Major Outage at Amazon Disrupts Businesses Across the US December 9, 2021 By Frank Bajak and Barbara Ortutay A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for...
Alcohol and Auto Parts: Canada’s Warehouses Fill Up as Floods Stop Flow of Goods November 23, 2021 By Julie Gordon, Rod Nickel and Nichola Saminather OTTAWA — Canada’s warehouses are filling up with everything from furniture to alcohol, after floods in British Columbia washed out...
Floods Top of Mind as Canadian PM Trudeau Outlines Priorities to Parliament November 23, 2021 By Steve Scherer OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will add rebuilding from British Columbia’s devastating floods to his list of priorities...
“Flashing Red”: Finance System Grows More Dangerous – Allianz CEO November 19, 2021 By Tom Sims and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT — Allianz Chief Executive Officer Oliver Baete said on Thursday that the financial world was getting more dangerous, not...
‘Desperate For Tires.’ Components Shortage Roils US Harvest October 12, 2021 By P.J. Huffstutter and Mark Weinraub CHICAGO — Dale Hadden cannot find any spare tires for his combine harvester. So the Illinois farmer told his harvest...
Global Supply Disruptions Could Still Get Worse, Central Bankers Warn September 30, 2021 By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT –Supply constraints thwarting global economic growth could still get worse, keeping inflation elevated longer, even if the current spike...
Shipping Snags Prompt US Firms to Mull Retreat From China August 6, 2021 By Paul Wiseman WASHINGTON — Game maker Eric Poses last year created The Worst-Case Scenario Card Game, making a wry reference to the...
Global Supply Chains Buckle as Virus Variant and Disasters Strike July 28, 2021 By Jonathan Saul, Muyu Xu and Yilei Sun LONDON/BEIJING — A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting key South...
How Pandemic Effects on Supplies, Shipping Compound Wildfire States’ Insurance Woes July 15, 2021 By Don Jergler A perfect storm appears to brewing for homeowners and property insurers in the drought-plagued, wildfire-riddled U.S. West – and as...
Stung By Pandemic and JBS Cyberattack, U.S. Ranchers Build New Beef Plants June 17, 2021 By Tom Polansek U.S. cattle ranchers and investors are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into new beef plants after temporary closures of...