Shortages push ‘cost of doing business’ higher than ever for summer attractions — and families will pay the price After two years of canceled or pared down events, the summer of 2022 looke...
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Shoppers Are Facing Shortages of Beer to Popcorn This Summer
(Bloomberg) — A shortage of popular food items from popcorn to sriracha is hitting restaurants and grocery shelves this summer, a sign that the world’s immense supply chains are still under pres...
Oil Shock Devastates Poorer Nations as Shortages, Protests Mount
(Bloomberg) — Developing nations are suffering the biggest hit from this year’s oil shock. Many are dependent on imported fuel and are being crushed by a combination of high international prices...
Sony’s strategy stymied by shortages
This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox Sony is seeing a smart strategy — growing in gaming, smartphones and automo...
Shipping Stocks: Red-Hot Star Bulk, Diana Shipping Report Amid Shortages, China Curbs
Commodities ocean shippers Diana Shipping (DSX) and Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK) report first-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Both shipping stocks rose ahead of the results, and Diana Shipping was in a buy ...
EV battery costs set to spike as raw material shortages drags on
Attendees look at the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck at the Washington Auto Show in Washington on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The cost to ...
Zebra CEO says freight costs have moderated, component shortages still a headwind
Zebra Technologies chief executive Anders Gustafsson told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday that while the company has seen freight costs come down, shortages of components like semiconductor chips co...
Yum Brands’ Digital Sales Mix Exceeds 40%, While Pizza Hut U.S. Takes A Hit From Delivery Driver Shortages
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 06: A ‘Now Hiring’ sign is posted at a Pizza Hut on August 06, 2021 … [+] in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. economy added over 900,000 jobs ...
Supply-Chain Snags Create Shortages Of Life-Saving Medical Supplies In U.S.
An unprecedented strain on American healthcare systems is expected to worsen. Lori Lee spends a lot of time trying to keep Connecticut’s largest health system stocked with medical supplies from IV lin...
Russian official admits sanctions are crippling the economy as the country grapples with a selloff and mass shortages
The ruble may not be showing it, but Western economic sanctions imposed against Russia are working. In revealing testimony before the Duma parliament, the head of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) told...
Pandemic Demand Destruction No Match For Supply Shortages
TOPSHOT – A man wears a protective face mask on the promenade of the Bund along the Huangpu River in … [+] Shanghai. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty ...
Here Are New Shortages You Might See Soon
An aerial view of shipping containers stacked at Yangshan Deepwater Port, the world’s biggest … [+] automated container terminal, in Shanghai. The United States is dependent on a number of...
Russia war could further escalate auto prices and shortages
BMW has halted production at two German factories. Mercedes is slowing work at its assembly plants. Volkswagen, warning of production stoppages, is looking for alternative sources for parts. For more ...
BlackRock President Says ‘Entitled Generation’ Now Learning About Shortages
Eat This, Not That! The 20 Most Inspirational Adele Lyrics That Are Major Motivation What’s not to love about Adele? Also known as Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, a singer-songwriter, and mom, this sh...
How Bad Inflation Might Get, According To The Companies That Will Raise Prices
It’s still much more expensive to get stuff to the U.S. from Asia a year after shipping costs first shot up. By Amy Feldman and Lauren Debter Try as he might, Greg Hayes, CEO of office-furniture compa...
Freight Truck Shortages Are Changing The Face Of Logistics
Michelle Sodomka, a Senior Director at Open Sky Group Open Sky Group TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) – in its most recent call with financial analysts – reaffirmed that they expect to have...
Russian Nickel Compounds Pain For Carmakers Contending With Chip Shortages
Volkswagen ID.5 electric cars being built at the company’s Zwickau, Germany, plant Getty Images Carmakers have struggled to maintain production levels for over a year owing to a computer chip sh...
Commodities Soar as War Builds Anxiety Over Supply Shortages
(Bloomberg) — Commodities extended their massive rally as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to roil global markets and fuel fears of supply crunches. Most Read from Bloomberg Prices from cr...
The War On Small Business
Transportation is just one area of our supply chains where there aren’t enough workers. getty Everybody has a pet theory about why it’s so hard for manufacturers and supply chain companies to ge...
Why Rising Prices Haven’t Stopped Shortages
Shelves are empty at a supermarket. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Demand above supply is causing shortages, but Economics st...
Ford Sinks as Shortages and Commodity Costs Weigh on Profit
(Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co. shares tumbled the most in almost two years after the automaker missed estimates for quarterly earnings and cautioned it may get off to a slow start to the year due ...
Two Critical Supply Shortages That Could Eviscerate The Global Econopmy
This was supposed to be the year that things “got back to normal”, but here we are at the end of January and things have only gotten worse. As we move forward into February and beyond, there are two ...
If Washington Wants To Do Something Substantive About Shortages . . .
(Photo by Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Newsday via Getty Images The administration has pointed to supply chain problems as the cause of many of the nation’s economic ills. Most espec...
Kosovo Police Seize Hundreds of Bitcoin Mining Machines Amid Electricity Shortages
Police in Kosovo reported the seizure of more than 300 Bitcoin mining devices since the raids against miners began last week. On January 6, police said it confiscated 67 mining devices “suspected to b...
Kosovo police seize 300 crypto mining machines amid electricity shortages
The police in Kosovo have ramped up their efforts to crack down on crypto miners in the country, confiscating more than 300 mining machines on Jan. 8 alone. An announcement issued by the Kosovo police...
These 18 States Are Grappling With Critical Hospital Worker Shortages As Covid Hospitalizations Surge
Topline Amid a rise in the number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 amid the rapid spread of the omicron variant, the virus is sidelining a worrying number of frontline healthcare workers, with m...
Amid Electricity Shortages, Kosovo Government Places Ban On Crypto Mining
Kosovo has banned crypto mining on Tuesday in an effort to reduce electricity use as the country grapples with its worst energy crisis in a decade as a result of electricity disruptions. Kosovo Bans C...