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Sep 24, 2018
Boeing secured a Pentagon contract worth up to $2.4 billion to provide helicopters for protecting nuclear-missile bases. The aerospace giant is awaiting the outcome of a larger deal to build Air Force trainer jets.
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Sep 24, 2018
Silicon Valley tech giants can't be trusted to police themselves and should be subject to tougher regulation, including around their pattern of acquiring competitors to accumulate ever-larger stores of user data, according to a critical new report released Monday.
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Sep 24, 2018
Ben van Beurden said a consortium led by the energy giant will decide before year-end whether to proceed with a $30 billion, liquefied-natural-gas export terminal in western Canada.
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Sep 24, 2018
The drugmaker intends to slash the list price of its hepatitis C treatments as it responds to competitive pricing pressures and shifts in the U.S. payment system for pharmaceuticals.
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Sep 24, 2018
Weight Watchers International is taking on a new name as it refocuses its mission and product lineup. The New York-based company said Monday it is now called WW.
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Sep 24, 2018
Amarin more than tripled in value after the company said its drug derived from fish oil reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in certain high-risk patients.
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Sep 24, 2018
One of the owners of the only remaining nuclear-power plant being built in the U.S. voted Monday to continue construction despite escalating costs.
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Sep 24, 2018
The economic outlook among chief executives of America's largest companies cooled slightly in the third quarter, as confrontational U.S. trade policies weighed on planning for capital spending and hiring.
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Sep 24, 2018
Sirius XM agreed to buy Pandora Media in a deal valued at about $3.5 billion, including debt, as the two sides face increasing competition from Spotify and Apple Music.
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Sep 24, 2018
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a must-pass piece of legislation that includes a provision that would dramatically bolster American funding of global infrastructure projects, a bid to counter Chinese influence.
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Sep 24, 2018
Apple and Salesforce.com said they have formed a partnership intended on improving apps for businesses.
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Sep 24, 2018
Shares of Comcast fell after the cable company won a bid over the weekend to gain control of European pay-TV giant Sky.
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Sep 24, 2018
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a must-pass piece of legislation that includes a provision that would dramatically bolster American funding of global infrastructure and development projects.
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Sep 24, 2018
Chipotle is launching a big ad campaign promoting its commitment to non-processed food as it looks to rehabilitate its image and become a lifestyle brand
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Sep 24, 2018
Michael Kors is close to a deal to buy Italian fashion house Gianni Versace for around $2.35 billion, in a move that would put one of the glitziest names in high fashion in the hands of a budding U.S. conglomerate better known for affordable luxury.
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Sep 24, 2018
Edward Lampert, who is also Sears's chairman, controlling shareholder and biggest creditor, wants creditors to restructure about $1.1 billion of debt coming due in 2019 and 2020.
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Sep 24, 2018
China's State Council accused the Trump administration of being a trade bully and abandoning important communication channels, as a new round of tariffs took effect.
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Sep 24, 2018
Michael Kors is close to a deal to buy Italian fashion house Versace for around $2.35 billion—a deal that would put one of the glitziest names in high fashion in the hands of a budding American conglomerate known for affordable luxury.
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Sep 24, 2018
Barrick Gold agreed to buy Randgold Resources for $6 billion in an all-share merger that will solidify Barrick as the world's largest gold company by production, with a dominant position in Africa.
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Sep 24, 2018
Subscription radio company Sirius XM is buying music-streaming firm Pandora in an all-stock deal the companies said they value at about $3.5 billion.
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Sep 24, 2018
American Airlines is forming a partnership with the fast-casual dining chain Zoës Kitchen to offer a revised onboard menu for economy-class passengers.
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Sep 24, 2018
French grocer Carrefour denied claims from rival Casino Guichard-Perrachon that it had approached its smaller competitor about a possible merger to create one of the world's largest retail giants.
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Sep 24, 2018
OPEC producers largely agree that oil prices above $80 a barrel would be too high. But there is widespread disagreement on how the cartel and its allies should contain crude prices once U.S. sanctions banning Iranian oil sales take effect in November.
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Sep 24, 2018
Barrick Gold agreed to buy Randgold Resources for $6 billion in an all-share merger that will solidify Barrick as the world's largest gold company by production, with a dominant position in Africa.
