Business
How Fed Rates Influence Mortgages, Credit Cards, Savings and More
The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key rate steady on Wednesday, after a series of cuts that lowered rates by a full percentage…
Kim Browne
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Business
Trump’s Tariffs Scramble Fed’s Interest Rate Calculus
The Federal Reserve’s efforts to orchestrate a “soft landing” for the United States economy are facing a torrent of uncertainty as the…
Politics
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump
Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark…
Politics
The F.D.A. Upgraded a Recall of Some Lay’s Potato Chips. Here’s What to Know.
The Food and Drug Administration has upgraded a recall of 6,344 bags of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips to its highest level of severity,…
Business
What to Watch at the Federal Reserve’s First Meeting of 2025
The Federal Reserve is set to stand pat at its first gathering of 2025, pressing pause on interest rate cuts as policymakers take stock of…
News
Democrats to Question Commerce Nominee’s Web of Financial Interests
Howard Lutnick, a wealthy donor who President Trump has picked to lead the Commerce Department, will face questioning about his financial…
Business
Frontier Airlines Offers to Buy Spirit Airlines, Again
Frontier Airlines on Wednesday said that it offered to buy Spirit Airlines three years after the failure of a previous proposed deal.…
Politics
Shadows of Musk in the Government’s Buyouts Plan
The “Fork in the Road” subject line sent from an email on Tuesday to millions of federal employees may have been puzzling at first. The…
News
U.K. Government Backs Heathrow Expansion in Push for Faster Growth
Rachel Reeves, Britain’s top finance official, on Wednesday laid out plans to revive the country’s flagging economy, including supporting…
Business
Trump Is Eyeing Greenland. His Commerce Nominee Has Financial Ties There.
As President Trump argues the acquisition of Greenland is key to the economic security of the United States, he is flanked by wealthy…
News
DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working
When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in…
Culture
Sundance Made Park City the It Town. Now, It’s Moving.
Amid all the talk of films, fires and the state of the Oscar race, one question has dominated Sundance 2025: Where will the festival move?…
News
Leaving the W.H.O. Could Hurt Americans on a Range of Health Matters
President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization could have harsh consequences for countries…
News
Cloud vs. Virtual: What You Don't Know Could Cost You
Are you trying to figure out the whole cloud computing vs. virtualization thing, huh? It’s a big deal, especially if you want to save cash…
Business
Texas Business Boom: Start Your LLC Without the Headache
Thinking about starting a business in Texas? You’re not alone. With its booming economy and business-friendly climate, Texas is a top…
Business
Starbucks Reports Weak Earnings as It Tries to Woo Back Customers
Since taking over as chief executive of Starbucks last fall, Mr. Niccol has tried to come up with fixes for the many challenges facing the…
Business
Kenichiro Yoshida Will Step Down as C.E.O. of Sony
The chief executive of Sony Corp., Kenichiro Yoshida, who oversaw the company’s transformation from a consumer electronics brand into a…
News
Typhoon Yagi Scrambles Vietnam’s Lunar New Year Tradition
In Hanoi and other Vietnamese cities at this time of year, potted kumquat trees fastened to motorbike seats dodge and weave through…
Politics
Trump Fired E.E.O.C. Commissioners in Late-Night Purge
Two of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s three Democratic commissioners said on Tuesday that they had been removed from their…
News
New CVS App Lets Customers Unlock Cabinets to Pick Up Products
Customers at some CVS stores will no longer have to push a button and wait for a clerk to unlock one of those glass cabinets to get the…
News
Jay Mazur, Zealous Advocate for Garment Workers, Dies at 92
Jay Mazur, a blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader who was president of American garment workers’ unions in the 1980s and ’90s, a…
Politics
Karoline Leavitt Invites Content Creators to the White House Press Briefing
In the delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the seating chart is the be-all, end-all…
Politics
G.M. Has Plans Ready for Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs
General Motors executives are closely tracking President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but the…
News
Do DeepSeek’s A.I. Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed?
The United States has worked steadily over the past three years to limit China’s access to the cutting edge computer chips that power…