Category: Business

Advanced chip making depends on a few firms, one lithography supplier and a handful of plants. That concentration made it a strategic issue.

Going public is a legal, accounting and marketing process that typically takes six months or more, and the first-day price says less than most people assume.

The Fed does not set mortgage rates or savings rates directly. It sets one overnight target and relies on transmission through the financial system.

The consumer price index is a weighted average of a fixed basket, and every design choice inside it, from housing costs to quality adjustment, is contested.