US Business

Economic numbers coming in from around the globe are laying bare a stark truth amid the coronavirus pandemic: April was the cruelest month.

Auto makers are grappling with absent U.S. factory workers and Covid-19 cases at their reopened plants, complicating the companies’ efforts to recoup production lost to the pandemic.

Grocers charged into delivery to meet a surge in demand sparked by the coronavirus crisis, though many haven’t figured out how to get food to customers’ homes profitably and some wonder if they ever will.

The new coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout threaten to exacerbate mortality rates for African-Americans.

The pandemic closed more than 5,000 U.S. hotels. To bounce back, the hospitality industry has to reinvent itself as it reopens.

Hertz Global won a bankruptcy judge’s approval to raise up to $1 billion in new equity from a counterintuitive stock rally, a move for a company eager to capitalize on market anomalies.

Starbucks said it would make T-shirts bearing the “Black Lives Matter” slogan available to employees, reversing an earlier directive not to display the slogan on their person at work.

State investigators are examining Amazon.com’s business practices as part of an inquiry into the tech giant, according to people familiar with the matter.

The state of California has said film and television production can resume Friday, roughly three months after being shut down because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But few are ready to shout “lights, camera, action” just yet.

As the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the shift to online shopping, customer-service operations at some big retailers are overwhelmed by shoppers frustrated by delayed shipments and sluggish refunds for returned goods.