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4 days ago | 
miamiherald.com | Kevin Draper |Jack Nicas |NYT Business
Consider the soybean. A legume about a centimeter in size, it is eaten from the pod as edamame or processed into tofu, soy milk and other products. But that is not why it is one of the world’s most lucrative commodities. High in fat and protein, soybeans are what much of the world’s livestock eat. And now the humble crop is at the center of the trade war between the United States and China. The United States sells more soybeans to China, by value, than any other single product.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Colby Smith |NYT Business
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Tripp Mickle |Ana Swanson |Meaghan Tobin |Cade Metz |NYT Business
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two months after DeepSeek, China’s artificial intelligence star, rattled Washington and shook Wall Street, U.S. officials are taking steps to crack down on the Chinese startup and its support from America’s leading chipmaker, Nvidia. The Trump administration this week moved to restrict Nvidia’s sale of AI chips to China.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Colby Smith |NYT Business
As President Donald Trump’s trade policy has started to take shape, officials at the Federal Reserve have been more vocal about how such sweeping tariffs will affect the economy. Jerome Powell, the chair of the central bank, warned that levies of the scope and scale Trump is pursuing would most likely lead to even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected -- the makings of what’s known as a stagflationary shock.
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1 week ago | 
kentucky.com | Colby Smith |NYT Business
As President Donald Trump’s trade policy has started to take shape, officials at the Federal Reserve have been more vocal about how such sweeping tariffs will affect the economy. Jerome Powell, the chair of the central bank, warned that levies of the scope and scale Trump was pursuing would most likely lead to even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected -- the makings of what’s known as a stagflationary shock.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Keith Bradsher |NYT Business
BEIJING -- China shook the world in 2010 when it imposed an embargo on exports of crucial rare earth metals to Japan. Panicked Japanese executives appeared on television to warn that they were running out of the critical raw materials. The embargo, prompted by a territorial dispute, lasted only seven weeks. But it changed the global supply chain for these metals. When the embargo was over, China took forceful control of its mineral bounty.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Tara Siegel Bernard |NYT Business
Victims of sophisticated online scams are often dealt a double whammy. Not only is their money forever gone, but these stolen sums often generate giant tax bills when the funds are emptied from taxable retirement accounts. Many of these victims are often left wondering what sort of recourse they might have. Tax regulators recently provided some answers, clearing the way for more victims to seek a tax break on more solid footing.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Mark Landler |NYT Business
LONDON -- Vice President JD Vance predicted that President Donald Trump would make a trade deal with Britain, a country “he really loves,” a comforting sign for a British government that was stung to be placed under a 10% tariff by Trump. “He admires and loves the king. It is a very important relationship,” Vance said in an interview published Tuesday by a British news and opinion website, UnHerd, referring to King Charles III.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Ivan Penn |NYT Business
President Donald Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily declining for more than a decade. But the effort is likely to fail, energy experts said, because the fossil fuel faces some hurdles. The power that coal plants produce typically can’t compete with cheaper, cleaner alternatives. And many plants that burn coal are simply too old and would need extensive and expensive upgrades to continue running.
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1 week ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Cecilia Kang |Mike Isaac |David McCabe |NYT Business
EDITORS NOTE: EDS: SUBS top four grafs to update, PICKUP at graf starting "Meta's lawyers denied..."; SUBS beginning graf "The FTC argued that Zuckerberg..." through the end of story to update, revise and reorganize.); (ART ADV: With photos.); (With: META-TRIAL-ZUCKERBERG, META-DEALS-REVISITED WASHINGTON -- Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, took the witness stand Monday to defend his social media empire in a landmark antitrust trial that could dismantle a company that has transformed how the...
