Новости за 16.02.2018

Is the French government under Emmanuel Macron any closer to letting go of Renault, France’s biggest car maker? The signals are mixed, but a move might be worth betting on anyway.

Designers are rediscovering the delicate, historic textile. Here’s why you should, too.

Retailers rang up their strongest holiday sales since 2011, but now they have to figure out what to do with an estimated $90 billion in returned holiday sales of apparel, electronics and sporting goods.

Just in time for Lunar New Year, when movie-going is popular in China, four Chinese-made movies are set for release in the U.S. as Hollywood forges more ties with the world’s next top box-office market.

Prices for foreign-made goods imported to the U.S. rose in January, driven by a broad range of product price increases and capping a week of solid inflation readings.

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Inspired by the glamorous ocean liners of yesteryear, novelist Richard Mason sets out on a luxury cruise, only to find the reality far less rosy than his fantasy.

Most borrowers who left college or graduate school owing at least $50,000 in student loans in 2010 had failed to pay down any of their debt four years later, according to a study by the Brookings Institution.

U.S. households’ confidence in the economic outlook rebounded this month, as a gauge of consumer sentiment hit its second-highest level since 2004.

Housing construction got off to a strong start in 2018, which could help boost economic growth and ease home-price increases in the coming months.

The Massachusetts senator gives the Native American claim another try.

Automation is finally coming into fashion, with sewing robots that can produce clothes faster than human hands. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Jason Bellini takes a look at the latest technology and what it means for the 60 million people who work in the garment industry. Photo: Ismail Ferdous for The Wall Street Journal

Newell Brands CEO Mike Polk, facing a proxy fight with an activist investor seeking to oust him and the entire board, said a bruising retail environment and not management missteps are behind the company’s recent woes.

President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan has left investors in infrastructure firms unimpressed.

Brazil’s military is expected to take over public security duties in Rio de Janeiro, where violent crime has soared amid a fiscal crisis in the state government and a deep recession in the oil sector.

After shuttering his world-famous restaurant for almost a year, René Redzepi is reopening in a new Copenhagen location with architecture by Bjarke Ingels.

“Fortnite” wasn’t a big hit when it first came out as a $40 game. To attract players, Epic Games made an unusual decision: create a free version.

After winning “best restaurant in the world” four times, Noma’s chef-owner René Redzepi closed the doors to rethink everything. Here, he shows us some of his new menu. Photo: Ditte Isager for WSJ. Magazine.

In CBS and Viacom’s on-again, off-again merger talks, the burden falls disproportionately on Viacom to make the case that it is worth CBS’s trouble.

News and analysis from WSJ's Washington bureau

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. and Turkey won’t “act alone any longer,” but the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies fell short of immediate concrete steps to improve what the top U.S. diplomat described as a “crisis point” in relations.

Prelate in violent Guerrero state tries to broker disputes between gangs and protect his priests, nuns and local communities from their wrath.

Quadruple jumps were once considered a rare acrobatic feat, but they have become all but necessary in men’s figure skating. Olympians Adam Rippon and Vincent Zhou explain what quads mean for the sport. Photo composite: Heather Seidel

Starting on Thursday, Google’s Chrome browser will block certain types of online advertisements, a change Google is describing as user friendly. But some in the industry say the ad giant’s move is self-serving, and they contend Google overly influenced the process that selected which ad types to block.

Publishers are greeting the launch of Google’s ad blocker with a mixture of relief and unease, pleased that it is purging intrusive ads but worried over the internet giant’s power to quickly overhaul the industry.