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Why the founder of $250 million vitamin and supplement brand Ritual is urging Congress to regulate her own industry
Ritual founder Katerina Schneider is asking Congress to regulate the supplement industry, despite HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s support for alternative ...

European markets hold steady as U.S. trade tensions and recession fears rattle global markets
London’s stock market dipped in morning deals Tuesday, while Paris and Frankfurt edged higher, helped by gains for infrastructure and ...

Exclusive: Former JPMorgan digital asset chief raises $3 million to transform real estate with blockchain technology
Arda hopes to create a platform that aggregates data about real estate transactions and property management. Read More

Europe’s airlines are plunging in value as Trump recession warnings threaten Americans’ ‘unbelievable’ spending power abroad
Shares in IAG and Air France-KLM fell as fears of a U.S. recession weigh on holiday spending hopes. Read More

The Fortune500 gains another female CEO next month as Gunjan Kedia takes on U.S. Bank: The risks in her inbox range from tariffs to wild fires
Gunjan Kedia will take on America’s fifth-largest bank from April 15. Read More

Layoff anxiety has pushed employee confidence to the worst rock bottom in nearly a decade
“Economic anxiety is rising as economic uncertainty is rising,” Glassdoor’s top economist says. Read More

How the ‘Musk premium’ influences Tesla’s worth
A Fortune analysis examines the company’s bedrock value. Read More

Trump warns arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia University will be ‘first of many’ deportations of ‘terrorist sympathizers’
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention drew outrage from civil rights groups and free speech advocates, who accused the administration of using its ...

Elon Musk admits he’s running Tesla with ‘great difficulty’ as shares tank 54% since December—but says EV maker will be ‘fine’ long term
Elon Musk reassured ruffled Tesla shareholders that the business would be “fine” in the long term as it suffers a ...

Former Meta director says Mark Zuckerberg worked ‘hand in glove’ with Beijing to build a censorship tool
A former Meta director has accused the company of going to extreme lengths to gain access to the Chinese market. ...

YouTube’s biggest star MrBeast makes more money from chocolate than videos
To fund its businesses, Beast Industries has raised more than $450 million over the past four years, according to people familiar ...

Tesla loses $127 billion in one-day market bloodbath as China car group questions Musk’s pursuit of ‘personal glory’
Tesla shares dropped over 15% on Monday. Chinese EV shares, like BYD and Li Auto, rose in Hong Kong trading. ...

Volkswagen hit hard by the shift to EVs, as profits plunge 30% and Chinese competition continues
At 12.4 billion euros ($13.4 billion) in 2024, net profit fell 30.6 percent compared with the previous year, even as ...

Record earnings at Lego as CEO says Trump’s tariffs are ‘not what keeps me awake at night’
Lego’s success stands out in an otherwise sluggish toy market, as sales increased by 12%, the company said, while the ...

‘Cheap goods’ aren’t part of the American Dream, Trump’s treasury secretary says
In a recent speech, Scott Bessent threw more cold water on a Trump campaign promise to lower the cost of ...

Nissan, facing a $500 million loss, replaces CEO Makoto Uchida with ‘real car guy’ Ivan Espinosa
Last month, Nissan and Honda said they were scrapping merger talks that would have created the world’s third-biggest auto company. ...

National Guard helps run New York prisons as state fires 2,000 guards for refusing to return to work after ‘illegal’ 22-day strike
Multiple inmates have died since the walkouts began, though it was unclear if strike-related prison conditions played a role in ...

Exclusive: Cartesia, voice AI startup, raises $64 million Series A
Cartesia has raised a $64 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, Fortune has exclusively learned. Read More

Greenland voters head to the polls as Trump pushes plan to annex strategic island
This self-governing region of Denmark has been on a path toward independence since at least 2009. Now, Greenlanders are debating ...

US and Ukrainian delegations start talks to end war with Russia
Saudi Arabia meeting comes as both Kyiv and Moscow launched attacks on each other’s territory

UBS fined €75,000 for harassing two whistleblowers who exposed a tax-dodging scheme for French clients
UBS and its French subsidiary were also convicted of setting up a system of tax evasion between 2004 and 2012. ...

Crypto day-trader faithful find life under Trump is no paradise
Digital assets have been faring particularly poorly, in part due to disappointment that Trump’s industry policies are not living up ...

Fired NIH workers fear bleak job prospects in the private sector because their research is too specific to be retrofitted: ‘No VC is going to fund that’
Employees told Fortune finding a job would require them to apply for positions for which they were overqualified or not ...

Trump promises to buy a Tesla after electric-car maker’s shares tumble
US president’s late-night social media post follows company’s 15% share price drop

For the first time ever, more than half of couples pick a lab-grown diamond for engagement rings
Couples appear to care more about gemstone size and price than sustainability. Read More

Fears of U.S. contagion spur traders to find hedges across world
Growing conviction that U.S. stock market exceptionalism may be over triggered a rush into the relative safety of the yen, ...

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested after ICC charge of ‘crime against humanity of murder’
Speaking to thousands of overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong on Sunday, the former president decried the investigation yet said ...

Larry Ellison’s Oracle just reported $130 billion in future contracts—which doesn’t include even a single transaction from Stargate
CEO Safra Catz said the tech giant scored cloud agreements with OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Nvidia, and AMD. Read More

Skyrocketing CEO pay can lead to huge corporate culture problems and whistleblowing employees
“One person cannot make the company successful. It’s only through the employees, through the workforce that things get done.” Read ...

Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan
Bond group records windfall on lifeline for UK utility even before deal is finalised