Is Sheryl Sandberg’s Power Shrinking? Ten Years of Facebook Data Offers Clues
Facebook Inc. FB 1.07% has grown at an explosive pace. Since 2012, the year it went public, the total number…
DHL Raising Rates for U.S. Shippers by 5.9%
DHL Express is joining FedEx Corp. in raising parcel rates by 5.9% next year. Photo: Richard B. Levine/Zuma Press By…
Amazon’s Hardware Is the Ultimate Black Box
Amazon . com’s hardware ambitions grow bigger—and stranger—by the year. But there has long been a method to the company’s…
Pensions Warm to Stock Funds Modeled to Mirror Private-Equity Returns
Some pension managers are interested in investment strategies that seek to reproduce the performance of private-equity funds through a portfolio…
AMC, Bitcoin, Lordstown, Merck: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today
By James Willhite Close James Willhite Oct. 1, 2021 6:53 am ET Futures are down, putting the S&P 500 on…
Stock Futures Slip, Pointing to Worst Week in Nearly Year
Stock futures declined Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its worst week in almost a year, as investors…
Fed’s Kashkari Is Comfortable With Plans to Taper Bond Buying Soon
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari thinks short-term interest rates will stay near zero for a few more…
Pill Intended to Be Covid-19’s Tamiflu Succeeds in Key Study
Merck MRK 0.03% & Co. and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP said their experimental Covid-19 pill helped prevent high-risk people…
As Selling Luxury in China Gets Tougher, Buy American
For years, buying European luxury stocks has been one of the best ways for investors to get exposure to free-spending…
Deaths Raise Safety Concerns Around Gene Therapy
Safety scares, including deaths of several young study subjects, have set back efforts to bring more gene therapies to market,…
Restaurants Want to Have It Their Way in Congressional Budget Deal
BUDGET PACKAGE TESTS RESTAURANT INDUSTRY, which is pressing to remove many of the legislation’s labor provisions while also asking for…
Would Ticket Holders Pay $25 if They Got Unlimited Food? One Movie Theater Decided to Find Out
A 10-screen movie theater in Woodhaven, Mich., needed help, fast. After closing for 15 months during the pandemic, it reopened…
Low Auto Inventory and Higher Prices Wear Down Frustrated Car Shoppers
The auto industry’s more than yearlong struggle to get more vehicles on dealership lots is starting to wear on car…
Cloud Stocks Sinch and Twilio Soar, Sparking Acquisition Spree
A niche corner of the cloud software market that helps companies connect with customers has produced some impressive returns for…
Capital Gains and Capital Pains in the House Tax Proposal
It hasn’t been noticed much, but proposed changes to capital-gains taxes have good news for some of the highest-earning Americans…