Category: Business

Apple Rushes to Avoid Price Hikes as Tariffs Loom In the final days of March, Apple flew five cargo planes loaded with iPhones and other products from India and China to the United States, seeking to avoid a major price hike triggered by new tariffs. The shipments, arriving over a span of three days, ensured […]

Global Infrastructure and Private Markets: A New Era The future of global infrastructure, particularly ports, is set to shape the world’s economy in the coming decades, according to BlackRock Chairman Laurence Fink. In his annual letter to investors, Fink emphasized that assets like data centers, power grids, and ports will be critical drivers of economic […]

Last week, a federal judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss our Privacy Act lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). OPM is disclosing to DOGE agents the highly sensitive personal information of tens of millions of federal employees, retirees, and job applicants. This disclosure […]

António Guterres was responding to a journalist at the stakeout in UN Headquarters in New York, who asked him for reaction to the recent decision by United States President Donald Trump to impose a minimum ten per cent tariff on nearly every country in the world. Tariffs are a tax on imports coming into a […]

The “liberation day” tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump have one thing in common – they are being applied to goods only. Trade in services between the US and its partners is not affected. This is the perfect example of Trump’s peculiar focus on trade in goods and, by extension, his nostalgic but outdated […]

The global financial landscape faced significant turmoil as the repercussions of Donald Trump’s tariffs unfolded, wiping out a staggering $9.5 trillion from financial markets over three trading sessions. Key points from the market meltdown include: The Athens Stock Exchange mirrored the global downturn, signaling a technical correction with a decline exceeding 10% from its annual […]

As a legal organization that has fought in court to defend the rights of technology users for almost 35 years, including numerous legal challenges to federal government overreach, Electronic Frontier Foundation unequivocally supports Perkins Coie’s challenge to the Trump administration’s shocking, vindictive, and unconstitutional Executive Order. In punishing the law firm for its zealous advocacy […]

As the clock ticks down to the U.S. government’s April 5 deadline to potentially ban TikTok, Amazon has made a late-stage attempt to acquire the platform. According to a report by The Information, President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing for a new entity called “TikTok America,” with a structure that would see U.S. companies owning […]

Across the UK, Mother’s Day represented a vital revenue opportunity for the hospitality sector. Bars, restaurants, cafés and pubs would have anticipated a boost courtesy of family groups – and some spring-like weather. Sadly though, due to some harsh financial realities including higher tax and wage bills coming into force now, many of these establishments […]

The United States is today designating a Lebanon-based sanctions evasion network that supports Hizballah’s finance team, which oversees commercial projects and oil smuggling networks that generate revenue for Hizballah. Such evasion networks bolster Iran and Hizballah, undermining Lebanon.  As part of today’s action, the United States is designating five individuals and three associated companies, including […]