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Sep 24, 2018
Having secured control of European pay-TV giant Sky PLC, Comcast now must persuade investors that it didn't overpay and that the deal will accelerate its growth.
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Sep 24, 2018
Chipotle is launching a big ad campaign promoting its commitment to non-processed food as it looks to rehabilitate its image and become a lifestyle brand
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Sep 24, 2018
Russian wheat exports are booming despite a crushing price slump, as the country's farmers finally emerge from decades of neglect. They're positioned to extend their gains at the expense of American outfits, who are threatened by tariffs.
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Sep 24, 2018
Chinese imports exempted from the U.S.'s initial tariff hit-list show how China has become an outsize global producer of relatively obscure industrial commodities—on which American industry has become reliant.
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Sep 24, 2018
Barrick Gold agreed to buy Randgold Resources in an all-share merger that will create the world's largest gold company worth $18 billion with a dominant position in Africa.
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Sep 24, 2018
French retailer Casino Group said late Sunday its board had rejected entreaties from Carrefour about a possible combination.
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Sep 24, 2018
The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore fined ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber and imposed operating restrictions on the former after ruling that a merger earlier this year was anticompetitive.
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Sep 23, 2018
OPEC producers largely agree that oil prices above $80 a barrel would be too high. But there is widespread disagreement on how the cartel and its allies should contain crude prices once U.S. sanctions banning Iranian oil sales take effect in November.
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Sep 23, 2018
That number has long been the Holy Grail for central banks. The big debate now: What's a better target?
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Sep 23, 2018
The humming economy is bringing more labor strife. In recent weeks, unionized hotel housekeepers in Chicago, distillery workers in Kentucky and crane operators in Seattle have all walked off the job to pressure employers for better pay and benefits.
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Sep 23, 2018
Russian wheat exports are booming despite a crushing price slump, as the country's farmers finally emerge from decades of neglect. They're positioned to extend their gains at the expense of American outfits, who are threatened by tariffs.
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Sep 23, 2018
In the week ahead, the Federal Reserve releases its policy statement, while the U.S. Commerce Department releases gross-domestic product revisions, personal-income and durable-goods data.
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Sep 23, 2018
WPP's Chief Executive Mark Read is preparing to consolidate some of the advertising giant's major properties, as traditional agencies struggle to keep pace with the industry's digital shift.
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Sep 23, 2018
Digital publisher Vox Media is expected to miss its revenue goal for this year by more than 15%, adding to the list of new-media companies struggling to live up to lofty growth expectations.
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Sep 23, 2018
Having secured control of European pay-TV giant Sky PLC, Comcast now must persuade investors that it didn't overpay and that the deal will accelerate its growth.
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Sep 23, 2018
Dell Technologies Inc. is exploring the possibility of launching a traditional IPO instead of going public through a proposed acquisition that has met resistance from several investors.
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Sep 23, 2018
Rising new-car prices are pushing more buyers to the used-car lot, where they are finding a growing selection of low-mileage vehicles that are only a few years old.
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Sep 23, 2018
Entrepreneurs and investors are rushing headlong into the nascent legal marijuana industry, fueling a stock craze reminiscent of the late 1990s dot-com bubble and the recent bitcoin mania.
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Sep 23, 2018
Companies' record stock repurchases this year are causing profits to appear stronger and fueling the stock market's record run.
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Sep 23, 2018
German luxury car maker Porsche will no longer offer diesel versions of its cars, the Volkswagen unit said, becoming the first German auto maker to drop the engines in the wake of the emissions-cheating scandal.
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Sep 23, 2018
New web browsers present the perfect reason to test what a modern browser can do and even consider making a change.
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Sep 22, 2018
The past year has been good for the U.S. box office, in part thanks to MoviePass. But the future of MoviePass's parent is in question and new limits on the number of films subscribers can see could make it less of a force.
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Sep 22, 2018
Comcast topped 21st Century Fox in a weekend auction for Sky, winning the British broadcaster with a $38.8 billion bid that ends a monthslong takeover battle and promises Comcast a greatly expanded international footprint.
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Sep 22, 2018
Walt Disney didn't win Sky as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets, but the end to the unusual bidding war leaves rival Comcast paying a sum that will benefit Disney as a minority owner of the British pay-TV operator.
