China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, secured a groundbreaking third leadership term on Sunday and introduced a new Politburo Standing Committee stacked with loyalists in a clean sweep not seen since the er...
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Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Hangs Legal Defense on Expert Testimony
Updated Oct. 4, 2022 3:02 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Lawyers for Trevor Milton are anchoring the Nikola founder’s defense against securities-fraud charges on the testimony of a Harvard profes...
‘We are in deep trouble’: Billionaire investor Druckenmiller believes Fed’s monetary tightening will push the economy into recession in 2023
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller sees a “hard landing” for the U.S. economy by the end of 2023 as the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary tightening will result in a recession. “I will be...
Chinese E-Commerce Companies Suffer as Economy Sours
Chinese consumers are cutting back on discretionary purchases and becoming more thrifty as the country’s economic slowdown drags on, impeding the once-inexorable growth of the country’s e-commerce com...
U.S. Companies on Pace to Bring Home Record Number of Overseas Jobs
U.S. companies are bringing workforces and supply chains home at a historic pace. American companies are on pace to reshore, or return to the U.S., nearly 350,000 jobs this year, according to a report...
Opinion: Step aside, FAANMGs. This new crop of tech companies are the ones to watch for the next decade.
Investors have had a change of heart after selling technology stocks for the better part of eight months. There has been a trend reversal after bellwether tech companies reported earnings for the mo...
Moderna CEO: No ‘Crazy’ Deals. We’re Giving Cash to Shareholders.
Text size Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel says his company will keep returning cash to investors until it finds a better way of creating value. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Moderna ’s CEO is feeling no pressure ...
Moderna’s Earnings Are Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Moderna is developing two vaccines for the fall, one for the U.S. and the other for international markets. Sean Gallup/Getty Images As the U.S. prepares for a broad Covid-19 booster campaign...
Shell Posts Record Quarterly Profit on Soaring Energy Prices
LONDON—Shell PLC reported a second consecutive record quarterly profit as the oil major benefited from soaring global energy prices and a continued rebound in the global economy. The London-based comp...
If this stock market is shaping up like 2008, here’s where we could be headed next, says strategist
Those looking for a bit of good news to start the week may have to cast the net further out. Stocks are tilting lower as COVID-19 cases flare up in China, threatening more lockdowns. And the plate was...
Bed Bath & Beyond Insiders Scooped Up Stock After an Awful Quarter
Text size Bed Bath and Beyond insiders snapped up shares of the home-goods retailer. Erin Cadigan/Dreamstime.com Everything but the kitchen sink has seemed to go wrong at Bed Bath & Beyond , but t...
Fed Up With China, One Boss Tries Removing It From the Supply Chain
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Pfizer Raises Covid-19 Vaccine Price 27%. What It Means for the Stock.
Text size Pfizer said it has signed a deal to supply the U.S. with vaccines in the fall, while Moderna has yet to announce a sale. Jacob King – WPA Pool / Getty Images Pfizer has raised the U.S....
Novavax’s New Covid-19 Vaccine Might Be Late to the Party
It’s one thing to arrive fashionably late to a party, it’s another thing to waltz in when the last guests are stumbling out the door. For Novavax , which on Tuesday cleared a key step toward U.S. Food...
If Oil Keeps Rising, These 5 Stocks Could Benefit
Text size The price of oil has been steadily rising, while making higher highs and higher lows. Xiaomin Wang/Dreamstime.com Oil could be headed for $150 a barrel. That might not be good for the econom...
‘Pretend to work somewhere else.’ Elon Musk reportedly tells Tesla staff working remotely is no longer an option.
“They should pretend to work somewhere else.” That was Tesla’s TSLA, -2.88% chief executive officer Elon Musk, responding to an apparent leaked email making the rounds that was addressed to the electr...
U.S. stock futures rise in holiday trade as Shanghai sets reopening plans
U.S. stock futures rose on Monday in light holiday volume, helped by plans from the world’s number-two economy to lift some restrictions as it fights COVID more aggressively than the rest of the world...
Stock Market Today: Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Move Higher on Memorial Day
Text size Stock and bond trading will resume on Wall Street on Tuesday after Memorial Day. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks and U.S. futures rose on Monday amid a quiet day for markets due ...
This Half-Built Ohio Factory Shows How Peloton Mismanaged the Pandemic
In a northwest Ohio industrial park, up the highway from a new Amazon.com Inc. warehouse and a soon-to-open solar-panel plant, Peloton Interactive is building a million-square-foot factory that it wil...
China’s Slowdown Could Tamp Down Global Inflation
China’s slowdown may have a silver lining for the rest of the world: weaker inflation. Growth in the world’s second-largest economy has tumbled this year as Covid-19 outbreaks triggered mass lockdowns...