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Nov 16, 2019
Three months after being cut off from the internet, 8chan, the website associated with mass shootings, went back online this week—but only briefly as the site's operators duel with its creator.
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Nov 16, 2019
Harbin Bank, a politically linked midsize lender, said key private shareholders have been replaced by government investors, becoming the latest financial institution to get state backing this year.
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Nov 16, 2019
The real-estate market of Long Island City has done just fine in the year since Amazon nearly made the New York neighborhood a new home.
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Nov 15, 2019
The United Auto Workers union said it has secured a new labor deal at Ford, after unionized workers at the company's U.S. factories voted to back the agreement.
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Nov 15, 2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reported its first annual decline in tips from corporate whistleblowers as the agency prepares to finalize a proposal that could limit the size of big awards.
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Nov 15, 2019
Shareholders of Eldorado Resorts and Caesars Entertainment approved an $8.58 billion cash-and-stock merger that would create the largest casino operator in the U.S.
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Nov 15, 2019
Attorneys for Steve Wynn, former chief of Wynn Resorts, argued in a filing with the Nevada Gaming Commission that he can't be fined by state casino regulators because he is no longer in the casino industry.
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Nov 15, 2019
TikTok is testing a new feature that could give the popular video-sharing app an entry into e-commerce and a new way to make money beyond advertising to its growing U.S. audience.
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Nov 15, 2019
Taylor Swift and her former label traded barbs in an escalating dispute over the pop star's right to perform her old hits.
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Nov 15, 2019
Walt Disney-controlled Hulu said it is boosting the cost of Hulu Live TV—its service that offers live news and sports as well as on-demand content—to $54.99 a month.
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Nov 15, 2019
The Federal Reserve identified elevated asset prices and historically high debt owed by U.S. businesses as top vulnerabilities facing the U.S. financial system, according to the latest central bank financial-stability report.
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Nov 15, 2019
The Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal by Alphabet's Google challenging its loss to Oracle in a copyright case that could produce a multibillion-dollar verdict and have wide ramifications for the software industry.
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Nov 15, 2019
Bumble Bee Foods is preparing to file for bankruptcy within days over mounting legal expenses stemming from its involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices on canned tuna, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Nov 15, 2019
Twitter said it would no longer allow certain types of geographic or keyword targeting for advertisers promoting any type of cause.
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Nov 15, 2019
Veteran Mediterranean Shipping Co. Chairman Gianluigi Aponte will step down from the helm of the world's second-largest container operator and will be replaced by his son Diego Aponte, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Nov 15, 2019
J.C. Penney reported another quarter of falling sales but boosted part of its financial outlook for this fiscal year, sending its battered shares up.
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Nov 15, 2019
Uber has been hit with an almost $650 million bill in unpaid employment taxes and fines from New Jersey, marking another setback for firm as it struggles to prevent its drivers from being classified as employees.
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Nov 15, 2019
A mining-industry group published draft proposals for strict new standards to govern how companies build and operate the sort of mine-waste dam that collapsed in Brazil early this year.
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Nov 15, 2019
The New York Fed added $68.343 billion to financial markets in the form of a repurchase agreement operation.
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Nov 15, 2019
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's tax proposals would push federal rates on billionaires and some multimillionaires above 100% to finance social programs. Some say that could slow economic growth.
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Nov 15, 2019
Americans spent more on shopping in October, signaling consumer spending remains on solid footing.
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Nov 15, 2019
Pressed by businesses, interest groups and governments, the internet giant uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and an army of contractors to shape what you see.
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Nov 15, 2019
J.C. Penney boosted part of its financial outlook for this fiscal year and reported better-than-expected third-quarter results.
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Nov 15, 2019
Carriers are benefiting from a new rule that affects how they account for many of their airport leases, in part because it gives them extra room to rack up debt before risking a credit downgrade.
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Nov 15, 2019
Emirates Airline bet its future on giant planes and mega hubs, but the world's biggest international airline is now in the middle of the most significant rethink of that strategy in its history.
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Nov 15, 2019
Successful fast-food product launches lure customers from one chain to another rather than expand the pool. Viral hits like Popeyes chicken sandwich aside, recent industry skirmishes mostly amount to a stalemate.
