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Disclosures Reveal Companies’ Early Reactions to U.S. Tariff Policy

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The financial markets have had about a month to digest the impact of the federal government’s new tariffs on the outlook for the global economy. Meanwhile, individual companies have been sorting out what the new tariffs on goods imported fr...

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Walgreens Deal Leads Parade of Take-Private Transactions

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Flu season has hit the United States with a vengeance this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting sharp year-over-year increases in its estimates of indicators such as flu-related hospitalizations for the 2024-202...

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FTC Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Is the Latest to Lack Transparency

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It began as an avant-garde crusade in the Yale Law Journal. Now Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has made the long-awaited announcement that the agency – along with 17 states – has filed an antitrust suit against online-retailing be...

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Big Tech Cases Part of Larger Antitrust Campaign

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President Biden’s administration doesn’t share much in common with its predecessor – from temperament to policy positions to governing style. One notable exception, however, appears to be their willingness to take on one of big tech’s bigge...

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Baristas of the World, Unite?

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A Starbucks coffee shop in Buffalo, New York, seems like an unlikely place for a labor movement to start. However, many observers think a vote by store employees to unionize is a sign of more to come. We wrote last month about the growing m...

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