of Oct. 12, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, about $2.51 more than a year earlier. Federal producer-price data released Oct.
U.S. retail and food services sales rose 0.8% in September, but most of the increase came from gasoline stations. Excluding gas stations, sales rose just 0.2%, according to the Census Bureau's advance estimate released Oct. 15.
Manufacturing activity in New York State jumped in October to its strongest reading in nearly five years, but the surge has not yet translated into faster hiring. The New York Fed's Empire State Manufacturing Survey, released Oct.
Manufacturers in the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's district are still adding workers on balance, but the pace is easing and their hiring plans for the next six months have pulled back sharply. The employment index in the bank's October Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey, released Oct.
Chief executives turned more pessimistic heading into the end of 2026, and slightly more of them now expect to shrink their workforces than a quarter ago.
Most chief executives of large U.S. companies say they expect to employ more people three years from now, but a majority also say they are planning to shrink their workforces in some parts of the business. Those two findings sit side by side in the 2026 KPMG U.S.
