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...
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Global markets stabilize as Russian invasion threat continues
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 and Japan's benchmark Nikkei (N225) closed down 1% and 0.4%, respectively, while South Korea's Kospi (KOSPI) was...
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...
Farmers Feel the Squeeze of Inflation
Inflation is growing on the farm. American farmers are paying significantly higher prices for their weed-killing chemicals, crop seeds, fertilizer,...
Harvard Wants M.B.A.s to Learn How to Be Happy at Work
A hot course at Harvard Business School promises to teach future leaders an elusive skill—managing happiness. One of the toughest...
The 2022 Super Bowl Ads Return to Travel, Familiar Faces and New Tech
The second Super Bowl of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday featured a variety of first-time advertisers, including a slew of...
Musk blames ‘fun police’ for recall of feature that makes fart and goat noises
The Boombox feature allowed drivers to play preset or custom sounds from an external speaker while the vehicle is moving....
Canned cocktails are so big, they’ve made it to the Super Bowl
The commercial, an homage to/parody of Apple's "Here's to the crazy ones" campaign, is a love letter to the "lazy"...
India’s Gautam Adani unseats Mukesh Ambani as Asia’s richest billionaire
The 59-year-old founder of Adani Group controls companies ranging from ports and aerospace to thermal energy and coal, and now...
Peter Thiel to Step Down From Facebook Parent Meta’s Board
Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s earliest investors and its longest-serving outside board member, is planning to step down from his...
Toshiba Looks to Split Two Ways Instead of Three
TOKYO— Toshiba Corp. TOSYY 0.92% revised its restructuring plan and said it wants to split into two parts instead of...
Amazon Profits Show Resilience Even as Labor, Supply Crunch Weigh on Results
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -7.81% said profits nearly doubled in the critical holiday period, as the company managed to control labor...
Turkey’s inflation soars to two-decade high of almost 49%
Consumer prices jumped 11.1% from the previous month, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) said, eating deeply into Turks' earnings. Both...
Google Parent Caps Blockbuster Year With Sales Gains
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.61% posted another quarter of strong sales growth, capping a year when profit nearly doubled...
The end of ‘Londongrad?’ UK threatens to hit Russian oligarchs with sanctions
But decades of loose regulation and courting of Russian investors mean that some Putin allies are now so deeply integrated...
Peloton die-hards are sticking with the flailing company
With Peloton's pileup of problems, we asked Peloton users to tell us if they're still willing to stick with the...
Microsoft Earnings Grew Last Quarter With Demand for Cloud Services
Microsoft Corp. MSFT -2.66% said its earnings continued to grow last quarter as its cloud-services business stayed strong.On Tuesday, the...
Kroger Workers Approve New Contract After Nine-Day Strike
More than 8,000 workers at Kroger Co. KR -3.12% ’s King Soopers grocery stores ratified a new three-year contract following...
Software Provider Globalization Partners Gets Vista Equity Backing at $4.2 Billion Valuation
Globalization Partners, a software provider that helps businesses streamline the process of hiring employees internationally, has landed new backing from...
Winter Olympics Sponsors Caught Between Beijing, U.S.
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the Winter Games in Beijing, several Olympics sponsors are...
