Business

March 31, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

EASTERN PROVINCE, Zambia — “How old do you think these chickens are?” Levy Phiri asked the crowd after scooping four multicolored birds out of a crate and setting them down i...

March 31, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

MONTALCINO, Italy — All it took was an all-caps social media threat by President Donald Trump to impose a 200% tariff on European wine for the shipments of many Brunellos, Chiantis and p...

March 24, 2025 | 10 MIN READ

On March 4, a Trump appointee at the Department of Veterans Affairs circulated a memo to senior leadership. The agency, it said, would “move out aggressively” to improve efficiency...

March 24, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

WINDSOR, Ontario — After 142 years in the business of milling and packaging rice and rice flour, Dainty Foods was on a roll.

March 17, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

ÉPERNAY, France — French Champagne producers do nearly $1 billion worth of business with the United States every year. But on Friday in Épernay, the world capital of sparklin...

March 17, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

After climbing into a Tesla Model S last week, President Donald Trump pledged to buy one. The next day, Fox News host Sean Hannity said he had bought a Model S Plaid to support the embattled c...

March 10, 2025 | 10 MIN READ

FREEHOLD, N.J. — The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, New Jersey, used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men — day laborers, al...

March 10, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

As President Donald Trump puts new tariffs on goods from China and threatens a trade war with allies such as Mexico and Canada, one global company is likely to suffer less than most of its com...

March 3, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

For more than 1,000 years, the primary purpose of Britain’s Royal Mint has been to make coins. It has forged into metal the likenesses of England’s kings and queens from Alfred the...

March 3, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

From her home in Phoenix, Erica Campbell is waiting for a cargo vessel from China to deliver a shipment of thousands of Jesus rattle dolls, tin Easter eggs, religious-themed baby swaddle blank...

February 24, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

For 15 years, Elizabeth Spiridakis Olson used a matte lip pencil in a shade of red called Dragon Girl. In her view, it was “one of the great reds, and the perfect consistency.”...

February 24, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Even by Washington standards, the second Trump presidency has begun in frenetic fashion: mass firings at federal agencies, tariff threats against allies and foes alike, and haggling over how t...

February 17, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Liquor lobbyists gathered in a ritzy private club on a recent rainy evening in Brussels to swill cocktails with names like “Toasts Not Tariffs” and fret over the potential disaster...

February 17, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

The world economy was already grappling with a perplexing assortment of variables, from geopolitical conflicts and a slowdown in China to the evolving complexities of climate change. Then, Pre...

February 10, 2025 | 10 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social m...

February 10, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

SEATTLE — Wall Street went into panic mode about two weeks ago after the Chinese startup DeepSeek released an artificial intelligence system that appeared to be radically more efficient...