• Same-store sales at Starbucks drop as consumers slow purchases

    Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, various supply chain issues and high inflation, Starbucks could still count on its consumers to buy their iced oat milk lattes. But that economic certainty may be in doubt after the coffee giant reported weaker-than-expected revenue and earnings in the latest quarter.

  • ‘Traders must explain soaring prices of goods in probe’

    Traders and middlemen must give the proper responses to congressmen, once the House committee on trade and industry continues its inquiry on the soaring prices of basic goods despite plunging farmgate prices, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said last Monday.

  • Consumers Are Slow to Adopt Mobile Wallets for Store Payments

    Consumers are using mobile wallets more, but it is taking a while for them to grow accustomed to utilizing the technology to pay in stores, PYMNTS Intelligence reveals. By the Numbers The PYMNTS Intelligence report last year, “The Mobile Wallet Challenge: Replacing Physical With Digital,” created in collaboration with ACI Worldwide, drew from a census-balanced survey […]

  • Consumer price temperature check key to rates outlook

    Australia’s hotly anticipated quarterly consumer price index will land amid fears inflation progress is stalling in some advanced economies and threatening to delay interest rate cuts. Consecutive months of hotter-than-expected United States inflation data have pushed back the expected timing of rate cuts in the world’s biggest economy to later this year. Australian interest-rate markets […]

  • Yes, inflation has slowed, but business is still paying the price – and so are you

    Retail inflation has lessened, but businesses are still swamped by huge price increases in materials and servicesConsumer prices ticked up again in March, rising to anywhere from 3.2% to 3.8% year-over-year, depending on the rate you’re tracking. Of course, that’s way down from what it was back in 2022. But don’t tell that to any of my clients – or people running businesses in just about every industry across the country. For them, prices are not only rising but are significantly –...

  • London rents hit record highs – but price increases are slowing

    Average advertised rents in London are now 5.3 per cent higher than last year, but there are signs that the pace of price increases are slowing, a leading property portal has found.

  • Shop price inflation slows but political tensions 'pose a threat' to stability

    The rate at which shop prices rise has slowed to its lowest level in close to three years but geopolitical tensions and the knock-on impact on commodity prices, like oil, pose a threat to future price stability.

  • Inflation in UK shops slows amid price cuts on clothes and shoes

    Prices in non-food stores are lower in April than a year earlier as stores offload summer stockPrices in UK shops rose at their slowest rate since late 2021 in April as deep discounts by clothing and footwear retailers put the brakes on inflation, the latest snapshot of high street spending trends has shown.The monthly bulletin from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) – the lobby group for the industry – found that the battle by store owners to offload summer stock in cold and wet weather meant...

  • Dublin weather: Relief for Bank Holiday weekend as temperatures set to soar

    Conditions are predicted to improve in time for the Bank Holiday weekend next week

  • Royal Caribbean profits soar as travelers pay 'record ticket prices'

    Royal Caribbean saw stronger-than-usual demand as Americans take to the seas. More than half the cruise operator's earnings growth stemmed from price hikes. Its share price was near a record-high on Friday and up 17 percent this year

  • Tesla among electric carmakers forced to cut prices as market stalls

    EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporaryElon Musk became the world’s richest man by evangelising about electric cars – and delivering them by the million. Yet in recent months his company, Tesla, has struggled to maintain its momentum: sales have dropped this year, and so has its share price.Those struggles have become emblematic of a broader reckoning facing the electric vehicle (EV) industry. After the soaring demand and valuations of the...

  • Soaring gas prices hit $7.29 a gallon in parts of California

    Soaring gas prices have risen to $7.29 in parts of California. That price per gallon is higher than the federal minimum hourly wage. Other parts of the U.S. have also fallen victim to rising fuel costs