Cost-conscious consumers are buying more store brands at the supermarket, raising pressure on big food companies that are dealing with their own rising costs. Lower-cost oatmeal, pickles, granola bars...
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There Are Signs Inflation May Have Peaked, but Can It Come Down Fast Enough?
Growing signs that price pressures are easing suggest that June’s distressingly high 9.1% increase in consumer prices will probably be the peak. But even if inflation indeed comes down, economists see...
Bed Bath & Beyond Followed a Winning Playbook—and Lost
Mark Tritton arrived at Bed Bath & Beyond in 2019 with a plan to revive the home-goods retailer and ward off competition from Amazon.com Inc., Target Corp. and other large chains: sell what nobody...
Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient
Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it...
Oil Doesn’t Have to Boom for These Companies to Thrive
Oil-and-gas companies aren’t anywhere close to drilling as much as they did in 2014, but some oil-field service companies are squeezing out profit as if they were. Schlumberger said on Friday that its...
Nokia Boosts Sales as Turnaround Gains Steam
Nokia said it was on track to hit the higher end of its 2022 sales forecast, as sales of its telecommunications equipment rose in North America and its efforts to rebound from the missteps of recent y...
China Fines Ride-Hailing Giant Didi $1.2 Billion, Citing Cybersecurity Breaches
SINGAPORE—Chinese authorities fined ride-hailing company Didi Global the equivalent of about $1.2 billion, bringing an end to a yearlong investigation into the company’s cybersecurity practices. The f...
Ford Plans to Cut Several Thousand Salaried Jobs
Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut several thousand white-collar workers as it looks to trim costs to position the company for a long-range transition to electric vehicles, according to people familiar...
Boeing Poised to Increase 787 Production Once Deliveries Resume
FARNBOROUGH, England—Boeing is preparing to increase production of its 787 Dreamliner soon after U.S. air-safety regulators allow the aircraft to resume deliveries, according to a person close to the ...
3M Earplugs Fight Stems From Self-Made Legal Battle
A long-running legal battle over allegedly defective earplugs made by 3M arose after the company initiated a separate dispute against a smaller competitor, court documents showed. 3M’s effort to prote...
GSK Spins Off $36 Billion Consumer-Healthcare Business Haleon
GSK PLC completed the spinoff of its consumer-healthcare business, a bet that greater focus on innovative drugs and vaccines will help accelerate growth at the pharmaceuticals giant. The new stand-alo...
All Jobs Businesses Cut in Pandemic Are Back, but Not Where They Were Lost
Private-sector payrolls exceeded prepandemic levels in June, taking just over two years to close a 21 million job gap that was created in the spring of 2020 and reshaping the labor market in the proce...
Chip Investment Decisions Await Congressional Action on $52 Billion Funding Bill
Political wrangling in Congress over government funding for the semiconductor industry is leaving tens of billions of dollars of potential factory projects hanging in limbo and could dent the ambition...
Stock Investors, After Brutal Stretch, Have Rarely Been This Pessimistic
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EU Shipowners Race to Move Russian Oil Before Sanctions Kick In
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Fed’s Bullard Raises Target for Year-End Funds Rate
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said Friday that unexpectedly high inflation calls for a more aggressive path of short-term interest rate rises this year. Inflation “has come...
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...
Euro Slips Below Dollar as Europe’s Economic Fortunes Slump
The euro’s slide below parity with the U.S. dollar reflects Europe’s sinking economic fortunes in the face of the war in Ukraine. But unlike the last time the euro was this weak 20 years ago, nobody i...
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...
IRS Gives Wealthy Families More Time to Shelter Assets from Estate Tax
The federal government is giving widows and widowers more time to deal with the intricacies of the estate tax after a spouse dies. When one spouse dies, their partner often inherits all or part of the...
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...