Marketplace Stories

With more than 50 trade policy changes over the past 12 months, keeping the score on tariffs was no easy task — even for economists.

Rising costs for labor, ingredients and space is making it harder for one-off businesses to survive.

As federal spending on water infrastructure in the Colorado River basin dips under Trump, big companies like Procter & Gamble and Google are now making relatively small, targeted investments to fund that gap.

Analysts say the global oil market faces months of disruption from damaged infrastructure, a slow reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and drawn-down reserves.

According to a new Dallas Fed survey, half of oil executives in Texas and the surrounding states say they’re not planning to build any more wells.

We hear from a chocolate maker, a skate shop owner, and a steel tubing supplier about what tariffs have meant for them over the past 12 months.

The sustainable shoe company was once valued at $4 billion. But now Allbirds is being sold to the brand management firm American Exchange Group for just $39 million.

Uncertain tariff policy has been “very paralyzing” to some companies over the last year, says UChicago economist Matt Notowidigdo.

Since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz, other countries have turned to each other to adapt.

Retail sales rose 0.6% last month. But the data predates the war in Iran, and experts say the real test for consumer spending is still coming.