Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer. The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks, who died on Aug. 5 at age 84, was a pioneer in all sorts of ways — the first foreign designer to show at Paris Fashion Week (in April 1974), among the first …
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Leaving as billionaires, they have emanated Silicon Valley’s relentless positivity. Pinterest “is just getting started,” Airbnb “is in the best hands it’s ever been in” and Instacart has a “enormous opportunity ahead,” the founders wrote. Both Mr. Mehta and Mr. Gebbia said they had plans for new projects. Investors say they anticipate more of these …
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LOS ANGELES — Bucking a streaming slowdown that has recently bedeviled Hollywood, Disney+ added 14.4 million subscribers in the most recent quarter, about 45 percent more than Wall Street had expected and lifting Disney’s portfolio of streaming services to 221 million subscribers worldwide, on a par with Netflix. Disney released the figures on Wednesday as …
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Inflation cooled notably in July as gas prices and airfares fell, a welcome reprieve for consumers and a positive development for economic policymakers in Washington — though not yet a conclusive sign that price increases have turned a corner. The Consumer Price Index climbed 8.5 percent in the year through July, a slower pace than …
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A combination of elevated demand, persistent shortages and delayed deliveries have helped push up the prices of goods.Credit…Gabby Jones for The New York Times Global supply chain pressures have been showing signs of easing, a trend that should translate into less pricing pressure on goods in the months to come. Compared with before the pandemic, …
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Lana Payne has been elected as the new national president of Unifor, taking over the role five months after long-time leader Jerry Dias abruptly retired as head of Canada’s largest private sector union. About 1,000 Unifor delegates, voting on behalf of locals across Canada, cast ballots at the union’s constitutional convention in Toronto Aug. 10 …
Consumer Price Index inflation cooled meaningfully in July as gas prices declined, which is good news for the Federal Reserve, though not yet enough for policymakers to conclude that America is through the worst of its burst of rapid price increases. While costs finally stopped increasing at an accelerating rate, they are still climbing at …
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Consumer Price Index inflation cooled meaningfully in July as gas prices declined, which is good news for the Federal Reserve, though not yet enough for policymakers to conclude that America is through the worst of its burst of rapid price increases. While costs finally stopped increasing at an accelerating rate, they are still climbing at …
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Signs that inflation eased in July offered a political reprieve for President Biden, who has spent months on the defensive as prices climbed to 40-year highs. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Mr. Biden declared that his “economic plan is working.” The president said that rising prices may have turned a corner. “We’re seeing …
Solera Auto Finance focuses on near-prime and subprime used-vehicle customers and offers what it calls competitive rates, though it retains its own brand name rather than offering a white-label option to dealerships. Retailers who use Solera for a dealership management system can earn rebates on their DMS bill by sending a “handful of loans” each …
