Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Elsewhere this morning, WH Smith has said it wants to raise about £100m as the conflict in the Middle East starts to affect its profit. The high street retailer says it will place up to 26 million shares, or about 20% of its existing sha...
UK pint prices are up 36% since the last World Cup. We look at why beer now costs so much more.
Price growth has been boosted by a surge in global commodity costs, as the Middle East conflict disrupted energy and raw material flows.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, told the BBC that inflation is pushing up its costs and did not rule out raising prices. CFO Wendell Huang said the company would not impose sudden “fourfold, fivefold” increases but acknowledged that costs have risen.
In a rare interview, a senior executive at TSMC discusses the AI boom, the geopolitics of chips and what it means for the price of electronics.
The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals nationwide that they are failing to comply with federal price transparency requirements by failing to disclose costs of medical services, arguing that it drives up health care costs higher than necessary.
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National average gas price stands at about $4. 16 per gallon as Americans grapple with price hikes sparked by the war Donald Trump has claimed US fuel prices are “not very high, relatively speaking” as his administration grapples with affordability concerns after the surge in costs sparked by his...
JM Smucker Co. said it planned to lower coffee prices next year as the cost comes down.