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Nov 15, 2019
Ira Millstein has long argued that America's biggest companies have larger obligations to society. Now the rest of the business world is coming around to his view.
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Nov 15, 2019
The famed couples counselor is carving out a new niche as an executive coach. She insists her skills haven't changed. The workplace has.
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Nov 15, 2019
With federal rules covering digital political ads virtually absent, some states are making their own laws, while tech giants are drawing the lines for acceptable political speech on the fly.
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Nov 15, 2019
Famed therapist Esther Perel is carving out a new niche as an executive coach. She insists her skills haven't changed. The workplace has.
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Nov 15, 2019
Famed therapist Esther Perel is carving out a new niche as an executive coach. She insists her skills haven't changed. The workplace has.
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Nov 15, 2019
With federal rules covering digital political ads virtually absent, some states are making their own laws, while tech giants are drawing the lines for acceptable political speech on the fly.
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Nov 14, 2019
In a lengthy post on social media, the 29-year-old pop star Taylor Swift asked her fans to rally for her right to perform her older songs.
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Nov 14, 2019
Former executives at Under Armour, the sportswear company whose accounting is under federal investigation, said they scrambled to meet sales goals, borrowing business from future quarters to mask slowing demand in 2016 for its athletic apparel.
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Nov 14, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats are moving toward a deal with the Trump administration on a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, which could result in a victory for the president.
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Nov 14, 2019
Chief information officers, on the hook to automate manual and repetitive business processes, are increasingly turning to tools designed to create applications quickly, without the sweat of writing and debugging lines of code.
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Nov 14, 2019
The company has requested a hearing with Los Angeles officials after the city suspended its permit to rent out electric scooters over a data-sharing dispute.
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Nov 14, 2019
Nvidia Corp. signaled the prospects for sales from its gaming and cloud-computing operations were improving, even as it posted a fourth-straight quarter of lower earnings.
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Nov 14, 2019
St. Louis Fed leader James Bullard said he doesn't see any need to lower interest rates beyond the three cuts the U.S. central bank has made this year.
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Nov 14, 2019
As podcasts attract more advertisers, podcast publishers and ad sellers are beginning to embrace tactics that are common on the internet, including the automated buying and selling of targeted ads. But not everyone wants to follow the web-advertising playbook.
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Nov 14, 2019
Some 13.1 million people tuned in to watch the first day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry across the major cable and broadcast networks.
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Nov 14, 2019
After tumbling in the rankings last year, electric car maker Tesla rebounded slightly in Consumer Reports' latest reliability survey with the organization restoring its recommended rating to two models.
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Nov 14, 2019
After tumbling in the rankings last year, electric car maker Tesla rebounded slightly in Consumer Reports' latest reliability survey with the organization restoring its recommended rating to two models.
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Nov 14, 2019
Ted Sarandos said his company is prepared to weather competition from rivals because of its investments in original programming.
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Nov 14, 2019
John Williams of the New York Fed said that after three rate cuts, U.S. central-bank interest-rate policy is in the right place to deal with the current environment of uncertainty.
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Nov 14, 2019
The tech giant said its ad exchange would stop telling advertisers what categories of websites users are visiting, a concession to European data-protection authorities.
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Nov 14, 2019
Shares of Canopy Growth, Tilray and Cronos Group have declined this week.
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Nov 14, 2019
Walmart said sales rose in the most recent quarter, a sign that the retailer continues to take market share from competitors and benefit from strong consumer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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Nov 14, 2019
Walmart said sales rose in the most recent quarter, a sign that the retailer continues to take market share from competitors and benefit from strong consumer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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Nov 14, 2019
Walmart said sales rose in the most recent quarter, a sign that the retailer continues to take market share from competitors and benefit from strong consumer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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Nov 14, 2019
St. Louis Fed leader James Bullard said the U.S. economy is getting stimulus from central bank policy beyond what three rate cuts would indicate, even as he worried the economy could slow more than expected.
