The New Yorker saw a work stoppage as more than 100 union employees staged a 24-hour walkout over a pay dispute. The magazine’s union represents fact checkers, web producers and other editorial staffers at the Condé Nast magazine. Read more…
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Procter & Gamble increased its spending on marketing by 7% a year in the most recent quarter as the consumer packaged goods (CPG) giant saw higher demand for brands like Tide, Mr. Clean, Dawn and Cascade. Read more…
Joe Ricketts, the billionaire philanthropist-businessman who founded TD Ameritrade, plans to start a digital news outlet called Straight Arrow News. Read more…
Can smaller papers adopt a strategy that has worked for “The New York Times”? Read more…
Google is a better driver of e-commerce sales and traffic than social networks Facebook and Instagram because the search giant reaches consumers who are more intent on making a purchase. Read more…
Harvard University law professor Lawrence Lessig this week sued The New York Times for “clickbait defamation,” accusing the newspaper of hurting his reputation with an inflammatory headline and lead sentence in a story that mentioned sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read more…
Fiverr, the online marketplace for freelance services, today is opening the Influencer Store to help social media personalities build and maintain their digital presence. Read more…
“The gap between promotion and purchase is closing and making the experience more seamless,” Elastic Path’s Darin Archer says about how platforms like TikTok and Instagram are blending ads and shopping. Read more…
| TIME (ET) | REPORT | PERIOD | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PREVIOUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONDAY, SEPT. 30 | |||||
| 9:45 am | Chicago PMI | Sept. | 50.4 | ||
| TUESDAY, OCT. 1 | |||||
| 9:45 am | Markit manufacturing PMI | Sept. | 51.0 | ||
| 10 am | ISM manufacturing index | Sept. | 49.1% | ||
| 10 am | Construction spending | Aug. | 0.1% | ||
| Varies | Motor vehicle sales | Sept. | 17.0mln | ||
| WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2 | |||||
| 8:15 am | ADP employment | Sept. | 195,000 | ||
| THURSDAY, OCT. 3 | |||||
| 8:30 am | Weekly jobless claims | 9/28 | 213,000 | ||
| 9:45 am | Markit services PMI | Sept. | 50.9 | ||
| 10 am | ISM nonmanufacturing index | Sept. | 56.4% | ||
| 10 am | Factory orders | Aug. | 1.4% | ||
| FRIDAY, OCT. 4 | |||||
| 8:30 am | Nonfarm payrolls | Sept. | 130,000 | ||
| 8:30 am | Unemployment rate | Sept. | 3.7% | ||
| 8:30 am | Average hourly earnings | Sept. | 0.4% | ||
| 8:30 am | Foreign trade deficit | Aug. | -$54.0bln | ||
Walmart introduced its first branded hashtag challenge on TikTok, the social video app with more than 500 million users worldwide. Read more…