Remodeling rout drags construction spending lower in September

Sarah Friar, chief financial officer of OpenAI, speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBC OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on Friday said the company will continue to invest in artificial intelligence infrastructure, even after voters strongly rebuked data centers during Tuesday’s midterm elections….

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The insurance and accounting professions have long had professional fraternities for college students pursuing those majors. And about three years ago, Mac Gardner, founder and chief education officer at FinLit Tech, created Mu Nu Upsilon, the first professional fraternity for financial planning. The first active chapter started at the University of South Florida, where he…

The World Cup gave small businesses in host cities a sales bump. That, at least, was a relatively predictable outcome. But findings shared in the September 2026 edition of the SMB Growth Report from PYMNTS Intelligence reveal that the bigger surprise is who delivered that sales dump. And it wasn’t all the tourists pouring in. The…

The average asking rent for an unfurnished one-bedroom unit in Montreal fell to $1,586 in July, down $13 from June and $105, or 6.2%, from a year earlier, according to liv.rent. Furnished one-bedroom rents also declined, falling 0.7% from June to an average of $1,623. Seven of the 10 Montreal neighbourhoods tracked in the report…