Minister are dead. Killed in a Helicopter Crash sunday and iran is in turmoil divided and vulnerable. Put that in the context of ongoing war in the mideast. Israel has denied any involvement. With this kind of development you might expect a significant market reaction. Thats not what were seeing at least so far. The price of oil barely budged below 80 a barrel the opposite of what you might have expected. Stocks showing modest gains very modest gains almost across the board after strong gains last week. The event iran have yet to effect the stock market. Look at this the dow up maybe 10 s p up 3 and nasdaq up maybe 14. Watch nvidia they report wednesday and how they affect the market 1. 3 . Interest rates at lower leals tenure treasury yields well below 4. 5 at 4. 45 and youre looking at 4. 84 as we speak. Gas dropping below 3. 60, 3. 59 got there and 3. 89 for gallon of diesel to speeches for the president neither uplifting from the president instead he presented a dark picture of rac
Wendell Hutson
“Things don’t look good right now with sales down 50 percent,” Starnella Johnson said of family-owned Ambassador Floral.
COVID through a small-biz lens
Wendell Hutson
For nearly two decades Starnella Johnson said her business, Ambassador Floral Co., had steady customers from high school students going to prom to local churches buying flowers for funerals and weddings.
But once the COVID-19 pandemic came along, that changed everything, and now her Roseland shop is facing closure unless she can get financial help through loans or grants.
“Things don’t look good right now with sales down 50 percent,” said Johnson, owner of the flower shop at 11045 S. Halsted St. “As I sit here thinking of ways to reinvent myself to keep these doors open, things look pretty bleak.”