D.C. region’s economy continues to slow, CBRE index warns

Effects from persistently higher interest rates, combined with falling federal spending locally, have continued to weaken the local economy, according to the latest numbers from CBRE Group Inc.’s index charting Greater Washington’s economic progress. CBRE’s researchers comb through thousands of data points on the state of labor, innovation, commercial real estate, residential real estate, political inertia, confidence and investor sentiment across the District, suburban Maryland and Northern…...