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Walt Disney’s board replaced Chief Executive Bob Chapek with Robert Iger, the company’s former chairman and CEO who had left at the end of last year. Disney’s stock price shot up in premarket trading.

Employees have been working for weeks to prepare for the sporting extravaganza, a Twitter executive says.

Inflation is souring the holiday season, a crucial time when companies, charities and nonprofits typically collect their biggest haul of the year. “I can’t give the way I want to this year.”

Add rising interest rates to the challenges small businesses are already grappling with, including inflation, labor shortages and strained supply chains.

Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of defrauding investors in blood-testing company Theranos, was sentenced to 135 months in prison, capping the extraordinary downfall of a onetime Silicon Valley wunderkind.

Sales of previously owned homes declined 5.9% in October from the prior month, the National Association of Realtors said.

The move broadens the former president’s potential reach days after he declared another run for the White House.

The emerging picture of what went wrong suggests the crypto empire was a mess almost from the start, with few boundaries, financial or personal.

The directors’ desire to keep the serial entrepreneur focused on the car maker contributed to the pursuit of a multibillion-dollar equity grant.

Mr. Musk has tried to frame demands for long hours of “hardcore” work at Twitter in altruistic terms but it isn’t clear that they are motivating employees.