VGT's 0.09% fee is negligible; its five-year return of 148% trails XLK by nearly 20 points, making underperformance the real hidden cost. XLK returned 167% and FTEC returned 151% over five years, both ...

AWS CMO Julia White, left, and CEO Matt Garman at an event in April. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services revenue grew 37% last quarter, its fastest pace since the end of 2021, but ...

Fairtrade International has announced new minimum prices for coffee, raising the floor prices for Arabica and Robusta beans after a year-long review of production costs and market conditions. The new ...

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law Monday restricting landlords’ use of algorithms to set rents, as state officials seek to rein in rising housing costs. The law, called the FAIR Act, ...

Across the country, progressive politicians continue to push for an ever-higher minimum wage. Whether it's New York City's Mamdani-led pursuit of $30 by '30, L.A.'s $30 "Olympic wage" for hotel ...

Venezuela’s oil reserves are enormous, but much of the crude is so thick it barely moves. Engineers had to solve extreme transport, pipeline, and processing challenges to make one of the world’s most ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro applauded the passage of the state budget, which includes billions in K-12 education subsidies and increased funding for career and technical education. However, the budget agreement ...

The worst of America’s inflation resurgence may be over, but that doesn’t mean the inflation resurgence is over: Prices could keep rising uncomfortably for years. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor ...

Every consumer brand founder I get on a discovery call hands me the same diagnosis before I even ask for one: acquisition is broken. Costs are climbing, a channel that used to convert doesn’t anymore, ...

At VentureBeat's recent AI Impact event, where the discussion centered on what separates enterprises that scale agentic AI from those that stall in pilot mode, Brian Gracely, senior director of ...

Oncology remains one of the most challenging areas for payers since it is literally in the eye of a perfect storm of expensive medications, high-cost specialized therapies, changing reimbursement ...

There are three immutable aspects of economic life in California today. No. 1, Californians face the nation’s highest cost of living. It is 11% higher than the national average, according to the ...