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In its high-stakes trade talks with the United States, China has been trying to strike a balance in how it wields its market clout. It controls the world’s supply of rare earth metals and magnets. And it has withheld supplies of the materials, which are crucial ingredients in everything from cars to fighter jets, as … Read more

We are hearing that the trade talks with China may be bearing fruit — or at least aren’t at an impasse. We’ve heard positive spin before, so we will wait to hear whether both sides say the same thing before any sort of victory can be declared. We’re also watching key C.P.I. data on Wednesday. … Read more

Businesses across the United States have for months warned that they would raise prices on their customers in response to President Trump’s tariffs. The latest data show that it is happening only in a limited way so far, helping to keep a lid on inflation. The Consumer Price Index, released on Wednesday, rose 2.4 percent … Read more

The New York Times has appointed Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as co-chief restaurant critics, the first time that the news organization will have more than one, the company announced on Wednesday. The change is part of an effort to expand starred restaurant reviews across the country, instead of focusing them almost exclusively in New … Read more

Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense battle over generative A.I. The movie companies sued Midjourney, an A.I. image generator that has tens of millions of registered users. The 110-page lawsuit contends that Midjourney “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works to … Read more

The British government announced on Wednesday hundreds of billions of pounds in spending on defense, health care and investment in infrastructure and housing, as it laid out its economic priorities for the next few years. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a breakdown of the public finances in Parliament, detailing how much money … Read more

Richard Beattie, a mergers lawyer who helped pioneer private equity takeovers — work that was immortalized in the much-lauded book “Barbarians at the Gate” — and who served in Washington and New York City government, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. His daughter Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen said the cause was … Read more

Even as President Trump heaped additional tariffs on China, his barrage of trade levies on countries across Asia and unpredictability about what he might do next has encouraged some companies to hunker down in China, exactly the opposite of what he had hoped. Ga6789 Mr. Trump has steadily ratcheted up the pressure on China. As … Read more

Bob McManus, the trenchant editorial page editor of The New York Post and a columnist for other conservative publications who prided himself on his unambiguous common-sense commentary about public policy and other topics, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was complications of bile duct cancer, … Read more

In Lesotho, the small southern African nation that is among the countries hardest hit by President Trump’s new tariffs, business owners were meeting on Wednesday to strategize their response. For a country with an economy worth just $2.1 billion, few options are on the table. Mr. Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, owing … Read more