Record Fuel Prices Threaten Higher Food and Freight Costs

Analysts are telling me that prices could rise even faster as we head into the fall

Diesel powers the trucks that move our food and everyday products, including groceries, clothes, and furniture

Copper prices are also hitting fresh records, with buyers scrambling for the metal amid concerns over mine supply and the prospect of potential U.S. tariffs

Canada's retaliatory tariffs are taking effect today, hitting 20 billion dollars in American goods

We don't want to make gains in the short term that then are taken away a few months later or a year later from that that's not fair to our workers or our companies our communities

President Trump threatened to ban the sale of aircraft from Canada's Bombardier unless they manufacture their planes in the United States

accident investigators are probing whether an Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami on Sunday, killing five people on the ground, may have approached the airport too fast and should have performed a routine go-around maneuver

The questions are on EMAS and whether that would have helped prevent this tragedy, and should EMAS be everywhere at every airport

Belgian authorities have arrested a Chinese citizen suspected of stealing advanced microchip technology and passing trade secrets to a Chinese company

Leading the pack is Aura which is filed to go public at an expected valuation of over $11 billion, and the smart ring maker listed a surprise underwriter, Robinhood Markets. French startup Mistral AI is also raising cash, securing a nearly three and a half billion dollar infusion from the likes of Samsung Electronics, pushing its valuation above 24 billion dollars

Jaguar Land Rover is planning to cut roughly nine percent of its workforce in response to U.S. tariffs and intensifying British competition

If the AfD manages to form a government and rule the state, it would be the first government led by a far-right party in Germany since the end of World War Two

It is a massive setback, and if you like, vote of no confidence for the government of Hirschmeier, which is probably one of the most unpopular there has been in this country

The firewall in Germany has worked in the sense that all of the parties to the left of the far right AfD have had an informal agreement not to govern with it. The CDU, in order to govern, has to make alliances with centre-left parties, and so it is never in a position to implement its conservative agenda, and that's been a massive source of frustration for voters