Laura Curtis

About 4,400 shipping executives, retailers and supply chain managers from 50 countries gathered in Long Beach, California, this week for TPM — now in its 25th year and hosted by S&P Global.

The dockworker union that brought half of US container trade to a halt last October has voted to ratify a new labor contract with their employers. A union chief called the deal the “gold standard” for ports globally.

Shipbuilding and maritime trade are emerging as new fronts in the US-China trade war, and unlike President Donald Trump’s call for blanket tariffs, his shipping crackdown seems to have support across the political spectrum in Washington.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Lorie Logan urged policymakers to remain cautious in the coming months, reiterating lower inflation wouldn’t necessarily prompt further interest-rate reductions.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Mary Daly said the US economy was in a good position, and the central bank didn’t need to react quickly to policies introduced by the Trump administration.

As the smoke clears from devastating Los Angeles wildfires, efforts to clean up the affected areas are being complicated by burnt-out electric and hybrid vehicles and home-battery storage systems.

A US dockworkers union reached a tentative deal on a new labor contract with a group of ocean carriers and terminal operators that, if ratified would avoid a shutdown of East and Gulf coast ports next week.

Donald Trump regularly lobs economic threats at major US trading partners. But he took aim Tuesday at one of the smaller ones, warning that he’d “tariff Denmark at a very high level” if the country with an economy the size of Missouri’s resists his offer to buy Greenland.

A US dockworkers’ union and their employer group will meet in New Jersey on Tuesday with just over a week to hammer out a deal on a new labor contract or risk halting roughly half of all the country’s container volumes.

Two Federal Reserve officials on Saturday emphasized the US central bank must finish off its fight against the post-pandemic price surge and reach its 2% inflation target.