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Nov 14, 2019
The private-equity backed operator of the Houlihan's Restaurant Bar chain has filed for bankruptcy protection with a deal in-hand to sell the casual dining chain to fellow restaurant operator Landry's Inc. for $40 million and assumption of some liabilities.
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Nov 14, 2019
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Capitol Hill the central bank was optimistic its interest-rate cuts this year would buoy the U.S. economy against headwinds, including trade uncertainty and a global slowdown.
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Nov 14, 2019
Walmart said sales rose in the most recent quarter, a sign that the retailer continues to take market share from competitors and benefit from strong consumer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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Nov 14, 2019
China has agreed to lift a more than four-year-old ban on U.S. poultry imports, both governments said, in what a U.S. industry group said could lead to sales of $2 billion of poultry.
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Nov 14, 2019
Viacom's profit in the last quarter of its fiscal year fell as a combination of lower revenue and increased investment in new online streaming services weighed in on its bottom line.
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Nov 14, 2019
A top bank regulator is poised to propose changes to bank lending requirements that could potentially transform the way lenders make billions of dollars in loans, investments and donations to customers in lower-income areas.
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Nov 14, 2019
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said the U.S. economy may be testing the edge of full employment, in remarks that noted the central bank's toolkit for influencing the economy is in a good place.
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Nov 14, 2019
Walmart said sales rose in the most recent quarter, a sign that the retailer continues to take market share from competitors and benefit from strong consumer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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Nov 14, 2019
The Mercedes-Benz maker said it would cut more than 1,000 executive positions as part of a plan to reduce labor costs by $1.1 billion by 2022, but warned that this and efforts to meet stricter emission targets would dent profits for the next two years.
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Nov 14, 2019
A lower percentage of people out of work is relying on unemployment payments amid tighter state rules on obtaining the benefits and a strong job market.
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Nov 14, 2019
Profit at Viacom, whose portfolio includes TV Land, VH1 and MTV, fell 22% to $307 million in the last quarter as it consolidates some operations in preparation for its combination with CBS.
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Nov 14, 2019
The tech giant Cisco Systems is warning of further slowdowns even as its software and security businesses show promise
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Nov 14, 2019
As the Chinese video-sharing app encounters suspicion in Washington, regulators and users are unfazed in its largest international market: India.
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Nov 14, 2019
As the Chinese video-sharing app encounters suspicion in Washington, regulators and users are unfazed in its largest international market: India.
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Nov 14, 2019
Investors welcomed plans for a merger to create an internet-services giant in Japan controlled by SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, but Yahoo Japan and chat app Line face challenges combining their businesses.
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Nov 13, 2019
Activist investor Carl Icahn is pushing for the proposed merger of Xerox and HP. He revealed a stake in HP that could increase pressure for a tie-up.
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Nov 13, 2019
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker reiterated that he has opposed the central bank's rate cuts this year.
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Nov 13, 2019
Facebook reported gains in detecting hate speech, child-abuse imagery and terrorist propaganda on its platforms and said its willingness to publish statistics on the removal of objectionable content shows its commitment to transparency.
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Nov 13, 2019
The companies are competing for a piece of the workplace-collaboration market, but behind the scenes, they are doing some collaborating of their own.
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Nov 13, 2019
Office-space startup WeWork lost $1.25 billion in the third quarter as expenses far outpaced revenue growth, draining the company's cash ahead of a bailout by SoftBank last month.
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Nov 13, 2019
BHP named Mike Henry as its new chief executive, opting for his experience running the most profitable operation of the global miner after a tumultuous period of big swings in commodity prices and exiting legacy assets.
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Nov 13, 2019
American Outdoor Brands said its board has approved a plan to split into two companies, separating the outdoor products and accessories business from Smith & Wesson Brands, the firearms maker.
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Nov 13, 2019
Trade talks between the U.S. and China have hit a snag over farm purchases, creating another obstacle as Beijing and Washington try to lock down a limited trade deal.
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Nov 13, 2019
Cisco Systems projected its first quarterly revenue decline in more than two years, blaming what it called a pause in customer spending.
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Nov 13, 2019
Energizer Holdings reported higher-than-anticipated quarterly sales, pushing the battery manufacturer's shares up sharply.
