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The numbers: American manufacturers grew in February at their fastest pace since the onset of the pandemic and are increasingly optimistic about the economy, a closely followed survey showed. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index climbed to a two-year high of 60.8% last month from 58.7% in January. …

Most Americans believe themselves to be members of the middle class. But a new report has shed light on who really makes up this segment of society — and how their numbers are shrinking. A paper released this week from the RAND Corporation, a public policy research firm, explores the …

For any business in the UK right now, the outcome of any decision made should be to reduce the size of the impact on overall business and on the wider society. To be able to do this it is important to know exactly where a micro business is in regards …

MADRID — So the COVID-19 pandemic is making your life complicated? Hold my extra-frosty cerveza, was the message Storm Filomena delivered to Spain over the weekend. Filomena dumped around 20 inches of snow on the Spanish capital Madrid between Friday evening and Saturday — this in a city where any …

The Four Seasons Hotel (pictured left) near Madrid’s Puerta del Sol on Nov. 17, 2020. Kollmeyer/MarketWatch For 41 years, families in the Spanish capital of Madrid have kicked off the Christmas holidays by gathering behind the big El Corte Inglés department store to watch giant, singing puppets. The store’s “Cortylandia” …

People wearing face masks stroll and relax along the seafront near the Castel dell’Ovo fortress in downtown Naples on Nov. 12, 2020, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases overwhelming hospitals. AFP via Getty Images Many are facing the harsh reality that Italy has a terrible second wave as the cold …

Demand for food delivery has risen dramatically during the COVID-19 crisis. MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Zachary Davis, owner of The Glass Jar restaurant group in Santa Cruz, Calif., said he intentionally avoided working with food-delivery apps before the COVID-19 pandemic because the costs to his business just seemed too high. But …

As the nation’s attention was focused on who would be the next president the day after the Nov. 3 election, Sierra Graves was busy grabbing as many of her and her three children’s belongings as she could. Just 10 minutes later, sheriff’s deputies knocked on her apartment door to evict …

The head of the World Health Organization has praised a developing country for its success in handling the coronavirus pandemic on Friday and urged others to re-evaluate their approaches to health care: “ ‘Thailand is an excellent example that, with a whole-of-government, whole-of-society, comprehensive approach, this virus can be contained …