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Atlantic City Casino Workers Win One-Year Deals as New York Looms Over Labor Talks

New Delhi, June 10 -- The woman who cleans your hotel room at the Hard Rock does not yet know what her contract will say in twelve months. That uncertainty, shared by roughly 10,000 casino workers acr... Read More


Botswana Built Its Fortune on Diamonds. Now the Mines Are Cutting Workers Loose.

GABORONE, June 10 -- Motshwegwa Rakhudu spent fourteen years installing equipment in the diamond mines that made his country rich, on the kind of rolling contract that everyone treated as permanent. H... Read More


SoftBank's OpenAI Loan Collapse and Iran Strikes Send Asia Markets Into a Four-Front Retreat

TOKYO, June 10 -- SoftBank Group Corp. was supposed to be proof that betting everything on artificial intelligence was a strategy, not a gamble. On Wednesday, the market decided to argue. Shares of t... Read More


Indonesia Seizes Control of Its Commodity Exports as Buyers Scramble

JAKARTA, June 10 -- The next electric-car battery, bag of cooking oil or tonne of power-station coal may now pass through a single office in Jakarta before it reaches the world. Indonesia has begun fo... Read More


Rivian Stakes Its Future on the R2 as Cheaper Chinese EVs Circle

NORMAL, June 10 -- Rivian began delivering its R2 sport utility vehicle on Tuesday, the make-or-break model the loss-making startup is counting on to reach the scale that finally turns an electric-car... Read More


China's Exports Surge 19% as Trump's Tariff War Backfires

BEIJING, June 10 -- The trade war was supposed to wall China off from its biggest customer. Instead, China just sold more to the United States than at any point in five years. The country's exports su... Read More


South Africa's Economy Turns a Corner as Fitch Ends 21-Year Wait

JOHANNESBURG, June 10 -- For the first time in more than two decades, the news out of South Africa's economy is the kind its government has waited a generation to deliver. Africa's most industrialised... Read More


China Finally Got Inflation, and It Is the Kind Nobody Wanted

New Delhi, June 10 -- For two years China's problem was that prices would not rise. The problem that arrived on Wednesday is that the wrong ones now do. Factory-gate prices jumped 3.9 percent in May f... Read More


Social Security Retirement Fund Will Run Dry in 2032, a Year Earlier

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The fund that keeps tens of millions of older Americans out of poverty is now set to run empty a year sooner than the government said only twelve months ago. In their annual repo... Read More


US Must Refund $175 Billion in Trump Tariffs, and His Team Is Fighting It

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Having lost at the Supreme Court, the administration that built its economic program on tariffs now has to hand back much of the money it collected under them, and it is fighting... Read More