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The shakeout in luxury retail that has claimed the parent company of Saks 5th Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus is about to hit shoppers. Saks Global announced Thursday that it will close all but 12 of its Saks OFF 5TH locations nationwide as part of its bankruptcy restructuring. The company will also shutter the…

Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem as ever more microchips run our lives. “We need medical equipment,” the pilot of a JetBlue passenger jet announced over the radio to air traffic control. His plane, an Airbus A320 commercial airliner had suddenly…

Plenty of observers already had doubts that, as Donald Trump put it on President’s Day, the U.S. has entered a “new golden age of prosperity.” Now, with the Supreme Court ruling negating a wide swath of the Trump tariffs, an already gloomy outlook has suddenly become much darker. The new 10-year budget forecasts from the…

The average price of diesel fuel hit $5.04 a gallon nationwide Tuesday, the latest fallout from soaring crude oil prices brought on by Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil transit route. Diesel fuel is the refined product of crude oil and biomass materials, and it is used around the world to…

The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles—at least here in the United States—continues to unwind. Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as well as Fiat, Peugeot, and others, announced that it has “reset” its business to adapt to reality, which comes with a rather painful $26.2 billion…