Microsoft’s stock is on a run not seen in 26 years — erasing its year-to-date losses

President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union that will cancel hefty fines levied against U.S. tech giants and likely result in a “substantial” tariff on the 27-member bloc. Trump, in a lengthy Truth Social post, accused the EU of “‘ROBBING’ American Companies and, in turn,…

Commercial vessels remain anchored off Port Sultan Qaboos around Qaboos Port on June 21, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. Elke Scholiers | Getty Images News | Getty Images Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slumped since U.S. President Donald Trump’s blockade took effect last week, with shipowners increasingly avoiding one of the world’s most…

One way of examining how mental health has changed over time is to use information available in large national surveys. While these survey-based measures are valuable in principle, and have been widely employed in prior research, a number of challenges may limit their practical usefulness or require considerable care in their application. This study uses…

Tax avoidance through personal holding companies has long been viewed as a key challenge for progressive income taxation. We exploit twenty years of administrative micro-data linking firms to owners in Sweden and Norway to analyze how the use of personal holding companies varies across the income distribution and to quantify its implications in a quasi-experimental…

The boom in GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and other specialized medicines has created lucrative logistics opportunities in an industry that pays a premium for reliability, visibility, and regulatory know-how. The expertise needed to properly transport these temperature-sensitive therapies is just part of the reason why FedEx created a dedicated unit to handle what has become a…

The CEO of the newly public sandwich chain says the company needs to be more proactive about reaching younger customers.