Marketplace Stories

Domestic shipping lanes are not immune to geopolitical events and the shipping challenges that follow.

As climate change drives hotter, drier summers, vineyard owners are turning to grape varietals more suited to warmer weather.

After years of pouring money into private credit, high-profile defaults and AI jitters have investors running for the exits.

Walmart says the tool will save its employees a lot of time, but customers are worried that digital labels in the aisles will lead to dynamic pricing.

The natural gas surplus in the U.S. could wind up supercharging demand for data centers built here instead of Europe or the Middle East.

Beaver County’s population has been declining since the steel mill there closed 40 years ago. The shift to plastic manufacturing isn’t panning out, so some residents are investing in a different kind of economic model.

The war in Iran has cost the global oil supply roughly 15 million barrels a day, or 15%, so far. A shock that poses a “major, major threat” to the global economy, said Fatih Birol, the head of the the International Energy Agency.

Prediction markets are regulated by the federal Commodities Futures Trading Commission, even in states that don’t allow gambling. That could spark a legal battle to define an industry with little oversight in fields from sports to national security.

Remember how people were switching careers left and right early in the pandemic? Here’s one update, years later.

Ellen Cushing at The Atlantic explains the product drop model and why every brand seems to be doing it — from Trader Joe’s to Crocs.