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Tariffs are threatening the accuracy of fall fashion trends by forcing earlier clothing shipments amid supply-chain headaches, Urban Outfitters CEO says

“The further out someone tries to predict the future, the more incorrect the prediction will be,” one supply-chain expert said. “That's where we...

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T.J. Maxx and Marshalls can ‘insulate’ themselves from tariffs because their business model is scooping up other retailers’ unsold inventory

Amid concerns of empty shelves as a result of tariff-induced shipping changes, TJX saw a 7% increase in inventory per store.

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AI in the workplace is nearly 3 times more likely to take a woman’s job as a man’s, UN report finds

The gender split could be one reason men feel much more confident that “if they use AI, they'll still get all the benefits,” a Harvard Business...

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Managers are more likely to deny promotions to workers who unplug after work hours, even though they know it’s better for productivity, study finds

“This is bad for everybody,” said Eva Buechel, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Southern California.

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Elon Musk is being sued for allegedly not paying swing state voters the $100 he promised them to sign a petition

The lawsuit’s plaintiffs said more than 100 potential class members are collectively owed $5 million by Musk and his America PAC.

16.05.2025 5

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Trump is playing a ‘game of chicken’ with Tim Cook over Apple’s India production to pressure for ‘full-blown’ U.S. manufacturing, analyst says

“It's just saying, ‘I think we can squeeze a little bit more out of you,’” Morningstar technology analyst William Kerwin told Fortune.

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Nvidia’s huge deal with AI startup Humain puts Saudi Arabia at ‘the front of the line’ of global chip customers, Dan Ives says

As the Trump administration prioritizes partnerships with the Mideast, China emerges as the ‘big loser,’ the Wedbush analyst told Fortune.

14.05.2025 3

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Norway Wealth Fund is freezing hiring to focus on AI use, despite research showing AI projects seldom offer a return in investment

CEO Nicolai Tangen told Fortune the task of monitoring the risks of its 9,000 investments now takes minutes thanks to its AI.

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Trump calls emptying U.S. ports a ‘good thing’ despite supply-chain panic because ‘that means we lose less money’

The president has repeatedly claimed the U.S. has a $1 trillion trade deficit with China, though economists argue a trade deficit isn’t inherently...

09.05.2025 2

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Americans rushing to buy cars might get stuck with high interest rates and bad loan terms

As President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs go into effect, about 20% of car loans are now for seven-year terms, according to Edmunds.

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Howard Lutnick says Trump’s tariffs will create ‘great jobs of the future’—fixing factory robots. Labor experts disagree

The plan to resurrect the industrial boom of the early 20th century has long odds of succeeding, Rutgers professor Eric Blanc said.

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Elon Musk reportedly said last year he no longer wanted to be Tesla CEO but worried no one could replace him or his vision for the company

The EV maker began looking last month for a new CEO to replace Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

02.05.2025 8

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Tariffs threaten a pharmaceuticals shortage, as 95% of ibuprofen comes from China

Apollo chief economist Torsten Sløk predicted “empty shelves” in the next few weeks as a result of tariff-induced supply chain disruptions.

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Trump’s first 100 days in office have cost Elon Musk $113 billion of his net worth

The Tesla CEO has lost 25% of his wealth as he nears the end of his tenure as a “special government employee.”

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A quarter of U.S. consumers are now financing groceries with buy now, pay later as economic pressures mount, survey says

More than 40% of buy now, pay later users made a late payment in the past year, up from 34% the year before, according to data from Lending Tree.

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DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone

Elon Musk’s efforts to slash federal spending are costing the government in lost productivity and tax revenue, workforce and policy experts claim.

27.04.2025 10

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Trump’s trade war has already sparked a massive cancellation of shipments from China to the U.S. 

The Port of Los Angeles, the largest port in the U.S., predicts a 35% drop in shipments, nearly all from China, in a matter of weeks.

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Chipotle CEO warns ‘the consumer is sitting on the sideline,’ leading to the chain’s first same-store sales decline since 2020

The fast-casual chain’s quarterly revenue fell short of expectations, due in part to more cautious consumers.

24.04.2025 8

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Philip Morris shrugs off economic volatility as Zyn shipments reach new heights—skyrocketing more than 50% year-over-year

The tobacco giant raised profit guidance for the year, betting on the booming sales of the nicotine pouches.

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UnitedHealth spent $1.7 million on executive security last year, 4 times the corporate average. Experts expect the figure to keep climbing

UnitedHealth Group reported its executive security compensation months after the CEO of health insurance arm UnitedHealthcare was fatally shot in...

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Trump’s feud with Harvard has fueled a ‘wealth spiral effect’ that could spook ultra-wealthy Boston residents into spending less, policy expert says

Threats to freeze funding and revoke the storied university’s tax-exempt status may create a self-fulfilling prophecy of a spending pullback.

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QVC CEO downplays tariff panic with silver lining, saying ‘all retailers are experiencing this together’ and the levies ‘shouldn’t preference’ one company over another

“We may compete differently, but the fundamentals of what we do are not going to change,” David Rawlinson II said in a New York Times interview.

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Starbucks will now require workers to ditch their colorful shirts in favor of black tops and neutral pants

When CEO Brian Niccol’s tenure began last September, he vowed to make steps to get “back to Starbucks” and return stores to their cozy roots.

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DOGE’s access to the payroll system of 276,000 federal employees puts government on path to have ‘unprecedented power and control’ over Americans’ information, experts say

The Elon Musk–led advisory’s continued retrieval of sensitive information raises questions about the group’s long-term goals and the legality of...

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Moderna and Novavax shares plunge after key FDA official steps down, citing discord with RFK Jr. who he says ‘wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies’

Massive cuts to personnel and funding within the Department of Health and Human Services presents a headache for vaccine approval and development,...

