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2 days ago | 
post-gazette.com | Steve Bohnel |Tim Grant
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Pleasant Hills location is one of 26 to close across the United States, according to court filings Joe Lister Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 25, 2025 7:28 PM Citing rising costs from inflation and tariffs, a Pittsburgh-area home décor and furnishings store is closing. The At Home store in Pleasant Hills is one of 26 locations set to close across the United States, according to court filings. At Home, which has three other locations in the Pittsburgh area, is in the...
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1 week ago | 
mahoningmatters.com | Tim Grant
While markets may be ruled by numbers, investors' emotions are still at the wheel. Emory Redd, a senior portfolio strategist at Federated Hermes, Downtown, says way too many investors are letting fear and headlines drive their decisions - and it's costing them.
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1 week ago | 
post-gazette.com | Tim Grant
While markets may be ruled by numbers, investors’ emotions are still at the wheel. Emory Redd, a senior portfolio strategist at Federated Hermes, Downtown, says way too many investors are letting fear and headlines drive their decisions — and it’s costing them.
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1 week ago | 
post-gazette.com | Gus Faucher |Tim Grant
Recession risks have increased as higher tariffs are set to weigh on the U.S. economy over the next few months. According to the June Blue Chip survey of economic forecasters (PNC is a participant), the probability of recession over the next 12 months is 41% as of June, up from 26% at the beginning of 2025.
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1 week ago | 
post-gazette.com | Anya Litvak |Madaleine Rubin |Steve Bohnel |Tim Grant
The Mon Valley can finally celebrate. A year and a half after a deal between Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. and U.S. Steel was announced, Nippon said Friday evening that it had signed a national security agreement put forward by the U.S. government — the last obstacle in its $14.9 billion takeover of the Pittsburgh-based company. The path to approval was winding and constantly shifting.
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2 weeks ago | 
centredaily.com | Tim Grant
One a rainy Sunday in Squirrel Hill, the aroma of fresh cooking mixed with the buzz of celebration as volunteers and nonprofit partners opened the doors of a new community kitchen on Murray Avenue. "This became more than just providing meals for people who really need it. There's a community that formed in the process of making meals," said Chezky Rosenfeld, executive director of Our Giving Kitchen.
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2 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Tim Grant
One a rainy Sunday in Squirrel Hill, the aroma of fresh cooking mixed with the buzz of celebration as volunteers and nonprofit partners opened the doors of a new community kitchen on Murray Avenue. “This became more than just providing meals for people who really need it. There’s a community that formed in the process of making meals,” said Chezky Rosenfeld, executive director of Our Giving Kitchen.
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3 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Tim Grant |Stan Choe |Will Weissert |Chris Megerian
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers slowed hiring last month, but still added a solid 139,000 jobs amid uncertainty over Trump’s trade wars. Hiring fell from a revised 147,000 in April, the Department of Labor said Friday. The unemployment rate stayed at 4.2%. Trump’s aggressive and unpredictable policies — especially his sweeping taxes on imports — have muddied the outlook for the economy and the job market and raised fears that the American economy could be headed toward recession.
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3 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Tim Grant
Eric Hashim isn’t just watching the Trump administration’s trade wars unfold from the sidelines — he’s racing against the clock to keep his import business from being crushed by it. His company, Lock-Jaw Premium Adhesives & Films in Tarentum, relies heavily on products made in Chinese factories. So he’s been working in overdrive to fill orders as fast as possible during the 90-day pause on Chinese tariffs before a 145% tariff snaps back into place in August.
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3 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Tim Grant |Steve Bohnel |Madaleine Rubin
Justin Guido/Post-Gazette Mark Burton Bloomberg Futures tracking the prices U.S. manufacturers pay for aluminum and steel surged after President Donald Trump said he will double tariffs on the metals this week. Contracts linked to the all-in price of aluminum delivered to the U.S. Midwest jumped 54% to the highest since at least 2013 on the Comex exchange in New York on Monday — offering an early glimpse of the much higher costs for American factories, with import levies set to rise to 50%...
