Industries

Inflation & Prices

Walmart Blames Upcoming Price Hikes on Tariffs

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Walmart says price hikes are coming this month and in the summer. You can thank tariffs on imports for them.

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Autos

GM Pitches Tariff Contingency Plan to Skeptical Investors

The stakes could hardly be larger for General Motors, which pitched a simple message to investors: We have a plan and the future is bright.

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Healthcare

LinkedIn Cofounder Hoffman’s New AI Oncology Startup Raises $25 Million

Behind the blinding white light of Monday’s trillion–dollar AI wipeout that was a spot of unabashedly good AI news.

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Healthcare

Novo Nordisk May Have Another Blockbuster on its Hands

On Friday, the Danish pharma giant released the stellar results from a phase 1/2 trial for a once-weekly jab in its pipeline.

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Industries

Thinning Cattle Herds Drive US Beef Prices to Record Highs

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US cattle inventories have been battered by drought, leading to record beef prices and a long road to bringing them down.

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Consumer

Airbnb Reinvents Itself to Regain Rizz

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Aibnb is branching out beyond short term rentals as it faces falling travel demand and regulatory pushback from some cities.

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Industries

KPMG Wants to Open Up its Very Own Law Firm

Rest assured, competitors Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and PricewaterhouseCoopers are likely to follow in KPMG’s tracks.

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Energy

What Does It Mean to Live Under a National Energy Emergency?

President Donald Trump used the first hours of his second term in office Monday to make the emergency declaration.

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Technology

The State of the Billionaire Space Race

Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.

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Healthcare

UnitedHealth CEO Replaced by Predecessor as Stock Plummets

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UnitedHealth Group has called in its CEO to deal with a Medicare Advantage program that’s crunching margins.

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