Monster Beverage Buys Owner of Craft Breweries Cigar City, Oskar Blues for $330 Million
Monster Beverage Corp. MNST 0.41% has been mulling a move into booze for years. It finally took the plunge Thursday,...
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Grocery Stores Cut Hours, Services as Omicron Infects Workers
Some U.S. supermarkets are reducing hours and cutting services as Covid-19’s Omicron variant infects cashiers, baggers and stockers, deepening grocery...
U.S. Jobless Claims Rise to 230,000
Filings for jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 230,000 last week, an increase of 23,000, as a tight U.S....
China’s Startups Are Awash With Money as Beijing Shifts Focus to ‘Hard Tech’
Unlike in previous years, when most Chinese tech funding went to internet startups in e-commerce, the bulk of the money...
PC Shipments Faced Tough Fourth Quarter, but Pandemic Supplies a Brace
Shortages and bottlenecks weighed on personal-computer shipments in the fourth quarter, but the pandemic-induced revival of the PC market is...
Is Inflation a Microeconomic Problem? That’s What Biden’s Competition Push Is Betting
There’s a saying on Wall Street that the stock market is also a market of stocks: an aggregation of many...
Medicare to Pay for Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug in Clinical-Trial Patients
Medicare officials said they would cover Biogen Inc.’s BIIB 2.64% controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug Aduhelm on the condition that patients...
Fed’s Powell Says Economy No Longer Needs Aggressive Stimulus
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell called high inflation a “severe threat” to a full economic recovery and said Tuesday the...
Amazon Warehouse Workers in Alabama to Hold Second Union Vote
The National Labor Relations Board said the new election will be held by mail, with ballots being mailed to employees...
Planet Fitness to Buy Franchisee Sunshine Fitness for $800 Million
A Planet Fitness staffer in Inglewood, Calif., preparing for reopening last year after being closed for the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo:...
Intel Erases Reference to China’s Xinjiang After Social-Media Backlash
SINGAPORE—Intel Corp. removed references to the Chinese region of Xinjiang from an open letter it sent suppliers last month, after...
Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida to Resign
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said he would resign from the central bank on Friday, two weeks before his...
VW Finance Chief Expects Inflation to Ease and Chip Shortage to Drag On
BERLIN— Volkswagen AG VOW -0.22% , one of the world’s largest auto makers, expects inflation to ease later this year...
Hungry for Chips, Huawei Invests in Chinese Companies That Make Them
HONG KONG—Blocked by the U.S. from buying many of the chips it needs, Huawei Technologies Co. is stepping up investments...
When You’re Burned Out at Your Job, But It’s Also Your Calling
Erine Cressell worked as a hospital nurse for 15 years, with dreams of finishing an advanced degree and treating patients...
Economy Week Ahead: the Fed, Inflation, Consumers
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, here testifying before the Senate Banking Committee in September, is set to return for a confirmation...
How Reliable Are Covid-19 Rapid Tests for Detecting Omicron?
The fast-spreading Omicron variant has made us increasingly reliant on at-home rapid antigen tests to tell us whether we have...
Americans’ Finances Got Stronger in the Pandemic—Confounding Early Fears
The Covid-19 pandemic threatened to ruin Americans’ finances. For many, the opposite happened.Though initial shutdowns caused unemployment to surge to...
The Crowd That Lifted Up Eventbrite’s CEO
Attending a Star Trek convention while working on a documentary series showed Julia Hartz the power of live events. The...
McKinsey’s Top Executive Wants to Change How the Firm Operates
Bob Sternfels took over as McKinsey & Co.’s global managing partner in July at a difficult moment for the consulting...
