Freeport LNG Says It Hopes for Restart of Texas Plant in December

Freeport said production could reach 2 billion cubic feet per day in January, and full production could be back in March 2023. Photo: MARIBEL HILL/Maribel Hill via REUTERS Nov. 18, 2022 12:44 pm ET | ...

Kroger Pauses Buybacks to Prioritize Debt Reduction After Albertsons Deal Closes

Grocery giant Kroger Co. is pausing share buybacks ahead of its planned acquisition of rival Albertsons Cos. Inc., aiming to use the additional cash to reduce its debt as it closes one of the biggest ...

Venezuela’s U.S. Creditors Take Small Comfort From Sanctions Relief

Venezuela’s creditors welcomed its potential rapprochement with the U.S. but still face risks and uncertainties in collecting from the South American country’s bankrupt government as its relations wit...

Electric-Vehicle Makers and Suppliers Drive Into a Stormy IPO Market

Updated Oct. 8, 2022 5:33 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-vehicle makers in Asia and the companies that supply them are rushing to capital markets to raise money, as they try to take adva...

Memory Chip Makers Struggle With Declines in Demand, Price

Listen to article (2 minutes) The pandemic boom in memory chips is on pause. A decline in prices in recent months has led the biggest memory players—including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology...

Exxon CEO Warns Biden Administration Against Limiting Fuel Exports

Exxon Mobil is pushing back against reductions of U.S. fuel exports urged by the Biden administration in August, arguing that restricting shipments would further squeeze global supplies and lift pump ...

Walmart, Target Urge Lawmakers to Pass Bill Taking Aim at Visa, Mastercard Fees

More than 1,600 merchants including Walmart and Target are urging U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation that aims to break the hold that Visa and Mastercard have over the credit-card market. The bill, wh...

Sears Gets Green Light to Wrap Up Bankruptcy Case After 4 Years

A bankruptcy judge signed off on a $180 million settlement of a Sears Holdings Corp. creditor lawsuit against former Chairman Edward S. Lampert and other executives, clearing the final hurdle for the ...

NewAge Says Cost of Internal Probe Contributed to Bankruptcy

NewAge Inc., a publicly traded seller of beverages, supplements and other health and wellness products, said its bankruptcy filing is due in part to the cost of an investigation into a potential viola...

3M Is Denied Bankruptcy Shield Against Mass Earplug Claims

A bankruptcy judge declined on Friday to shield 3M Co. from continued litigation involving its military earplugs, a setback for the conglomerate’s attempt to shift the mass injury claims to a friendli...

Bed Bath & Beyond Clinches Loan Deal

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has found a financing source to shore up its liquidity as it tries to weather recent missteps, according to people familiar with the matter. The company on Tuesday told pros...

J&J Unit Tells Appeals Court Only Bankruptcy Can Settle Talc Claims

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary urged a federal appeals court to uphold the controversial legal strategy it used to move to bankruptcy roughly 38,000 lawsuits linking its talc-based products to can...

Judge Knocks 3M Bankruptcy Strategy for Military Earplug Lawsuits

A federal judge criticized 3M Co. ’s attempt to use the protections of chapter 11 to resolve mass injury claims by U.S. military veterans, but will allow a bankruptcy court to decide whether to shield...

Dollar Softens as CPI Data Changes Fed Rate-Hike Expectations

Updated Aug. 10, 2022 1:36 pm ET | WSJ Pro 13:24 ET – Weaker-than-expected CPI has changed the market’s view of the Fed’s rate-increase trajectory over the next year or so, Bruce Clark, senior m...

For Crypto Customers, a Long Battle Ahead in Bankruptcy

Millions of customers of crypto platforms Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. and Celsius Network LLC have been thrust into a potentially long and painful battle in bankruptcy trying to retrieve their money...

Bank of Mexico Minutes Show Board Open to More 0.75-Point Rate Increases

MEXICO CITY—Bank of Mexico governors all agreed to raise the reference interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point last month to rein in inflation, and most are willing to consider further i...

Amazon and Grubhub Strike Deal to Bring Restaurant Delivery to Prime Members

Amazon.com agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S., in a deal aimed at expanding the food-ordering company’s reach by tapping Amazon’s membership program. Grubhub’s parent, Ne...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

U.S. Natural-Gas Exporter Completes First Deal With German Buyer

Venture Global LNG Inc. has struck the first binding deals by a U.S. natural-gas exporter to supply natural gas to a German company, as the European nation turns to America to help replace supplies fr...

Cosmetics Maker Revlon Nears Chapter 11 Filing

Revlon Inc. is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection as soon as next week after struggling for years with too much debt, stiff competition in the cosmetics business and more recent inflation and...

Stock Futures Fall as Bond Yields Edge Higher

U.S. stock futures fell to start the week, indicating that major equity indexes could decline again following last week’s big swings.  Futures for the S&P 500 declined 1%. Contracts tied to the te...

Chinese Stocks Plunge After SEC Stokes Delisting Concerns

A further step by the Securities and Exchange Commission toward forcing companies from China off American exchanges helped trigger the worst decline in U.S.-listed Chinese stocks since the global fina...

U.S. Stocks Rise After Russia Agrees to Talks With Ukraine

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average rose after Russia agreed to talks with Ukrainian leadership, while Russian forces closed in on Kyiv and bombing intensified in Ukraine. The two benchma...

Apple Stays on Top for Phone Sales in China

Apple Inc. secured the top spot for phone sales in China for a second straight month in November, according to market research data, driven by the success of the iPhone 13 series. The Cupertino, Calif...