What Is the Private Sector? The private sector is the part of the economy run by individuals and companies for profit and is not state-controlled. Therefore, it encompasses all for-profit businesses ...

Private sector credit growth had been declining steadily in recent months, falling from 6.58% in November 2025 to 6.20% in December, and then to 6.03% in both January and February 2026, before ...

Nigeria’s private sector recorded its strongest growth in nine months in May, driven by a sharp increase in customer demand ...

Companies in the private sector added 42,000 jobs in October, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is above economists’ estimates of a gain of 28,000 jobs. The prior month's payrolls ...

In May 2023, then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) asserted during a panel discussion at Catholic University of America that “there is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector” in ...

Companies in the private sector lost 32,000 jobs in September, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is below economists’ estimates of a gain of 50,000 jobs. The prior month's ...

Development finance leaders, ministers and entrepreneurs meeting in Brazzaville on Monday, on the sidelines of the African Development Bank Group's 2026 Annual Meetings, made the case that private ...

Carlyle Group CEO Harvey Schwartz says rising global tensions are reshaping where investors put their money.

Private-sector job creation bounced back in October, according to a snapshot of the labor market that has become more closely watched in the absence of official federal jobs data. Payroll processing ...

U.S. private sector businesses lost 32,000 workers in September as growing concerns about the economy kept employers from expanding their payrolls, according to data released Wednesday. The ADP ...

PARIS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - French private sector business growth slowed to a near halt in December, according to a monthly survey from S&P Global, which said ongoing political uncertainty was ...