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Dec 10, 2018
What started in November as a grassroots movement against plans to hike gas taxes has spiraled into widespread anger about the rising cost of living and discontent with French President Emmanuel Macron. Weekly Saturday demonstrations have attracted more than 100,000 people and at times turned violent, tarnishing France's reputation with images of torched cars, tear gas and rioters defacing the Arc de Triomphe. Outrage has been fueled by criticism that Macron, the youngest French leader since Nap
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Dec 10, 2018
After inflation ran amok in the 1960s and 1970s, many central bankers fought for, and won, more freedom to control interest rates and set other monetary policy decisions without political interference. Their shields began to crack after the 2008 financial crisis. In the years since the bankers deployed trillions of dollars to save the global financial system, the public's faith in their work has been fading. Critics say independent central banks are too secretive and put commercial banks' intere
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Dec 10, 2018
When Facebook Inc. chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the U.S. Congress in April, lawmakers warned that the era of self-regulation for social media was likely over. When the CEO of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Sundar Pichai, testifies Dec. 11, he's likely to hear the same admonition. Despite a plethora of complaints about big-tech companies from lawmakers and the public, only in the area of protecting privacy does it appear that new nationwide rules may be forthcoming. That's lar
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Dec 10, 2018
Google revealed Monday that its soon-to-be shuttered social network suffered from another security lapse, a software bug that could have allowed third-party apps and developers to gain access to 52 million users' personal information without their permission.
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Dec 10, 2018
Daniel O'Day has tough decisions to make about how to deploy the company's resources.
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Dec 10, 2018
Paula Rosput Reynolds's arrival is a sign that Larry Culp is putting his stamp on the troubled conglomerate.
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Dec 10, 2018
The Reserve Bank of India has been in the sights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he took office in 2014. Modi and his nationalist government have regularly accused the bank of not doing enough to boost economic growth. With a general election approaching early next year, Modi forced the bank to study a plan that would allow some of its reserves to be used to bridge India's budget deficit. Some thought that the can -- the question of central bank independence in Asia's third largest economy
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Dec 10, 2018
The urgency is about deteriorating economic and market conditions, not competition.
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Dec 10, 2018
The oil giant's big bet on Permian renewables shows how the economics of the electricity market are changing.
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Dec 10, 2018
It's natural that Urjit Patel couldn't stomach the attack on the RBI's autonomy. But he should reveal what the government is telling it to do.
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Dec 10, 2018
The agency sued him this year for allegedly misleading investors, compelling him to pay a $20 million fine as part of a settlement and to step down as company chairman.
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Dec 10, 2018
Interserve's shareholders shouldn't expect to be left with much after the British outsourcing giant's restructuring.
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Dec 10, 2018
President Trump has signaled the two sides will have more than 90 days to hash out their differences. But his chief negotiator said the administration will resume raising tariffs if no deal is in place by March.
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Dec 10, 2018
In a new Bank of America survey, 71 percent of millennials said buying a home is important. Only retirement ranked higher.
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Dec 10, 2018
Nothing will satisfy all of the grievances of the gilets jaunes, but the French president has some tools available to help the "barely getting by."
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Dec 10, 2018
Retirees list the top regrets about retirement planning.
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Dec 10, 2018
The demise of Toys R Us has this major implication for the holiday shopping season.
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Dec 10, 2018
Here's why there's a lot of talk about Brexit and the Norway model.
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Dec 10, 2018
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | It's so important to review all the documents before you sign them at the closing. Mistakes can creep into the process.
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Dec 10, 2018
AFFORDABLE HOME OF THE WEEK | The unit has an open floor plan with a kitchen and breakfast bar open to the living and dining area, with a balcony off the living area.
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Dec 10, 2018
Despite complaints by big business, ISS and Glass Lewis aren't threats to capitalism.
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Dec 10, 2018
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's interview for "60 Minutes" touched on a wide range of topics, including his views on the Securities and Exchange Commission, worker conditions at his factories and the time he smoked marijuana on a live podcast.
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Dec 10, 2018
U.S. stocks were embattled by worries over a global slowdown, Britain's Brexit mess and ongoing tensions over the prospects for a U.S.-China trade deal.
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Dec 10, 2018
The world's biggest IPO since 2014 has lots to delight retail investors - and a few things to provoke nerves.
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Dec 10, 2018
Under CEO Hiroto Saikawa, Nissan's business performance was poor.
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Dec 10, 2018
The cost of food is a perennial risk for Indian governments - but this time it's rural, not urban, voters who are revolting.
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Dec 10, 2018
Rolling blackouts that began Nov. 29 have South Africans firing up candles, flashlights and generators. It's all because Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which provides most of the nation's electricity, can't meet demand. While the government says it's hopeful the crunch will ease by mid-December when many businesses shut down for year-end holidays, the energy crisis runs far deeper than a temporary shortfall. State-owned Eskom is mired in debt and isn't selling enough power to cover all its costs, leav
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Dec 09, 2018
Here's a vision of how things might look if Beijing decides to retaliate by leveraging its dominance of the supply chain for American companies.
