Marketplace Stories

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.

This NCAA “March Madness” tournament has had fewer upsets, with larger budgets at the top. The NCAA’s new financial structure could be the reason.

The number of plasma centers in the country more than doubled between 2014 and 2021, and they’re increasingly opening up in the suburbs.

In the month since the war in Iran began, the global price of coal has jumped more than 20%.

Businesses that rely on aluminum are deciding whether to absorb the costs or pass them on to their customers. To make that decision, many are drawing from their experiences with tariffs.

A wave of consolidation is reshaping the middle aisles of the grocery store, as conglomerates sell off food brands to focus on their core businesses. Experts say as fewer companies control more of the market, it gets easier for them to raise prices.