Retail Sales Growth Sluggish Despite Higher Employment, Fatter Paychecks
Spending at U.S. retailers bounced back in March, but the broader trend shows only moderate consumer-spending growth despite a solid labor market and growing paychecks.
Spending at U.S. retailers bounced back in March, but the broader trend shows only moderate consumer-spending growth despite a solid labor market and growing paychecks.
President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said he is optimistic the U.S. can avoid a broader trade fight with China and said the White House was close to securing a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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Netflix’s earnings report in late January featured a record number of new subscriber additions and trounced some already high expectations. That means its results due Monday and accompanying outlook will need to be a hit—a big one.
Stock-picking fund managers have soured on Facebook since the social network’s revelation that millions of users’ data were compromised, with some either partially or completely abandoning their positions.
As the U.S. simultaneously confronts an aggrieved Russia and an aggressive rising power in China, the prospect of a superpower conflict appears realistic for the first time in living memory, Gerald F. Seib writes.
WPP faced serious disruption to its business long before Chief Executive Martin Sorrell stepped down. His exit won’t clear away those problems, but it might set the company on the path to addressing them.
Spending at U.S. retailers bounced back in March, but the broader trend in consumer spending shows only moderate growth despite a solid labor market and growing worker paychecks.
Carl Icahn’s company is selling its majority-owned gaming subsidiary, Tropicana Entertainment, for about $1.85 billion.
People with celiac disease can still consume enough of the protein to trigger health problems.
The coffee industry is fighting the suggestion its products could cause cancer.
India’s monsoon rains, crucial for the majority of farmers who can’t rely on irrigation to water their fields, should be sufficient this year, the South Asian nation’s weather department said Monday.
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“Made in China 2025” is Beijing’s industrial plan to dominate high-tech industries including robotics, aerospace and computer chips. The Trump administration argues China is using the plan to give its tech companies unfair advantage over foreign rivals. But what is it exactly?
Russian metals billionaire Oleg Deripaska profited from his proximity to President Vladimir Putin, but new U.S. sanctions make that relationship a liability.
Volkswagen’s commercial-vehicles unit said it is considering a full takeover of Navistar, an Illinois-based truck maker valued at about $3.66 billion—an ambitious move for the German auto maker just days after naming a new CEO.
When moviegoers in Riyadh take their seats to watch a screening of Walt Disney’s “Black Panther” on Wednesday it will be the first time a Hollywood movie has played in a theater in Saudi Arabia in 35 years.
Xiang Junbo was fired last April amid concerns the industry’s sizzling expansion had saddled the financial system with risk.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, reeling from record-low polls, suffered a new setback on the eve of a trip to the U.S., with the Finance Ministry opening an investigation into sexual-harassment allegations against a top official.
Shire has agreed to sell its oncology business to French drugmaker Servier for $2.4 billion, in a deal that could discourage Takeda from launching a takeover.
Sales of the city’s office towers, apartment buildings, development sites and other properties rose 70% in the quarter from a year ago, signaling confidence in the New York real-estate market.
Stock-picking fund managers have soured on Facebook since the social network’s revelation that millions of users’ data were compromised, with some either partially or completely abandoning their positions.
Russian metals billionaire Oleg Deripaska profited from his proximity to President Vladimir Putin, but new U.S. sanctions make that relationship a liability.
Shire has agreed to sell its oncology business to French drugmaker Servier for $2.4 billion, in a deal that could discourage Takeda from launching a takeover.
Prices of Energizer and Duracell disposable batteries rose by a robust 8% last year—shining a flashlight on a household product that should be obsolete but has proven remarkably resilient.
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