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Nov 13, 2019
The U.S. budget gap grew 34% in the first month of the fiscal year as federal spending outpaced revenue growth, pushing the 12-month deficit past $1 trillion for the first time since February 2013.
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Nov 13, 2019
Newspaper publisher McClatchy said it has begun talks with creditors and federal authorities about a possible government takeover of its pension fund as it tries to relieve liquidity pressure due to its pension responsibilities and debt load.
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Nov 13, 2019
Trade talks between the U.S. and China have hit a snag over farm purchases, creating another obstacle as Beijing and Washington try to lock down the limited trade deal President Trump outlined last month.
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Nov 13, 2019
Energizer Holdings reported higher-than-anticipated quarterly sales, pushing the battery manufacturer's shares up sharply.
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Nov 13, 2019
Drug-resistant bacteria and fungi, along with heavy use of antibiotics, fuel nearly 3.1 million infections with 48,700 deaths every year in the U.S., the CDC warned, saying the toll from so-called superbugs is greater than previously known.
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Nov 13, 2019
Reaching 10 million subscribers about 24 hours after the formal launch of Disney appears to be a robust start, but it's unclear how much each of those customers is worth to Disney.
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Nov 13, 2019
Gasoline costs pushed up prices for U.S. consumer goods in October, while new tariffs on imports appeared to have little effect on what Americans paid for clothing and household furnishings.
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Nov 13, 2019
Abbott Laboratories said Miles White will step down in March as chief executive officer after 21 years at the helm of the maker of health-care products.
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Nov 13, 2019
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings' profit slid as slowing economic growth at home and rising competition ate away in crucial areas such as advertising.
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Nov 13, 2019
Two Japanese internet leaders—news and shopping site Yahoo Japan and chat app Line—are in talks to combine, potentially expanding SoftBank Group's presence in online ads and payment apps in Japan.
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Nov 13, 2019
Americans are borrowing more for cars, a sign lower interest rates and a decadelong economic expansion are supporting purchases of large household items.
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Nov 13, 2019
After a deadly dam collapse, Brazil's mining giant Vale SA showered money on survivors who spent like every day was their last. Now Vale plans to close the mine, a pillar of the local economy.
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Nov 13, 2019
The WSJ Airport Rankings expand to measure how the 40 largest airports in the country stack up.
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Nov 13, 2019
After a deadly dam collapse, Brazil's mining giant paid compensation to survivors who spent like every day was their last. Now Vale plans to close the mine, a pillar of the local economy.
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Nov 13, 2019
Alibaba applied for a secondary listing in Hong Kong, aiming to raise roughly $13 billion. The move gives the Asian financial hub a vote of confidence after monthslong demonstrations.
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Nov 13, 2019
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers that the central bank saw little need to cut interest rates further after making three reductions between July and October.
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Nov 13, 2019
U.S. consumer prices rose in October, with energy prices accounting for more than half of the gains in the headline index. Excluding the often volatile food and energy categories, prices were up 0.2%.
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Nov 13, 2019
Apple introduced a 16-inch MacBook Pro, marking a new screen size as well as a departure from the problematic "butterfly" keyboard that triggered customer complaints and drove the company to offer an extended repair program.
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Nov 13, 2019
Hong Kong's stock exchange has approved Alibaba's application for its secondary listing. The Chinese retailer plans to begin a roadshow for prospective investors for the $10 billion to $15 billion deal.
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Nov 13, 2019
Sweden, unlike most of the rest of the slow-growth world, has had enough of negative interest rates, and next month, its central bank is expected to unwind them.
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Nov 13, 2019
The new fund is more than 50% larger than the firm's first tech-focused vehicle, which closed with $1 billion in 2016. That fund has backed 10 companies, including a recently announced investment in SheerID Inc.
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Nov 13, 2019
Unilever has tapped the former head of Danish shipping company A.P. Moller Maersk as its new chairman, the second big change in the consumer giant's top ranks in the past year.
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Nov 13, 2019
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings' profit slid as slowing economic growth at home and rising competition ate away in crucial areas such as advertising.
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Nov 13, 2019
Google will soon offer checking accounts to consumers, becoming the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to push into finance.
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