Target CEO Brian Cornell and other retail chiefs had a “productive meeting” about tariffs on Monday with President Donald Trump.

The meeting, which included Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Home Depot CEO Ted Decker, was “to discuss the path forward on trade,” Target said in a statement. “We remain committed to delivering value for ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s trade war is threatening the global financial stability that’s kept banks and insurers safe since the 2008 crisis, the International Monetary Fund warned, as it urged policymakers to bolster their industries’ defenses.

The world has seen a sharp repricing of some assets and heightened volatility across stock, ...Read more

President Donald Trump met with top American retailers Monday to discuss the impact of tariffs on their businesses.

The meeting took place at the White House and included Target CEO Brian Cornell, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Home Depot CEO Ted Decker.

“We had a productive meeting with President Trump and our retail peers to discuss the ...Read more

A new study shows a decline in customer satisfaction with airlines and other travel firms, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

The decreased satisfaction comes amid a drop in travel, a shaky economy and concerns about the future for premium travel services, the study says.

Business travelers and other “high-value” ...Read more

DETROIT — Smart roads that enable vehicles to communicate with traffic infrastructure could help goods and people travel faster and be the key to unlocking innovation to help the United States compete with China, one Bank of America automotive analyst is suggesting.

Worries about China's economic activity and research and development are ...Read more

Boeing Co. agreed to sell its flight navigation unit and related assets to Thoma Bravo for $10.6 billion in cash, the first major portfolio transaction under Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg as he seeks to shore up the planemaker’s finances.

The deal involving the Jeppesen business also includes Boeing’s ForeFlight, AerData and ...Read more

Stellantis NV's Detroit Assembly Complex plants that build Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs will pause production next week, the latest of several plant cutbacks made by the automaker in recent weeks.

The Mack and Jefferson North facilities in east Detroit will halt production for the week of April 28, with Mack also scheduled to take...Read more

As U.S. politicians promise to rebuild American manufacturing with tariffs, the transformation of Filson, Seattle-born maker of rugged, high-end apparel, shows just how complicated that task could be.

At Filson’s flagship store-workshop on First Avenue South, visitors can still watch workers busily assembling the company’s $550 Filson ...Read more

Nearly 2 million California rooftop solar owners could lose the energy credits that help them cover what they spent to install the expensive climate-friendly systems under a proposed state bill.

The bill’s author, Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, D-Whittier, is a former executive at Southern California Edison and its parent company, Edison ...Read more

In late March, Isael Hermosillo received an ominous message from his supervisor around 7 a.m. ordering him to cancel all his meetings scheduled that day.

Hermosillo rushed to notify several locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers union as well as attorneys for Albertsons and Kroger that he would not be able to attend a session in Buena...Read more

Tesla has settled a lawsuit by a worker in its Fremont electric car factory who claimed she was harassed and discriminated against because she is Black.

Raina Pierce sued the automaker in 2022, alleging that her manager referred to the facility as “the plantation” and the “slave house,” and that her supervisor called her a racial slur ...Read more

Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay $300 million to settle allegations that it filled millions of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances and illegally billed federal programs such as Medicare for those medications, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

The federal government had alleged that ...Read more

Tariffs could cost the average American household $3,800 in 2025, according to The Budget Lab at Yale University. This estimate comes even as President Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs earlier this month, temporarily reducing most tariffs to 10% in the meantime, while maintaining higher rates for countries including China.

Tariffs — ...Read more

The U.S. government hasn’t broken up a company since AT&T in 1982. Now it’s trying to persuade a judge to make Alphabet Inc.’s Google next.

On Monday, Google began squaring off against the Justice Department and dozens of state attorneys general in a Washington court room over what changes U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta will order to ...Read more

Q: Loved seeing your “glove box” item in my East Bay Times today. Glove box is what my mom called it. Dad said “jockey box." What can you tell us about jockey box history? I’m 78 so my parents are long gone, but I like to say jockey box when my grown grandkids are in the car, just to hear their reaction and so I can tell family stories. ...Read more

When Stellantis NV Chairman John Elkann this week explained his concerns with costly U.S. tariffs, he made sure to draw a comparison with growing automotive powerhouse China.

Both the American and European auto sectors are struggling to navigate "extreme" policy and regulatory pressures — including the new import tariffs — as China's ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has adjusted shipments to China from the United States as a result of retaliatory tariffs, the Dearborn automaker confirmed.

Citing anonymous sources, The Wall Street Journal first reported the Blue Oval this week halted shipments completely of F-150 Raptor pickups, Mustang muscle cars and Bronco SUVs built in Michigan, as well ...Read more

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not proceed with agencywide job cuts, while a D.C. federal court weighs whether the terminations would violate a preliminary injunction blocking the agency from shutting down.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said from the bench Friday that a written ...Read more

With gold prices at record highs, jewelry collectors are in meltdown mode.

For weeks, they've been scouring their homes and cracking open their safes to retrieve vintage necklaces, family heirlooms and other expensive pieces containing the precious metal that can be melted for cash.

"It happens with every gold spike," said Jeff Clark, a market...Read more