Visa tops earnings expectations as CFO sees ‘no evidence of a pullback’ in spending

Visa Inc. topped expectations with its latest results Tuesday and gave an upbeat signal to investors about the resilience of spending volumes in the current macroeconomic climate. Amid increasing unea...

VW Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles

Key shareholders in Volkswagen joined forces with labor leaders to oust Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, who was in the midst of a push to turn the German auto company into a top maker of electr...

The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most

Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...

GE’s Three-Way Split Is Near. What the New Companies Will Be Called.

Text size GE’s aviation business will become GE Aerospace. Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images General Electric is undertaking an epic transformation under the leadership of CEO Larry Culp—the ...

GM CEO Mary Barra Warns Chip Shortage Will Go Into 2023. She Wants Congress to Help.

Text size Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, says the U.S. must do more to encourage chip manufacturing domestically. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images General Motors didn’t finish 95,000 cars in...

Rivian CEO Hosted an All-Hands Meeting. What Was Discussed.

Text size Electric-truck start-up Rivian recently announced layoffs. Courtesy Rivian Fast-growing electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive is laying off workers. The news surprised the market earlier...

Celsius Owes Users More Than $4.7 Billion

Celsius Network LLC has a roughly $1.2 billion hole in its balance sheet, with the majority of its liabilities owed to the cryptocurrency lender’s users, according to a Thursday filing by Chief Execut...

The Wing CEO Exits After Five Months in Top Job

The chief executive of women-focused co-working company the Wing, Jen Cho, has left the company after fewer than six months in the role. Ms. Cho declined to comment on her reasons for leaving the comp...

California Truckers Struggle to Comply With New Employment Law

Trucking companies and truck owner-operators are scrambling to figure out how to operate under a new California law that toughens definitions of nonemployee drivers, upending decadeslong practices tha...

Broadcom loses top software exec in the middle of VMware deal to head combined Citrix-Tibco company

Broadcom Inc.’s head of software Tom Krause is leaving the company in the middle of a $61 billion software acquisition he helped bring about, which analysts called “a surprise” and “not the greatest o...

Will Coinbase go bankrupt? Crypto CEO says there is ‘no risk of bankruptcy’

““We have no risk of bankruptcy.”” That’s a quote from Brian Armstrong, chief executive and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase COIN, -10.63%. In a series of tweets on May 10, Arms...

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...

Kraft Heinz’s Miguel Patricio: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Miguel Patricio, CEO of Kraft Heinz Courtesy of Kraft Heinz Text size This month marks the seventh anniversary of the merger that created Kraft Heinz . The deal, led by Warren Buffett and Brazil’s 3G ...

Elon Musk terminates deal to buy Twitter, and Twitter’s chairman promises a legal fight

Elon Musk is backing out of his agreement to buy Twitter Inc., and Twitter’s chairman has already promised a legal fight. In a letter sent to Twitter’s TWTR, -5.10% chief legal officer on Friday, the ...

Xerox CEO Visentin Has Died. What It Means for the Company.

Text size John Visentin. Courtesy Xerox Xerox Holdings shares are in the spotlight as investors respond to news that CEO and Vice Chairman John Visentin has died unexpectedly at age 59, a development ...

Ford’s Talk of New EV-Selling Rules Rattles Some Dealers

Ford Motor Co. is preparing new rules for how it sells electric vehicles, a shift that is concerning some dealers and seen as challenging the traditional franchise model. Executives from the Detroit g...

Novartis Will Cut 8,000 Jobs Under CEO’s Shake-Up Plan

Text size Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday it will lay off more than 7% of its workforce, just a few months after CEO Vas N...

Grubhub CEO Says Sale Isn’t Imminent, as Owner Seeks a Partner

CHICAGO—Grubhub Chief Executive Adam DeWitt said company parent Just Eat Takeaway.com NV hopes to find a strategic partner to invest in the U.S. online ordering company, though an outright sale isn’t ...

Why UPS Stock Could Be a Winner. Margins Are Improving.

Text size UPS CEO Carol Tome.. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Until recently, United Parcel Service operated a little like the New York Yan...

Digital World Acquisition Discloses Federal Subpoenas as Director Resigns

Digital World Acquisition the special-purpose acquisition company that plans to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social-media company, said a federal grand jury in the Southern District of N...

Boeing Says ‘Drip, Drip’ of Bad News Should Stop. Investors Don’t Believe It.

Text size Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun expects air travel demand to stay. Dreamstime Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun spoke Wednesday at an conference in Qatar arranged by Bloomberg. For investors, there was some g...

I’m the COO of a mortgage company that’s funded more than $100 billion in loans. Here are the 3 things you need to know about the housing market now

Steve Reich Mortgage rates climbed above 6% last week, according to Bankrate data, with some pros saying they may go higher. (You can see the lowest mortgage rates you may qualify for here.) On top of...

Pornhub Parent Company’s CEO, COO Are Departing as Scrutiny Builds Over Alleged Nonconsensual Content

Two top executives at the parent company of major pornography site Pornhub have resigned, the company said Tuesday, amid scrutiny of alleged nonconsensual sexually explicit videos hosted on the site. ...

The 7 Worst Housing Markets in America, According to Lennar

Text size Rising mortgage rates are dragging on the housing market. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Jersey and Florida are hot. Housing in Austin and Seattle is not, according to the co-CEO of the U.S.’s...

Coinbase CEO Blasts Employee Petition Against Executives

Turmoil inside crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc. has spilled out into the public. Co-founder and Chief Executive Brian Armstrong on Friday lashed out on Twitter against an employee petition to remo...

Coinbase CEO tells workers to quit if they don’t believe in top execs, after petition for leadership changes

Coinbase Global Inc. has had a rough stretch lately, as plunging prices for cryptocurrencies have dampened trading interest and prompted the company to curtail rapid hiring plans. The company also see...

Disney’s Abrupt Firing of Top TV Exec Just the Latest Drama Stock Doesn’t Need

Text size Peter Rice joined Disney in 2019. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images A top executive at Walt Disney is leaving nearly a year after renewing his contract in what might be just the latest headache for...

Shopify Shareholders Approve 10-for-1 Stock Split

Text size Shopify is the latest tech company to split its stock. Dreamstime The stock split trend continues. Shopify (ticker: SHOP ) shareholders on Tuesday approved a 10-for-1 split, along with the i...

Howard Schultz Says Starbucks Is Seeking Fresh Blood in CEO Search

SEATTLE—Starbucks is considering only external candidates for its next chief executive officer, as interim CEO Howard Schultz said the company needs to add new talent and skills to its senior leadersh...

Chevron CEO Sees Russian Oil Output Falling After Exit of Western Firms

Russia is still finding a home for much of its oil despite expanding sanctions, but its production likely will diminish following the departure of western oil companies, Chevron Chief Executive Mike W...

Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’

Elon Musk is giving his employees an ultimatum. Tesla’s  TSLA, -2.36% chief executive officer and founder responded Thursday to an apparent leaked email that called on employees to return to the offic...