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Dec 09, 2018
The loss of renowned physicist Zhang Shoucheng highlights tensions over Chinese venture capital investments in U.S. technology startups.
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Dec 09, 2018
Executives fixed prices and blocked competition in their "sandbox," authorities say.
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Dec 09, 2018
The White House economic adviser denied that President Trump was livid on learning that a Huawei executive was arrested in Canada on a U.S. extradition warrant.
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Dec 09, 2018
European Parliament elections have traditionally been dull affairs. This time is different. The continent-wide vote May 23-26 is shaping up to be something of a referendum on the whole 60-year Europea...
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Dec 08, 2018
The looming insolvency of the once-mighty commodities trader is a cautionary lesson to the city-state's exchange not to drop its standards.
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Dec 08, 2018
A contractor responsible for supplying deployed U.S. troops with food, water and basic supplies faces federal fraud charges. It is the second company in a row to be charged with fraud in relation to the same military program.
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Dec 08, 2018
U.K. and European Union negotiators have reached a Brexit withdrawal deal. But the saga is far from over.
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Dec 07, 2018
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver roiled financial markets and raised questions over the next steps in the trade battles between China and the United States.
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Dec 07, 2018
U.S.-China tensions aren't doing a lot of favors for Macau casinos dependent upon license renewals.
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Dec 07, 2018
Job growth was always going to slow down when unemployment got this low.
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Dec 07, 2018
Huawei Technologies Co.'s Chief Financial Officer Wanzhou Meng, arrested in Canada, has been charged in connection with alleged violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran by the Chinese company. It's not an isolated incident, but rather the latest chapter in a long history of tension between China's smartphone and telecommunications giant and the U.S. government and businesses.
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Dec 07, 2018
OPEC agrees to cut production, while a weak jobs report and worries about trade send investors fleeing stocks.
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Dec 07, 2018
Oil prices rise after OPEC agrees to cut production as a weak jobs report and trade worries plague stocks.
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Dec 07, 2018
Google said Friday an inadvertent bug had made its email filters go haywire, rerouting messages in a way that made users believe it had lost its sense of judgment over what messages deserved to land on top of the pile -- and at the worst possible time of the year, when retailers flood consumers with holiday shopping pitches.
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Dec 07, 2018
Instagram shuts down the accounts of medical cannabis dispensaries, sometimes in error.
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Dec 07, 2018
Its OPEC-plus production cut shows its economic need overpowers its fear of angry tweets.
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Dec 07, 2018
The biotech firm is burning cash like mad, and it will be years before it has a product on the market.
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Dec 07, 2018
While investigators are still trying to figure out what caused budget Indonesian carrier Lion Air's Flight 610 to crash in October, killing all 189 aboard, an initial focus has been on the plane's flight-control system. That could make what would otherwise be a straightforward process for dealing with claims from victims' families a much more litigious affair. The crash involved an Indonesian airline flying a domestic route with all but two people on board from Indonesia. But the 737 Max 8 plane
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Dec 07, 2018
OPEC agrees to cut production as a weak jobs report and trade worries plague stocks.
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Dec 07, 2018
The accord reached in Vienna would work to reverse the steep slide in oil prices that began in October
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Dec 07, 2018
OPEC agrees to cut production as a weak jobs report and trade worries plague stocks.
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Dec 07, 2018
A pre-Christmas fight looms over funding for Trump's border wall, threatening a partial government shutdown.
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Dec 07, 2018
The president's apparent missteps on military matters don't register with customers and employees of Nine Line, where T-shirt slogans echo his aggressive rhetoric.
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Dec 07, 2018
Health care, construction and transportation have seen a spike in hiring despite U.S.-China trade tensions, jittery markets and hurricanes.
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Dec 07, 2018
Hiring slowed somewhat as 2018 moved toward a close after a year of strong job creation. The unemployment rate remained at a near-half-century low.
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Dec 07, 2018
Health care, construction and transportation have seen a spike in hiring despite U.S.-China trade tensions, jittery markets and hurricanes.
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Dec 07, 2018
As a percentage change — which is how you should look at it — these moves are not as dramatic as before.
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Dec 07, 2018
As a percentage change — which is how you should look at this stuff — these moves aren't remotely as dramatic as before
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Dec 07, 2018
An accord reached in Vienna would work to reverse the steep slide in oil prices that began in October
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Dec 07, 2018
Big Tobacco finally made its move, and the company may be hooked on M&A.
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Dec 07, 2018
National security issues are exacerbating the U.S.-China trade war.
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Dec 07, 2018
"The time has come for people to have an opinion," he says.
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Dec 07, 2018
And the trade gap with China is at an all-time high.
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Dec 07, 2018
The dispute between William Barr and the government's antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, has taken on renewed significance.
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Dec 07, 2018
The dispute between William Barr and the government's antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, has taken on renewed significance.
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Dec 07, 2018
Bombardier has moved on from its 2015 crisis and its Global 7500 aircraft looks like a winner. But worries about cash flow are grounding its shares.
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Dec 07, 2018
Technology spending is eating into the industry's compensation pool.
