Airlines Have Been Staffing Up, Hoping for a Smoother Summer
Facing a summer of packed flights, airlines are striving to avoid the blunders of a year earlier. Carriers say they...
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Warren Buffett’s Protégé Is Building a Mini Berkshire
Tracy Britt Cool spent a decade working for Warren Buffett. She now wants to buy the kinds of companies that...
Nursing Homes Face Growing Number of Lawsuits From Covid-19 Fallout
Two years after the coronavirus ravaged through nursing homes, families of residents who died from Covid-19 are bringing a wave...
AT&T Boss Sees Room to Raise Prices, Cut Costs After Media Exit
AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Stankey says inflation could prompt the wireless and broadband company to raise prices for...
Spirit to Start Talks With JetBlue Over $3.6 Billion Deal
Spirit Airlines Inc. said it would entertain JetBlue Airways Corp.’s unsolicited $3.6 billion bid to buy the airline and start...
Visa Expects to Make Up Lost Russia Revenue Within a Year
Visa Inc. has lost about 4% of the revenue booked during its most recent fiscal year by pulling out of...
Russia Cuts Interest Rate as Financial System Stabilizes
Russia’s central bank cut its key interest rate following an unscheduled meeting of policy makers Friday, a sign that efforts to...
Elon Musk Delivers First Teslas Made in Texas, Teases Future Products
AUSTIN, Texas—Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk delivered the company’s first made-in-Texas vehicles on Thursday, saying the company was entering...
U.S. Takes First Enforcement Actions Against Alleged Violators of Russia Export Controls
WASHINGTON—The U.S. took its first actions Thursday to enforce sweeping restrictions on the export of technology and industrial goods to...
Frontline and Euronav Merge to Create Tanker Giant in $4.2 Billion Stock Deal
Two of shipping’s biggest names, Norway-based Frontline Ltd. and Belgium’s Euronav NV, have agreed to merge in a move that...
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to 166,000, Lowest Level Since 1968
New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to a near 54-year low as employers held on to workers...
Snoring Colleagues, Brushing Teeth With the Boss: Inside Shanghai’s Big Office Sleepover
HONG KONG—The Covid-19 pandemic forced many people to learn to work from home. In China’s financial center, it is now...
Google Loses Upper Hand on App Payments in South Korea
SEOUL—Google can’t punish South Korean app developers for offering payment workarounds, a blow to the U.S. tech giant’s efforts to...
Fed’s Brainard Says Reducing Elevated Inflation ‘Is of Paramount Importance’
A top Federal Reserve official said the central bank is strongly committed to taking steps that will reduce inflation this...
U.S. Trade Deficit Narrowed Slightly in February
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed slightly in February, shrinking 0.1% for the month but remaining close to a record. Both...
With Inflation Not Letting Up, Shoppers Cut Back on Staples
American consumers are starting to cut costs on mainstays from toothpaste to baby formula as inflation hits a swath of...
Venture Powerhouse Sequoia Capital Names New Leader
Sequoia Capital named a new top leader, a rare transfer of power at one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture-capital...
Elon Musk Takes Surprise 9% Stake in Twitter, Sending Shares Higher
In 2021, billionaire CEO Elon Musk reached several milestones across Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink. WSJ reporters Rebecca Elliott and Micah...
Starbucks Suspends Buybacks to Invest in Operations as Schultz Returns
Starbucks Corp. said it is suspending billions of dollars in share repurchases, a move that interim Chief Executive Officer Howard...
How Amazon Workers in New York Became First to Unionize
For about a year, Chris Smalls has stood almost daily near Amazon.com Inc.’s largest warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., campaigning...
