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We report on the business and economic implications of new research, emerging technologies, corporate decisions, and changes across major industries.

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Why “90% remaining” can make a premium product look like better value marketbusinessnews.com/why-9…
Why “90% remaining” can make a premium product look like better value

Why “90% remaining” can make a premium product look like better value

Describing a product as having “90% remaining” rather than “10% lost” can change how consumers judge the relationship between price and quality, even though the two figures are mathematically...

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Carbon reporting rules linked to 3% to 4% rise in new establishments marketbusinessnews.com/carbo…
Carbon reporting rules linked to 3% to 4% rise in new establishments

Carbon reporting rules linked to 3% to 4% rise in new establishments

US industries covered by mandatory greenhouse gas reporting recorded a 3% to 4% increase in new business establishments after emissions data became public, relative to industries outside the progra...

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UK inflation rises to 2.9% as higher energy bills hit households marketbusinessnews.com/uk-in…
UK inflation rises to 2.9% as higher energy bills hit households

UK inflation rises to 2.9% as higher energy bills hit households

UK inflation rose to 2.9% in July as higher gas and electricity prices increased household costs, ending three months of falling annual rates and keeping inflation above the Bank of England's 2%...

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Why successful companies can keep making the same bad decisions marketbusinessnews.com/why-s…
Why successful companies can keep making the same bad decisions

Why successful companies can keep making the same bad decisions

Successful companies can become highly efficient at the business they already know while steadily reducing their capacity to question it. Decades of management research suggest that repeated profits...

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Dell joins Lanarkshire AI park as £202 million public guarantee backs data-centre expansion marketbusinessnews.com/dell-…
Dell joins Lanarkshire AI park as £202 million public guarantee backs data-centre expansion

Dell joins Lanarkshire AI park as £202 million public guarantee backs data-centre expansion

A £202 million National Wealth Fund guarantee will cover 80% of a £252.5 million bank-lending tranche for DataVita’s Lanarkshire data-centre expansion. Dell Technologies is also moving its Scottish...

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UK economy grows 0.4% as services and business investment advance marketbusinessnews.com/uk-ec…

UK economy grows 0.4% as services and business investment advance

The UK economy grew by 0.4% in the second quarter of 2026, slowing from 0.6% in the first three months of the year but recording increases in services, construction, household spending and business...

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Nvidia takes on potential $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre marketbusinessnews.com/nvidi…
Nvidia takes on potential $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre

Nvidia takes on potential $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre

Nvidia has agreed to provide guarantees capped at a cumulative $105 billion for the first 4.25 gigawatts of computing capacity that OpenAI plans to lease at a new data centre campus in Ohio. The...

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UK goods exports fall 6.3% in June as goods deficit widens marketbusinessnews.com/uk-go…
UK goods exports fall 6.3% in June as goods deficit widens

UK goods exports fall 6.3% in June as goods deficit widens

UK goods exports fell by £2.2 billion to £33.0 billion in June, a 6.3% monthly decline, as sales to both EU and non-EU markets weakened.

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Study links biased evidence ratings to rising confidence in a simulated business decision marketbusinessnews.com/study…
Study links biased evidence ratings to rising confidence in a simulated business decision

Study links biased evidence ratings to rising confidence in a simulated business decision

In a hypothetical advertising decision involving 142 US MBA students, stronger shifts in ratings of four information items, pretested to be approximately neutral on average, were associated with...

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Shrinkflation study finds higher dollar sales despite lower product volume marketbusinessnews.com/shrin…
Shrinkflation study finds higher dollar sales despite lower product volume

Shrinkflation study finds higher dollar sales despite lower product volume

A sales-weighted comparison found that products permanently replaced by smaller equivalents recorded about 6% more nominal dollar sales at affected US stores in the following 52 weeks than in the...

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Cocoa study finds monitoring change cut estimated false reporting from 25% to 11% marketbusinessnews.com/cocoa…
Cocoa study finds monitoring change cut estimated false reporting from 25% to 11%

Cocoa study finds monitoring change cut estimated false reporting from 25% to 11%

Withholding farmers' initial counts of shade trees planted from seedlings cut the researchers' estimate of strategic or collusive amendments from about 25% to 11% in an experiment involving 407 cocoa...

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Moody's methodology change led affected companies to borrow more, study finds marketbusinessnews.com/moody…
Moody's methodology change led affected companies to borrow more, study finds

Moody's methodology change led affected companies to borrow more, study finds

Companies affected by a 2013 change in Moody's treatment of perpetual preferred stock increased their total debt by more than 22% relative to matched peers, according to research showing that...

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Customer data is moving deeper into pricing decisions marketbusinessnews.com/custo…
Customer data is moving deeper into pricing decisions

Customer data is moving deeper into pricing decisions

Businesses have long used personal information to decide product recommendations. Regulators are now examining a more consequential use: helping determine the price itself.

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New process could reduce the need to purify factory carbon dioxide before reuse marketbusinessnews.com/new-p…
New process could reduce the need to purify factory carbon dioxide before reuse

New process could reduce the need to purify factory carbon dioxide before reuse

Researchers have developed a laboratory process that turns carbon dioxide from a simulated factory exhaust stream into a useful industrial material without first separating the carbon dioxide into a...

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Expressive robots engage people more, but their mistakes carry a higher social cost marketbusinessnews.com/expre…
Expressive robots engage people more, but their mistakes carry a higher social cost

Expressive robots engage people more, but their mistakes carry a higher social cost

What makes people trust a robot? A new study published in Science Robotics suggests that the answer is more complicated than simply making robots appear friendlier or more human.

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Japan tests whether carbon pulled from seawater can fuel planes marketbusinessnews.com/japan…
Japan tests whether carbon pulled from seawater can fuel planes

Japan tests whether carbon pulled from seawater can fuel planes

A remote Japanese island could become a testing ground for a new kind of carbon economy, one that begins by extracting carbon dioxide from seawater and could eventually supply verified carbon-removal...

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Public R&D spending can boost the economy before the money is even spent, study finds marketbusinessnews.com/publi…

Public R&D spending can boost the economy before the money is even spent, study finds

Government R&D spending may begin lifting economic activity before the spending itself occurs, and before its full technological benefits emerge, according to a study published in The Economic...

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Customers who play a major role in creating or customizing a product may still speak positively about it after a disappointing result, according to new research. marketbusinessnews.com/custo…
Customers may praise products they helped create even when they fail

Customers may praise products they helped create even when they fail

Customers may praise products they helped create even after failure, creating a feedback blind spot for businesses, a new study suggests.

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The arrival of Uber and Lyft may have increased economic activity in US metropolitan areas without producing a clear rise in overall employment or worker earnings. marketbusinessnews.com/study…
Study links Uber and Lyft to higher local GDP, but overall job effects remain unclear

Study links Uber and Lyft to higher local GDP, but overall job effects remain unclear

The arrival of Uber and Lyft may have increased economic activity in US metropolitan areas without producing a clear rise in overall employment or worker earnings.

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Why some industrial parks create thousands of jobs while others create almost none marketbusinessnews.com/why-s…
Why some industrial parks create thousands of jobs while others create almost none

Why some industrial parks create thousands of jobs while others create almost none

Governments often present industrial parks as a straightforward way to attract factories, increase investment and create jobs. New research from Vietnam suggests that the results are far less...

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