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On Thursday, Coinbase Global, Inc. is slated to report earnings as a public company for the very first time this week. Mani Sethuraman, assistant professor at the SC Johnson College of Business, studies corporate communication and its impact on markets.

Economics and Business

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On Monday, AT&T announced a $43 billion deal to merge its content unit, WarnerMedia with rival Discovery. The merger, still pending regulators’ approval, signals a change in AT&T’s years-long strategy of combining its communications networks with content production and distribution. Aija Leiponen, professor at the SC Johnson College of Business and an expert in telecom industries, says that AT&T’s reversal validates what observers have been witnessing in recent years: that telecom ownership of content business is not a value added.

Economics and Business

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Desirée LeClercq, professor of employment law and an expert on labor provisions in trade agreements, comments on the first U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Angela Cornell, professor of law and director of the Labor Law Clinic at Cornell University’s Law School, says the Amazon vote represents a system that favors corporate interests over workers’ fundamental rights. 

Economics and Business

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Steven Kyle, an expert in macroeconomics and government policy, says it is appropriate to be optimistic about the country’s economic future.

Economics and Business

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Tony Byers, diversity and inclusion programs director at Cornell University, is an expert in corporate diversity and inclusion practices.

Economics and Business

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry, Christopher Ober, a materials engineering expert, and Ron Olson, director of operations for Cornell's Nanoscale facility, comment on a global shortage of semiconductors.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Economics and Business

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Mani Sethuraman, assistant professor in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell, will be watching the Fed announcement with an ear to its tone, which he has found correlates with that of corporate managers and equity analysts in their subsequent stock recommendations.   

Economics and Business

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its February job report, which is expected to show slight gains in the number of employees at U.S. businesses. Erica Groshen, senior economic advisor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says high infection rate and extreme weather conditions is likely to depress what could have been a more significant job growth.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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This week, the Biden administration will revise the Paycheck Protection Program, the main U.S. coronavirus relief program for small businesses, to focus its reach to smaller, minority firms. Tom Schryver, visiting lecturer at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business and the David J. BenDaniel Faculty Advisor for the BR Ventures Fund, says small firms have lacked the resources available to large companies. As such, providing them with targeted loans is crucial for their survival.

Economics and Business

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