Economy

While Greater Worcester’s unemployment fluctuates month over month, the region’s rate ticked slightly upward in July.

Fresh off announcing an upcoming merger with a Framingham-based credit union, St. Mary’s Credit Union in Marlborough has selected a new leader.

For the third consecutive month, Massachusetts’ unemployment rate held steady in July while remaining higher than the nation as a whole.

Shortly after Webster Five promoted its CFO Brian Westerlind to president and CEO, the Auburn-based bank has named his successor.

Lifeward had a second executive join its C-suite transition in two months as the Marlborough-based medical device has selected its new CFO.

Westborough-based optics firm has named Erich Manz, a former executive at New Hampshire-based Allegro MicroSystems, as its replacement for its retiring CFO.

The Hanover Insurance Group has named long-time employee Toni Mitchell as its president of technology and life sciences.

After 10 years serving as City of Worcester’s Health & Human Services Commissioner, Dr. Matilde Castiel is calling it a career, sort of.

Before his departure, Bailey had previously served as the nonprofit health insurer’s interim president and CEO between January and July of 2024.

Job and labor force surveys are starting to pick up on the early impacts of President Donald Trump's trade and tariff policies and other federal government shifts to Massachusetts, economists at MassBenchmarks said as they predicted a slowdown in growth.