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Sep 22, 2018
President Trump's pique over the Federal Reserve's interest-rate increases this summer stoked fears about a looming blowup between the White House and the central bank. But his nominees to the Fed's board show his administration isn't spoiling for a fight.
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Sep 22, 2018
Congressional lawmakers have left a proposal to regulate airline "change fees" out of a bill authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration's operations.
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Sep 22, 2018
PayPal Holdings is replacing the executive in charge of its popular Venmo service for the second time in two years, putting its leadership in flux at a time when the company is looking to transform it into a moneymaker.
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Sep 22, 2018
Apple wants to make scripted shows for streaming. But it doesn't want to risk its pristine brand image by including violence, politics, raw language and risqué story lines common to cable, Netflix and Amazon.
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Sep 22, 2018
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned employees in a memo against letting their personal politics affect their work as the company fends off criticism that its widely used products could be biased.
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Sep 21, 2018
The online grocer says it's still addressing stockouts and botched deliveries since its move into a new New York distribution center.
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Sep 21, 2018
A Neiman Marcus bondholder said the luxury retailer is in default on its debt after transferring online business MyTheresa to its parent company, further from the reach of creditors.
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Sep 21, 2018
Seven years ago, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's paintings were selling for $3,000. Now they go for millions. Her next challenge is to avoid the quick rise and fall other young artists have suffered in a contemporary art market that churns through its favorites.
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Sep 21, 2018
Airbnb has asked the SEC to change rules to potentially allow the home-sharing platform to offer hosts a stake in the company.
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Sep 21, 2018
Federal prosecutors are probing whether big drugmakers including Sanofi, Gilead Sciences and Biogen potentially violated laws by providing free services to doctors and patients.
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Sep 21, 2018
Seven years ago, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's paintings were selling for $3,000. Now they go for millions. Her next challenge is to avoid the quick rise and fall other young artists have suffered in a contemporary art market that churns through its favorites.
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Sep 21, 2018
Seven years ago, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's paintings were selling for $3,000. Now they go for millions. Her next challenge is to avoid the quick rise and fall other young artists have suffered in a contemporary art market that churns through its favorites.
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Sep 21, 2018
Seven years ago, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's paintings were selling for $3,000. Now they go for $3 million. Her next challenge is to avoid the quick rise and fall other young artists have suffered in a contemporary art market that churns through its favorites.
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Sep 21, 2018
The taste for tiny electric vehicles has become a quirky subplot in China's clean-energy ambitions, with sales more than twice that of regular electric cars.
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Sep 21, 2018
The company's scale worries critics, but antitrust law punishes conduct, not size.
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Sep 21, 2018
Elton John re-signed a deal to stay with the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, in a sign there is still a place for music labels in the streaming age.
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Sep 21, 2018
Delta Air Lines is looking for a partner to share the burden of its six-year experiment in running a jet-fuel refinery.
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Sep 21, 2018
Two of the newest iPhones hit stores Friday, with scenes of customers around the world lining up outside Apple stores. Customer turnout will go a long way toward determining Apple's results over the next year.
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Sep 21, 2018
The same type of blind auction used to pick players in fantasy football leagues could decide the fate of Sky, a media company that employs 30,000 people and has a stock-market value of $36 billion.
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Sep 21, 2018
In the standoff between American catfish and a Vietnamese cousin, a new food inspection program has tangled everyone in red tape, showing how measures intended to help U.S. businesses can backfire.
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Sep 21, 2018
Turkey's economic crisis has heightened concerns in Egypt about whether the Arab world's largest country is positioned to withstand falling confidence in emerging markets world-wide.
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Sep 21, 2018
Federal prosecutors are probing whether big drugmakers including Sanofi, Gilead Sciences and Biogen potentially violated laws by providing free services to doctors and patients.
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Sep 21, 2018
The eurozone's economy continued its slow-motion slowdown in September, as exports suffered from a drop off in global demand and uncertainty about future trade relations between the U.S. and other countries.
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Sep 21, 2018
A shortage of high-end computer chips from Intel is being felt in other segments of the tech sector. The question is how far it might spread.
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Sep 20, 2018
Medtronic has reached a deal to acquire medical device maker Mazor Robotics, as the company looks to strengthen its technology for robotic-assisted spine surgeries.
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Sep 20, 2018
Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed how they could tweak the company's search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, according to internal company emails.
