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One of the most anticipated IPOs of the year is getting closer to fruition - the SpaceX public offering that could be valued in the range of about $2 trillion or so, depending on how it all turns out....

One of the most anticipated IPOs of the year is getting closer to fruition - the SpaceX public offering that could be valued in the range of about $2 trillion or so, depending on how it all turns out....

The ramifications of the slow, grinding expansion of the war in the Gulf are coming into view, and some economists are displaying growing alarm that the markets may not fully appreciate. Yes, US crude...

Monday has been a day of some chaos at major U.S.

Apologies for this getting out here a day late, folks. But we're starting to see the ways in which a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz - the linchpin for one-fifth of the world's oil and natur...

The business world is taking notice of the growing conflict in the Middle East, where Iran has retaliated against joint U.S.

The world's attention is focused on the Middle East after the United States and Israel attacked Iran with air strikes in an operation that President Donald Trump says will last four to five weeks. The...

To quote Ron Burgundy, that escalated quickly. Let's begin with the saga of Hims & Hers and the $49 (introductory) weight-loss pill that was released with great fanfare on Thursday (see Amina N.

Welcome back to another edition, where we highlight our scoop from the past week that Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in line to merge, and pretty soon, in fact. In a piece broken by Echo Jing Wang, we...

After weeks without any word from major corporations in Minnesota, the state's chamber of commerce pulled together a letter from more than 60 chief executives from the state calling for a de-escalatio...

Back on a Tuesday post Martin Luther King day after a hiatus, so welcome back to everyone in this already busy new year. One of the hallmarks of the second Trump term is very little in the way of push...

ALT: a jets football player is kneeling on the field with his head down

It's been a momentous year in business in the United States. The markets, very broadly, had to get used to a new and aggressive White House that involved itself in various facets of business - be it M...

Another edition of the Business of America! Just highlighting some excellent work of late, especially around #Tesla #AI #Intel.

The Hollywood wars continued all throughout the weekend and into today -- with Paramount Skydance attemping to trump (word not used lightly) the bid by Netflix for Warner Bros Discovery in what would ...

An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies, as prices soar for the unglamorous but essential compone...

For the past week the focus has been around what people are buying, if they're buying, and where. And the stress the consumer is experiencing cannot be ignored even as the holiday sales figures so far...

Welp. The government is open again after a protracted standoff where almost nobody got what they wanted.

A few things came to a head over the week — not the least of which was the eventual consummation of a deal for biotech company Metsera by Pfizer after a series of bids from rival Novo Nordisk that got...

This may be the first time in history where someone bought Tylenol to give themselves a headache. But Kimberly Clark might have done it with a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the Tylenol maker that ha...

We're headed into a monster week of earnings that will feature a total of 172 S&P 500 companies - including the technology, pharma and industrial giants. We'll see how the AI economy is chugging along...

Sometimes it's hard to keep just talking about tariffs, so it's good every few weeks when Taylor Swift releases another album that gives business writers something else to talk about besides that. The...

Are leveraged buyouts on the cusp of another moment? It's a question that has to be asked after Electronic Arts — the video-game giant known for Madden NFL and a host of other games — said it was goin...

The relationship companies have between governments is only growing. China on Monday said Nvidia violated an anti-monopoly law, which means more investigations into the world's top chipmaker by market...

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I'm back! Yes, I took two weeks instead of one - and next week there will be no newsletter, because of Labor Day, but too much is happening to avoid chiming in here. Just a few hours ago, President Tr...

Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by now. But because of surging import tariffs, they haven't.

This was naturally a very difficult week in New York and for the business community. As many of us at Reuters have reported on, a gunman killed four people at a Park Avenue office, including an execut...

Time for a change of pace. Yes, there are plenty of news around tariffs - the United States and European Union have figured out a trade deal, after all - but let's first look at what we expect this we...

Welcome back! Yes, we are talking earnings. Yes, tariffs.

One of the key facets of business coverage this newsletter tries to highlight is just how businesses are responding to the world around them. To be sure, that's mostly been about tariffs of late, but ...

Another week, another set of unclear tariff deadlines, but we're going to focus on the creeping fallout from the ongoing trade war, specifically around the endeavors by some small companies to make mo...

Think inflation isn't biting into Americans' budgets? People are making their own weight loss drugs because of it. Some people are going so far as to use drugs that are in clinical trials and not even...

Hello. It's hard even in a business-focused newsletter not to turn towards the Middle East following the escalation of tension with the U.

This week in The Business of America we're thinking about friction — that is, whether the cost of doing business is rising as a result of trade policy and other aspects of U.S.