Articles by Erin Slifka

Prices of beef, typically among the costliest grocery store purchases, are falling after more than a year of increases, as consumer demand softens for some cuts.

The home-health-services provider is for sale in an auction that could value the company at more than $8 billion.

Unusually dry weather across the Northern Hemisphere is further snarling supply chains and driving up the prices of food and energy, adding pressure to a global trade system already under stress.

The green light to buy up to 50% of the oil company enables Berkshire Hathaway to avoid bumping up against a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-imposed limit.

The U.S. and Europe are relying on Chinese factories as much as ever, despite concerns about national security and fragile supply chains.

The Surface Transportation Board is considering aggressive new rule making to force railroads to share tracks and improve competition for their customers.

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said he is considering support for another large rate rise at the central bank’s policy meeting next month and added he isn’t ready to say the economy has seen the worst of the inflation surge.

The market rebound reflects a belief that inflation has peaked and rates will go down sometime next year, an outlook Fed officials have tried to dismiss.

A Georgia jury reached a verdict in a case involving a 2014 rollover of a Ford F-250 pickup truck that left two people dead. The auto maker says the decision isn’t supported by the evidence.