Volkswagen in Advanced Talks Over Porsche IPO
BERLIN— Volkswagen AG and the heirs of Beetle designer Ferdinand Porsche, the company’s largest shareholder, said on Tuesday they are...
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NBC Draws Lowest Olympics Ratings Ever With Beijing Games
The Beijing Winter Olympic Games drew the smallest average U.S. prime-time audience ever recorded for the Olympics since NBCUniversal began...
Frackers Push Into Once-Dead Shale Patches as Oil Nears $100 a Barrel
Spurred by the highest oil prices in years, shale companies are moving drilling rigs back into oil fields that were...
Chicken Industry Officials Prepare for Retrial in Price-Fixing Case
Executives who worked for some of the biggest U.S. chicken producers are set to stand trial for a second time...
Tesla Planned to Open Its First European Gigafactory Last Summer. It’s Still Waiting.
BERLIN—When Rocco Pigola, a 59-year-old refinery worker from Bavaria who has owned six Tesla vehicles, heard about the electric-car maker’s...
WSJ News Exclusive | Carl Icahn Nominates Two to McDonald’s Board
Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight for two board seats at McDonald’s Corp. , as the activist investor pushes...
Burning Electric-Vehicle Batteries Complicate Efforts to Fight Fire on Drifting Ship in Atlantic Ocean
The large number of electric vehicles on board a ship that is drifting ablaze in the Atlantic Ocean is complicating...
Fiscal Stimulus Is Turning Into a Fiscal Drag, in a Big Headwind for Growth
The federal pandemic support that helped propel the economy to blistering growth last year and put upward pressure on inflation...
Firefighting Boats Head to Burning Ship Carrying Volkswagen, Porsche and Bentley Cars
BERLIN—Firefighting tug boats were headed on Saturday toward the Felicity Ace, a 60,000-ton ship ablaze in the Atlantic Ocean that...
Inside Subway’s Turnaround Plan
Subway, which has the most locations of any restaurant chain in the U.S., is pursuing a new way to try...
California’s Green-Energy Subsidies Spur a Gold Rush in Cow Manure
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. , a major distributor of natural gas made from waste, found a way to boost its...
Wary of Being Left in the Dark, Americans Produce Their Own Power
As the American electric grid becomes less dependable, a growing number of businesses and homeowners are buying their own power...
Elon Musk’s Accusation of Harassment Countered by SEC
WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission pushed back Friday on Tesla Inc.’s allegation that regulators are harassing Chief Executive Officer Elon...
Fed Sets Trading Restrictions for Top Officials
The Federal Reserve formally adopted new ethics rules aimed at limiting financial-market trading by its top officials, senior staff and...
Fed Officials Lean Against Expectations of Half-Point Increase in March
Federal Reserve officials pushed back Friday against the prospect that they would begin raising interest rates next month with a...
GE Warns Supply-Chain Issues to Pressure Profits, Cash Flow
General Electric Co. warned that supply-chain problems, labor shortages and inflation would weigh on its financial results in the first...
Climate Disclosure Poses Thorny Questions for SEC as Rules Weighed
A key sticking point as the agency considers corporate rules is how much detail to demand about emissions produced by...
Intel CEO Sees Revenue Growth Gaining Pace Starting Next Year
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger set a goal for the company to reach double-digit revenue growth in three to...
Alibaba, Tencent E-Commerce Sites Tagged by U.S. for Counterfeit Sales
Both were on the “notorious markets’’ list of entities that allegedly sell or facilitate the sale of counterfeit goods. Source...
Tesla Tells Federal Judge That SEC Is Harassing Elon Musk and the Company
Tesla Inc. says regulators are harassing Chief Executive Elon Musk over his compliance with a 2018 regulatory settlement that sought...
