Macau Casinos to Reopen Saturday After Covid-19 Shutdown
Casinos in the gambling hub of Macau will be allowed to reopen Saturday after a nearly two-week shutdown amid a...
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CDC Recommends Novavax’s Covid Vaccine for Adults 18 and Older
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended the use of Novavax Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine, the final hurdle...
Macau Shuts Casinos as City Enters Weeklong Lockdown
Residents lined up to get tested for the coronavirus in Macau last week. Photo: STRINGER/REUTERS HONG KONG—The gambling enclave of...
Red States Are Winning the Post-Pandemic Economy
The pandemic has changed the geography of the American economy. By many measures, red states—those that lean Republican—have recovered faster...
Walgreens Shifts Into Recession Mode as Covid Boom Fades
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is bracing for a recession and life after Covid. The second-biggest U.S. drugstore chain by stores...
China’s Economy Returns to Growth Mode as Covid Lockdowns Lift
SINGAPORE—Economic activity in China expanded in June after three straight months of contraction, according to official surveys of businesses and...
Pfizer’s Omicron-Targeting Covid-19 Vaccines Generate Stronger Immune Response
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE vaccines modified to target the Omicron variant produced a significantly larger immune response than the...
Chinese Internet Giants’ Ad Revenue Suffers as Business Confidence Wanes
Companies in China are cutting back on digital-ad spending as the economy slows and recurring Covid-19 outbreaks weigh on consumption,...
Covid Fallout Flattens JD.com’s Online Birthday Bash
SINGAPORE—Chinese online shopping giant JD.com midyear e-commerce extravaganza recorded the slowest sales growth in at least five years, in the...
FDA Advisers Review Pfizer, Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines in Young Children
A positive recommendation would likely lead soon to expanding the U.S. Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the 19.6 million children 6...
Three-Dose Pfizer Covid Vaccine Works Safely in Young Children, Review Says
The FDA staff also said, in a review of study data posted online Sunday, that there were no new safety...
What Do Chinese Consumers Want? Walmart Can’t Figure It Out.
Walmart Inc. opened its first store in China in 1996, a sprawling supercenter in the Hong Kong border city of...
Treasury Releases Pandemic Funding for Small Businesses as They Face New Risks
A federal pandemic aid program aimed at boosting small businesses’ access to capital is getting off the ground more than...
Bottleneck Fuels Record-High Gas Prices
A shortage of fuel-making facilities is pushing U.S. gasoline and diesel prices to record levels, just as drivers prepare for...
China’s Covid-19 Lockdowns Hurt Sales of Starbucks Coffee, Adidas Sneakers
China’s strict Covid-19 lockdowns are hurting consumer spending for everything from coffee to sneakers and hotels, weighing on multinationals with...
WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Looks to Boost Production Outside China
TOKYO— Apple Inc. AAPL 0.17% has told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to boost production outside China,...
Tencent Posts Steepest Profit Decline Since Going Public
Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY -6.29% posted its worst quarterly profit drop since listing in Hong Kong in 2004, with its...
Moderna Ousts Finance Chief Jorge Gomez in First Week on the Job
On Monday, Jorge Gomez took the reins as the finance chief of the biotech success story Moderna Inc., MRNA -6.29%...
Americans Planning Summer Travel Face a New Hurdle: High Inflation
Americans itching to travel this summer after navigating Covid-19 for the past two years face a new disruption to plans:...
Economy Week Ahead: U.S. Inflation, China’s Exports in Focus
Shoppers in a San Francisco grocery store earlier this month. Economists forecast that year-over-year readings for the consumer-price index started...
