Coffee Prices Are Soaring, but Growers Aren’t Celebrating
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Coffee Prices Are Soaring, but Growers Aren’t Celebrating

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines These should be wonderful times at Finca El Puente, a coffee plantation carved into the mountains of southwestern Honduras. On world markets, the price of ordinary coffee has more than doubled over the past year. The specialty varieties of coffee harvested at the…

Inflation Stayed Sticky in January, Keeping Fed Rate Cuts at Bay
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Inflation Stayed Sticky in January, Keeping Fed Rate Cuts at Bay

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines U.S. inflation rose to 3 percent in January, strengthening the case for the Federal Reserve to extend a pause on interest rate cuts. The Consumer Price Index unexpectedly ticked higher from a year earlier, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on…

Trump Softens Tone on Inflation After Pledging to Lower Prices
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Trump Softens Tone on Inflation After Pledging to Lower Prices

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump promised voters that, if elected, he would enact policies that would bring prices down on “Day 1” in office. But three weeks into his term, Mr. Trump and White House officials have become more measured in how they discuss their efforts…

Steel and Aluminum Tariffs May Raise US Manufacturing Costs
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Steel and Aluminum Tariffs May Raise US Manufacturing Costs

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines America has seen this movie before: President Trump, who imposed stiff tariffs on Monday on imported steel and aluminum, did so once before, in 2018. So domestic industries have a pretty good idea of how the story ends. Manufacturers of trucks, appliances and…

Three Years After Ukraine Invasion, Europe Still Deals With Energy Crisis
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Three Years After Ukraine Invasion, Europe Still Deals With Energy Crisis

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a newly built dock along Germany’s Elbe River, tankers from the United States unload liquefied natural gas to fuel factories and homes. In central Spain, a forest of wind turbines planted atop mountains helps power the energy grid. In French government buildings,…

From Groceries to Cars, Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers
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From Groceries to Cars, Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s tariffs target countries that are major suppliers of a wide range of goods to the United States. For American families, the likely result is higher prices nearly everywhere they turn — in grocery aisles, car dealerships, electronics stores and at the…

Typhoon Yagi Scrambles Vietnam’s Lunar New Year Tradition
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Typhoon Yagi Scrambles Vietnam’s Lunar New Year Tradition

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In Hanoi and other Vietnamese cities at this time of year, potted kumquat trees fastened to motorbike seats dodge and weave through traffic in a haze of orange. Families buy them as symbols of luck and good fortune for the new Lunar New…

In China, Rare Dissent Over a Program to Save on Drug Costs
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In China, Rare Dissent Over a Program to Save on Drug Costs

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A rare display of public anger is unfolding in China over the quality of domestically produced drugs. A prominent Shanghai surgeon pointed to anesthetics that do not put patients to sleep. A respected Beijing cardiologist questioned blood pressure medication that failed to regulate….

Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level Since 2008
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Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level Since 2008

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a number of ways, Japan’s economy seems to have gone back in time. Inflation and wage growth are mostly back where they were in the early 1990s, just before the spiral of price deflation and economic stagnation that became known as “the…

Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs
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Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines That would slow the growth of the government’s spending on obesity drugs even as more people on Medicare started using them. New prices for the 10 drugs in the first round of price negotiations were announced last summer. Those prices will go into…