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Apple has found its groove again. The iPhone maker’s stock hit $133.82 in early trading Monday, putting Apple less than $1 away from its intraday trading high of $134.54, reached in April 2015. Apple’s stock ended the day at $133.29, beating its previous record closing price of $133, set in February 2015. The stock …
Recent research suggests that when resources become limited, many business leaders’ inclinations are to become risk-averse and protect their own interests, fostering a culture of conservatism and prioritizing stability over innovation. In such circumstances, the emphasis often shifts toward preserving existing assets, reducing expenditures, and maintaining the status quo, which can hinder the organization’s …
Illustration: AJAY MOHANTY India and four other developing countries — Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, and Bangladesh — have opposed efforts by developed economies to categorise dispute cases at the World Trade Organization (WTO) into standard, complex, and extraordinarily complex, as part of the ongoing informal discussions for reforming the dispute settlement mechanism. …
Inflation cooled less than expected in January and showed worrying staying power after volatile food and fuel costs were stripped out — a reminder that bringing price increases under control remains a fraught, bumpy process. The overall Consumer Price Index was up 3.1 percent from a year earlier, which was down from 3.4 percent …
Upgrades to aging utility equipment and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have combined to drive up electricity costs across the country, with the national average increasing from one year to the next. As a New York Times business reporter, I have been looking into the impact of the rising costs of electricity on …
Today we’re publishing the second installment in our series on the Ken Chesebro document trove. Today’s piece provides a detailed look at just where ideas like fake electors and the central purported role of then-Vice President Mike Pence came from. And far more than almost anyone seems to have realized they started with Ken …
It’s not every day you see Thomas Massie drop Elizabeth Warren on her lying head so when this crossed our timeline you KNOW we had to snag it. Especially since she’s attacking TurboTax because she wants Americans to let the IRS do their taxes for them. No, really. Look at this hot mess: Every …
Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not the final year and two months of a campaign. The focus was largely on general election polls: Whether a Wall Street Journal …
The Senate early Tuesday morning passed a $95 billion aid package, which dedicated $60 billion of assistance to Ukraine—but not without objection from some Republican senators, including Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who filibustered through the night. Johnson’s objection? Certainly not the $15 billion of aid to Israel also included in the bill, or the …
Marcus Robinson listens intently at his Racial Justice Act hearing in 2012.The News & Observer, Shawn Rocco/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 1994, Marcus Robinson, who is black, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 killing …