Articles filed under Bloomberg
-
How big batteries could prevent summer power blackoutsJun 23, 2025 8:53 am - This summer will be an energy doozy in the U.S. as climate change exacerbates heat waves and a rash of new data centers and crypto mines come online. But these new power vacuums arrive in concert with a stack of big batteries.
-
Thousands of laid-off government workers are flooding a shrinking job marketJun 22, 2025 12:24 pm - Thousands of private government consultants laid off during the Trump administration’s cost-cutting crusade are increasingly flooding a shrinking labor market. Job postin...
-
At Home files bankruptcy, with lenders set to take overJun 18, 2025 4:29 pm - At Home Group Inc. filed bankruptcy to implement a restructuring deal which will see its lenders take over the business.
-
Experts say caller ID is destroying our understanding of jobs marketJun 14, 2025 1:36 pm - Getting households to pick up the phone is just one of many obstacles facing the world’s stats geeks, including government agencies tasked with collecting numbers on everything from joblessness to agricultural output.
-
Chicago’s dire finances hold it back in competition among citiesJun 09, 2025 1:48 pm - Chicago native Warren Baker started buying and converting apartment buildings into student housing in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 1985. His once-scrappy company ...
-
Chicago’s wealthy back new fund for U of C tech startupsJun 05, 2025 1:53 pm - A Silicon Valley venture capital firm has lured investment from billionaires including Don Wilson, Michael Polsky and Ashley Duchossois Joyce to fund University of Chicago technology startups.
-
US to deny air cover to European force in postwar Ukraine, sources sayJun 04, 2025 3:40 pm - The US is refusing to provide air defenses to back the “reassurance force” the UK and France are planning in a postwar Ukraine, people familiar with the matter said. Brit...
-
Chicago billionaire to pay for new $650 million soccer stadiumJun 03, 2025 4:11 pm - Billionaire Joe Mansueto is using his fortune to build a new stadium for his Chicago soccer team. The founder of Morningstar Inc. and owner of Chicago Fire FC said Tuesda...
-
Inside the test kitchens helping restaurants navigate the trade warJun 02, 2025 11:06 am - On a recent weekday morning in downtown Chicago, chefs inside a test kitchen prepared a five-course meal featuring tostada verde with jalapeño Gouda and trout on focaccia. The chefs usually cook these spreads to help customers of Sysco Corp. create or tweak menu items. These days, they’re also coaching eateries on substitutes for imported ingredients hit by tariffs.
-
Costco defies tariff shifts with higher profit, lower pricesMay 30, 2025 7:56 am - Costco Wholesale Corp. posted better-than-expected earnings in the third quarter, a sign that the nation’s largest club chain is flexing its scale and devoted following to navigate tariffs and economic turbulence.