Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter sent every weekday morning. Walmart will likely put its tariff refunds toward lowering store prices, executives said on Thursday, as they described shoppers who are increasingly anxious
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, the most far-reaching crackdown on massively popular services like Kalshi and
Rubberball/Mike Kemp/Getty Images/Brand X It's a bit weird to think of dating or marriage as a market — but this is a newsletter that tries to make sense of the world through economics. And, like any market, shifts in supply and demand can reshape romantic outcomes in pretty profound ways.
Marty Davis built Cambria from a family enterprise into the leading U.S. maker of engineered quartz countertops. The company sells high-end slabs made in Minnesota and has helped make quartz a mainstream material for kitchens and bathrooms.
Despite steep prices and a tight market that pushed the average first-time buyer age toward 40, a growing slice of Gen Z—people in their 20s—are becoming homeowners. They remain a small share of buyers overall, but their numbers are rising and their strategies differ from previous generations.
TOKYO — The packaging on some snacks in Japan is turning a somber black-and-white, as the war in Iran disrupts the supply of an