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Top Trump aide in Signal chat was in Russia while the text stream was active—but denies he had personal or government-issued phone with him

Special envoy Steve Witkoff was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 13, at the same time he was in an active Signal group...

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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says it’s not the speed of the Trump administration’s changes that pose a danger to U.S., it’s the ‘unwarranted’ risks

“Governments are not companies,” Hoffman said. “You actually have to say, ‘We take less risk here, even at the price of some inefficiency.’”

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Tesla mega-bull Dan Ives warns ‘the clock struck midnight’ for Elon Musk as he begs CEO to step back from DOGE

The Wedbush Securities managing director said Tesla’s recent setbacks have spiraled into a “brand tornado crisis moment.”

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Nvidia is adding a new chip to Taco Bell, which will test Jensen Huang’s AI to take drive-thru orders

Taco Bell’s parent company will use Jensen Huang’s AI to count cars in drive-thru lines and suggest menu items to customers that take less time to...

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Bill Gates reportedly warned Trump his foundation won’t be able to fund global health gaps if the administration keeps making major cuts

Gates Foundation officials have previously said “no foundation” can effectively replace the U.S. government’s foreign aid funding.

18.03.2025 7

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Employment for computer programmers in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since 1980—years before the internet existed

The job drop’s correlation with the rise of ChatGPT has led some to believe we’re seeing how AI will impact future coding jobs.

17.03.2025 6

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After repeated claims of taking over Greenland, the Trump administration is now asking Denmark for extra eggs amid shortage

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has formally requested Denmark ramp up egg exports as American poultry farms battle the bird flu.

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Satya Nadella’s embrace of vulnerability demonstrates a powerful tool CEOs can use to gain trust with investors, study finds

A new working study indicates investors are more likely to have confidence in a company if the CEO offers candor.

13.03.2025 6

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White House says Trump will make good on promise to ‘buy a brand new Tesla’ as a show of confidence in Elon Musk

The president said he would buy a Tesla Tuesday morning amid the boycotts of the EV maker.

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Fired NIH workers fear bleak job prospects in the private sector because their research is too specific to be retrofitted: ‘No VC is going to fund that’

Employees told Fortune finding a job would require them to apply for positions for which they were overqualified or not closely aligned with their...

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Appeals from fired federal workers have skyrocketed more than 2,100% at one watchdog since Trump and DOGE took charge

The Merit System Protections Board usually receives about 100 cases every week. In the last week of February, it received 2,171.

10.03.2025 6

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ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it

A study on how to “calm down” chatbots could advance how AI is applied in mental health interventions, according to the authors.

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Fired NIH workers lost their ‘dream job.’ Due to a Kafkaesque appeals process and slim private-sector offerings, their futures may be in jeopardy, too

“We are risking an entire generation of medical professionals, researchers, and scientists … and it's a future disaster waiting to happen,”...

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The ‘Trump bump’ has effectively disappeared after tariffs spook Wall Street

Analysts warn the slumping markets could be a canary in the coal mine for broader economic concerns.

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Target CEO joins swarm of Fortune 500 executives warning of bigger bills as Trump’s tariff fallout hits the grocery aisle

Target shoppers can expect to see price increases on produce “over the next couple of days,” boss Brian Cornell said on Tuesday.

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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns the U.S. won’t ‘be competitive in manufacturing with China in our lifetime’

The Bridgewater Associates founder argued China will continue to have the edge in producing applications for AI chips compared to the U.S.

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SpaceX’s Starlink could have some advantages over Verizon in bid for FAA contract takeover, experts say. It could also trigger a slew of conflict-of-interest lawsuits from competitors

The FAA is reportedly considering ending a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to update its communication technology and instead award it to Elon...

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Barclays ex-CEO Jes Staley mounts fight to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein, contesting the UK regulator banning him from running a bank

The Financial Conduct Authority fined Staley $2.2 million and banned him from senior banking roles after finding he misled regulators about his...

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Fyre Festival 2 tickets are on sale for up to $1.1 million after founder served prison time for defrauding investors of the first event

"I'm sure many people think I'm crazy for doing this again,” 33-year-old founder Billy McFarland said. "But I feel I'd be crazy not to do it again.”

26.02.2025 9

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U.S. Customs in Texas has stopped more than 90 people from smuggling eggs into the country this year as bird flu ratchets up prices

There’s been a 29% year-over-year increase in detained eggs at U.S. ports of entry from October to February, according to U.S. Customs and Border...

25.02.2025 7

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Elon Musk’s directive to federal workers to explain their productivity or get the ax could take them 165,000 hours of their workdays to complete

The time needed for all federal workers to reply to Musk's email could cost the government about $8.5 million in wages.

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Five major airlines are suing the U.S. government over a rule that punished them for damaging passengers’ wheelchairs

More than 11,500 wheelchairs and scooters were mishandled by airlines in 2023, according to the Department of Transportation.

22.02.2025 10

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Amazon just dethroned Walmart in quarterly revenue for the first time ever with a bombshell $187.8 billion in sales

Walmart held the top spot in quarterly sales for more than a decade.

21.02.2025 3

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Palantir stock soared 600% on deportation policies, AI, and its contracts with the U.S. military—but Trump sent it spiraling after a call to slash costs at the Pentagon

The software company with close ties to the U.S. military saw its stock plummet by double digits in less than two days.

20.02.2025 8

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The USDA is scrambling to rehire officials working to curb the spread of bird flu after firing them

The H5N1 avian flu has impacted more than 160 million birds, resulting in the deaths of 20 million egg-laying chickens since 2022.

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