US Business

Friday’s Commerce Department report on U.S.consumer spending and inflation highlights a relatively quiet week for economic data.

Democrats and Republicans are still far apart on the size and composition of an infrastructure bill and on the need for an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Western consumers are starting to indulge in services that were off limits during the lockdown. Businesses, economists and policy makers are trying to discern whether that shift will mean a cutback in spending on goods.

More than a year into America’s great remote-work experiment, many companies say productivity has held up or even risen. So why do some bosses think that remote workers aren’t as committed as office dwellers?

Losing international business from TikTok parent ByteDance has cut into revenue growth and market share for Alibaba’s cloud division.

An acceleration in Covid-19 vaccinations appears to be having a more beneficial impact on Europe’s services sector than anticipated, while U.S. services businesses saw their sharpest increase in activity in more than a decade.

The Federal Aviation Administration has determined that Mexico’s oversight falls short of international standards.

With coming high-profile releases like Paramount’s “A Quiet Place Part II,” which debuts next weekend, Hollywood’s box-office business model faces its biggest test yet.

A debate over how much to push back against the Chinese government has set off a conflict inside Better Cotton Initiative, a coalition that guides much of the world’s cotton production.

Supermarket workers are back in the middle of the conversation about face masks, having to explain store policies, manage anxious shoppers and assess who is allowed to go maskless as mandates ease for the vaccinated.