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New York ranks high in foreign investment
Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish or expand U.S. businesses totaled $420.7 billion in 2015, an increase of 68 percent from 2014, according to a report released July […]
N.Y. foreclosure inventory rate improves
New York’s foreclosure inventory rate, representing the percentage of homes with a mortgage that are in some stage of foreclosure, declined to 3.2 percent in May from 3.7 percent in […]
Consumer confidence on the rise in New York
New Yorkers in general have become more optimistic over the past two years, with statewide confidence in the consumer marketplace reaching its highest point since the winter of 2007 and […]
Ontario County median age is highest in area
With a median age of 43.6 and 18.3 percent of the total population aged 65 years or older, Ontario County residents were the oldest among those of Rochester-area counties in […]
N.Y. income tax 59 percent of total tax revenue
Individual income taxes comprised 59 percent of total New York tax revenue in the first quarter of 2016, according to the quarterly summary of state and local tax revenue released […]
New York’s GDP grew 1.4 percent in 2015
New York’s real gross domestic product—the sum of what consumers, businesses, and government spend on final goods and services, plus investment and net foreign trade—grew by 1.4 percent in 2015, […]
Monroe best in area for mortgage approvals
Monroe County ranks No. 2 among New York counties and No. 117 nationwide in the ease of getting a mortgage, according to a recent study by SmartAsset, a company that […]
Jobless rate in Rochester declines to 4.7 percent
The unemployment rate in Rochester declined from 5.3 percent in April 2015 to 4.7 percent a year later—a decrease of some 3,314 unemployed workers—according to the latest Metropolitan Area Employment […]
Prices rise 1.1 percent for urban consumers
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 1.1 percent nationwide from April 2015 to April 2016, according to the May 17 report from the Bureau of Labor […]
Rochester’s median household income drops 13 percent
From 1999 to 2014, Rochester’s median household income declined from $72,711 to $63,220 (in 2013-14 dollars), or 13.1 percent, according to a Pew Research Center study based on U.S. census […]
Price of gasoline 17 percent lower than a year ago
Despite increases in recent weeks, the average U.S. price of a gallon of regular gasoline has declined by 45 cents, or 17 percent, over the past year, according to Tuesday’s […]
New York home prices show impressive rise
The average price for a single-family home in New York, including distressed sales, rose 8.2 percent from March 2015 to March 2016 – the fifth-largest increase among the fifty states […]
