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Uncertainty About Economic Policy Is Hampering Business Decisions
It is an axiom heard countless times in business school lecture halls and on corporate earnings calls: Uncertainty is bad for business.…
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Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Everything: How to Bridge the Cost Gap
Medicare can cover most of your health care needs when you turn 65, but it doesn’t pay for everything. And one of the most significant…
Politics
What Happens to Global Trade If ‘the W.T.O. Is Toast’?
When President Trump announced he would impose new tariffs on imports from countries around the world, he launched a frontal attack on the…
Business
DeepSeek Doesn’t Scare OpenAI, Thanks to the ‘Jevons Paradox’
Economic jargon is usually confined to textbooks and business school seminars. But every once in a while, something happens in the world…
Business
Chevron to Lay Off Up to 20% of Staff
Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil and gas company, said on Wednesday that it would lay off as much as 20 percent of its work force, or…
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The Rising Price of Eggs Is Also Hurting Your Local Restaurant
Karen Huebner did not want to raise the price of omelets. Even as she was paying more for eggs week after week, she held prices steady on…
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Natural Gas Could Get Priority Over Renewable Energy in Largest U.S. Grid
Federal electricity regulators on Tuesday approved a proposal from the nation’s largest electric grid operator that could effectively give…
Business
CPI Report: Inflation Rose Unexpectedly in January
U.S. inflation rose to 3 percent in January, strengthening the case for the Federal Reserve to extend a pause on interest rate cuts. The…
Politics
Trump Softens Tone on Inflation After Pledging to Lower Prices
President Trump promised voters that, if elected, he would enact policies that would bring prices down on “Day 1” in office. But three…
Politics
How Trump’s Canadian Oil Tariff Would Hit U.S. Refineries
The largest refinery in the Midwest will have an unpalatable choice if President Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian oil: Pay more for the…
Politics
Steel and Aluminum Tariffs May Raise US Manufacturing Costs
America has seen this movie before: President Trump, who imposed stiff tariffs on Monday on imported steel and aluminum, did so once…
Business
PepsiCo Adding Healthier Snacks as Its North American Sales Dip
Amid a national debate on highly processed foods and the rise of weight-loss drugs, the snack and beverage giant PepsiCo is responding by…
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Three Years After Ukraine Invasion, Europe Still Deals With Energy Crisis
At a newly built dock along Germany’s Elbe River, tankers from the United States unload liquefied natural gas to fuel factories and homes.…
Politics
From Groceries to Cars, Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers
President Trump’s tariffs target countries that are major suppliers of a wide range of goods to the United States. For American families,…
Politics
Who Pays for Tariffs? Here’s What You Need to Know.
President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning Tuesday, companies bringing…
Business
Inflation Ticked Up in December, Fed’s Preferred Measure Shows
The Federal Reserve wants to see more evidence that inflation is easing before resuming interest rate cuts. The latest data presented a…
Business
High Inflation and New Tariffs Will Make the Fed’s Job Tougher
High inflation is stoking fresh debate about how the Federal Reserve should respond to President Trump’s sweeping plans to reorder the…
Politics
Rohit Chopra of CFPB Expected Trump to Fire Him Right Away, but He’s Hanging On
Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, expected to be fired soon after President Trump took office. More…
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.…
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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
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…
Business
Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers
The artificial intelligence boom has turbocharged demand for electricity, and everyone who is anyone in the U.S. energy industry wants a…
Politics
Oil Companies Embrace Trump, but Not ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
President Trump is swinging American energy policy sharply in favor of fossil fuels, but oil and gas companies say those changes won’t…
Politics
Trump’s Colombia Tariff Threat Startled Companies Trying to Rely Less on China
Before Sunday, Colombia was quietly emerging as a refuge for multinational brands seeking a stable place to make their products in a time…