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Dec 07, 2018
Job growth was always going to slow down when unemployment got this low. The challenge for the Federal Reserve is figuring out whether this means it needs to keep tapping on the brakes, or it can afford to just let our economy coast for a while.
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Dec 07, 2018
Retaliation over a Huawei executive's arrest could result in more punitive U.S. measures against the company.
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Dec 07, 2018
My co-workers are begging me to go to an office party. Do I risk looking antisocial, or should I bite the bullet and go?
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Dec 07, 2018
HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The owner was an authority on cancer research and surgery. The architect is best known for designing the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, Senegal.
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Dec 07, 2018
The entire D.C. region will benefit, but no area as much as Northern Virginia, a new study says.
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Dec 07, 2018
Trump's signature economic policies are at war with each other.
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Dec 07, 2018
Google blamed an inadvertent bug for causing its email filters to go haywire, rerouting messages in a way that made users think it had lost its judgment over what messages deserved to land on top of the pile.
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Dec 07, 2018
The Dow Jones industrial average and other indexes slid after the monthly jobs report seemed to cement worries that an economic slowdown is down the road.
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Dec 07, 2018
The senator from Ohio said GM's tax rate would be cut in half if it moved its Lordstown plant to Mexico. That's open to interpretation.
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Dec 07, 2018
Oil prices rise after OPEC agrees to cut production as a weak jobs report and trade worries plague stocks.
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Dec 07, 2018
The gilets jaunes are pushing for more wealth taxes too, an idea that's gaining plenty of traction with fed-up Americans and Brits.
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Dec 07, 2018
Carlos Ghosn, the deposed chairman of Nissan Motor Co., finds himself in the throes of a legal system renowned for having one of the world's highest criminal conviction rates. It's a system with a uniquely Japanese flavor: He can be held without charge for weeks or even months and can only get bail after being charged. He can also be arrested on new charges, allowing prosecutors more time to hold him for questioning.
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Dec 07, 2018
As the Earth grows hotter, young people facing decades of environmental disruption have turned to the courts for relief. A group of teenagers has sued the U.S. government because it hasn't done enough to protect future generations from climate change. The novel case has made it further than many legal observers thought possible and is getting close to trial. If the teens prevail, the government could be forced to create a plan to cut greenhouse gases more extensively than anything it's done befo
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Dec 06, 2018
Hikvision's involvement in domestic surveillance, deals with Iran and dependence on U.S. components make it a sitting duck.
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Dec 06, 2018
The woman, 45-year-old Victorina Morales, came to the United States from Guatemala, the New York Times reported.
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Dec 06, 2018
Artificial intelligence does not yet pose a serious threat to humans, according to the head of the Defense Advanced Research Agency. Though the military is rushing to improve its AI capabilities, DARPA Director Dr. Steven H. Walker said AI remains "a very fragile capability."
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Dec 06, 2018
Want to stop plateauing at a 1-to-1 KDR? We asked some of the game's top players to teach us some of their tricks for multiplayer and Blackout.
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Dec 06, 2018
The best recession predictor we have is going from flashing yellow to almost just being red.
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Dec 06, 2018
It's only going to become more difficult and expensive for viewers to find what they want.
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Dec 06, 2018
Apple's prices are out-pacing not only inflation, but also other gadget makers. Yet would switching be worth the cost?
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Dec 06, 2018
Despite being flush with Christmas decor the moment Halloween ends, most retailers only stock a few shelves of Hanukkah goods — a splash of blue-and-white inventory in a sea of red and green.
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Dec 06, 2018
He seems intent on going down with the retailer to the bitter end.
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Dec 06, 2018
After a week of raising expectations, it has now raised them even higher by failing to agree on cuts.
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Dec 06, 2018
A three-judge panel expressed skepticism that the government proved the merger would harm consumers.
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Dec 06, 2018
A three-judge panel expressed skepticism that the government proved AT&T's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner would harm consumers.
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Dec 06, 2018
The report found that many people use supervised drug consumption facilities intermittently, but do not adopt the safer practices when using outside of the centers.
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Dec 06, 2018
The stock market is careening and the trade deficit is the widest in 10 years as Americans buy more foreign goods but struggle to sell products abroad.
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Dec 06, 2018
The difference between the earnings yield on stocks and the yield on cash is a good bear-market indicator.
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Dec 06, 2018
Internal emails show Facebook's CEO is much different from the image he would like to portray.
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Dec 06, 2018
The 30-year fixed-rate average has fallen 19 basis points in three weeks to 4.75 percent.
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Dec 06, 2018
Experimenting with virtual reality and giving fans more control over the viewing experience are among the former commissioner's ideas.
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Dec 06, 2018
Many people are already scared of investing. Trump tweets are not helping to calm them down.
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Dec 06, 2018
The new CEO has the traditional retail challenges, plus a few more.
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Dec 06, 2018
Short-sellers have already had a field day with construction group Kier. A game of chicken over its rights offer is going to hurt somebody.
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Dec 06, 2018
Buyer assistance programs, low down-payment loans and new technology are here to help.
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