The protests began late last month with shopkeepers and bazaar merchants demonstrating against accelerating inflation and the collapse of the rial, which lost about half its value against the dollar last year.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
The unrest began a few weeks ago, with merchants and shopkeepers protesting the sharply falling value of the local currency, the rial.
That likely will see merchants pass on price hikes in the coming days for goods directly on to consumers, whose life savings already have dwindled over years of international sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic.
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Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
The payments were announced amid widespread protests that included merchants, traders and university students, according to the Times.
As a result, the lawsuit claims, consumers who purchased Pepsi products from retailers other than Walmart paid higher-than-competitive prices for years.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
Online retailers with lower overhead typically offer better pricing than brick-and-mortar stores, though the latter provide immediate possession and face-to-face transactions that some buyers value.
With a lineup of 15 vendors, it will be hosted by celebrity chef-author Clarice Lam (Kaya in Orlando) and chefs Diego Ng (Temple Street Eatery) and Alex Kuk (Wan’s).
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Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
Three primary memory vendors — Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and their businesses are benefitting from the surge in demand.
The cost of living has significantly increased, and one reason for that is the plummeting value of the country’s currency, which has led to an inability of merchants and traders to import goods from abroad.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2026
Cryptocurrencies have gained a lot of traction recently, and part of what’s driving that is the fact that large-scale asset managers including BlackRock have expanded options for traders to invest in them, using equity-like formats, including ETFs.
A day after booking Soto and Baz, investigators arrested Gutierrez, who allegedly led the distribution of the cocaine to dealers and users, at his Oxnard home.
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Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
Peruse vintage treasures from dozens of dealers at Middleburg Antique Gallery.
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