Alina Selyukh

1 day ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Alina Selyukh

Athletic retailer Dick's Sporting Goods plans to buy Foot Locker, the seller of shoes in many a shopping mall, for about $2.4 billion. Dick's is the largest sports retail chain in the U.S. It's been on strong financial footing, but it doesn't have reach outside the country. Foot Locker, for its part, has struggled as a mall-based chain, but it has a massive footprint of stores — about 2,400 across 20 countries. Dick's says Foot Locker has a broad range of shoppers to bring to the chain.

3 weeks ago | kuow.org | Alina Selyukh

A customer shops for groceries at a Chicago supermarket. AP The companies that make our food and home essentials are officially sounding alarms about what lies ahead for the U.S. shopper. "Relative to where we were three months ago, we probably aren't feeling as good about the consumer now," PepsiCo's Chief Financial Officer Jamie Caulfield told investors on a call Thursday.

3 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Alina Selyukh

The companies that make our food and home essentials are officially sounding alarms about what lies ahead for the U.S. shopper. "Relative to where we were three months ago, we probably aren't feeling as good about the consumer now," PepsiCo's Chief Financial Officer Jamie Caulfield told investors on a call Thursday. The largest consumer conglomerates are cutting their financial forecasts for the year, predicting lower sales and profits than before.

3 weeks ago | wrvo.org | Tamara Keith |Asma Khalid |Alina Selyukh

Donald Trump has repeatedly said that "tariff" is "one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary." In his administration's first 100 days, Trump has introduced sweeping tariffs with a goal to reduce America's trade deficit with foreign countries and to increase domestic manufacturing. This episode: senior White House correspondents Tamara Keith and Asma Khalid and business correspondent Alina Selyukh.

3 weeks ago | krcu.org | Alina Selyukh

The companies that make our food and home essentials are officially sounding alarms about what lies ahead for the U.S. shopper. "Relative to where we were three months ago, we probably aren't feeling as good about the consumer now," PepsiCo's Chief Financial Officer Jamie Caulfield told investors on a call Thursday. The largest consumer conglomerates are cutting their financial forecasts for the year, predicting lower sales and profits than before.