US Business

Competing effects of central banks, healing supply chains affect recession odds.

Online sellers Shein and Temu are fighting in U.S. courts, alleging dirty tricks as they duel for workers and suppliers back in China.

One of the oldest and biggest U.S. trucking businesses has been wrecked by a string of mergers that left it saddled with debt and has been stalled by a standoff with the Teamsters union.

Deadly incidents raise safety concerns about batteries used to power electric cars and cellphones.

“My biggest concern is that there’s insufficient urgency,” the billionaire tells energy executives.

Barnes & Noble used to be the book industry’s villain. Its new CEO wants to make it more like a scrappy indie outpost—596 of them, to be exact.

Companies that are pulling back are also choosing to hold onto workers, avoiding the large-scale job cuts that led to recessions in earlier economic slowdowns.

Though earnings dipped last quarter, oil giants together added $14 billion in profits to their cash piles and are hunting for potential acquisitions.

Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing the pandemic to a man-made virus.

Beneficient executives and board directors headed for the exits over signs of trouble—long before a financial blowup that is now under investigation by the SEC and which could leave nearly 28,000 investors empty-handed.