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Sep 20, 2018
MiMedx has determined that four former executives engaged in conduct detrimental to the business and should forfeit compensation in connection with their exits, now seen as "for cause" terminations.
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Sep 20, 2018
AT&T defended a court ruling that allowed it to buy Time Warner, arguing that both the law and current industry realities showed the acquisition wouldn't harm competition.
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Sep 20, 2018
Walt Disney Co. has decided to reanimate scenes showing its only black princess in the coming "Wreck-It Ralph" sequel after facing criticism that the company had lightened her skin tone and narrowed her nose.
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Sep 20, 2018
Adobe Systems agreed to acquire marketing-automation firm Marketo for $4.75 billion, its largest acquisition ever and the latest sign of its ambition to become a one-stop-shop for marketers.
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Sep 20, 2018
Amazon is offering makers of electronics a small chip that would let people use their voice to command everything from microwaves and coffee machines to room fans and guitar amplifiers.
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Sep 20, 2018
General Electric discovered a flaw in its newest power-plant turbines after a key part failed earlier this month, forcing utility Exelon to shut down two Texas plants while GE makes repairs.
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Sep 20, 2018
U.S. home sales stalled in August, highlighting a growing disconnect between the sluggish housing market and the strong economy that is powering stocks to new highs.
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Sep 20, 2018
The total net worth of U.S. households rose to nearly $107 trillion during the second quarter of 2018, as higher property and stock prices boosted Americans' wealth.
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Sep 20, 2018
Shares in the ticketing and event-services company jumped sharply in their market debut on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday.
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Sep 20, 2018
Google said it continues to allow other companies to scan and share data from Gmail accounts, responding to questions on Capitol Hill about privacy and potential misuse of information in users' emails.
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Sep 20, 2018
Sports TV giant ESPN, which has battled cable TV cord-cutting, is betting big on a $4.99-a-month streaming service that carries a range of programming but not the live ESPN channels.
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Sep 20, 2018
The Minneapolis Police Department has completed its initial investigation into a rape allegation against Chinese billionaire Liu Qiangdong, and prosecutors are now expected to decide whether to bring charges.
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Sep 20, 2018
Some of the world's biggest companies are drawing up plans for the unplannable: a March divorce between Britain and the European Union, in which even some basic parameters have yet to be hammered out.
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Sep 20, 2018
Sales of previously owned U.S. homes held steady in August after a stretch of weakness in the housing market.
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Sep 20, 2018
Georgia's Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, the sole remaining nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S., is facing mounting opposition from cities and lawmakers concerned about its rising costs.
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Sep 20, 2018
U.S. carriers are battling with Congress to keep control of the nearly $3 billion passengers pay annually to change their flights.
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Sep 20, 2018
Under Armour is cutting about 400 jobs globally as the company continues to slash costs to combat weak sales of its athletic apparel.
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Sep 20, 2018
Shale drilling, once the province of small, scrappy operators, faces challenges including pipeline bottlenecks and rising costs. Now oil giants are using their size to tackle those problems.
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Sep 20, 2018
Amazon.com has joined forces with a private-equity firm in India that is acquiring one of the largest retail chains in the South Asian nation.
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Sep 20, 2018
Activision Blizzard needs to keep latest iteration of its key franchise—"Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4"—on top, and its solid challenge to the combat-survival game "Fortnite" may help it succeed.
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Sep 20, 2018
Thor Industries shares slid 7% in premarket trading after reporting weaker sales and profits in the most recent quarter after it cut production and took other actions to balance dealer inventory levels
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Sep 20, 2018
The sole remaining nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S. is facing mounting opposition from cities and lawmakers concerned about its rising costs.
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Sep 20, 2018
The number of Americans filing applications for new unemployment benefits fell to a fresh 49-year low last week, though any effect from Hurricane Florence may not be realized for several weeks.
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Sep 20, 2018
The EU is ramping up pressure on Facebook to better spell out to consumers how their data is being used or face sanctions in several countries.
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Sep 20, 2018
British regulators said Comcast and Fox will settle their takeover battle for Sky via an auction starting Friday, a dramatic climax to a lengthy sale process involving some of the world's biggest media companies.
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Sep 20, 2018
OPEC and its Russia-led counterparts meet this weekend to gauge whether they need to boost output amid U.S. sanctions on Iran as international oil prices flirt with multiyear highs.
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