US Business

The hospitality executive made Marriott International the world’s largest hotel company and talked often about business leaders’ need to speak out on important social issues.

The New York hedge fund, the largest shareholder in Tribune Publishing, has reached a deal that values the newspaper publisher at about $630 million.

The stock dropped 13% after the data-mining company posted a quarterly loss, but revenue jumped 40%.

The pharmacy and insurance giant’s results beat analysts’ expectations for the final quarter of 2020.

Well-connected Chinese power players were behind layers of opaque investment vehicles that would have profited from the world’s largest stock listing. The information added to concerns about financial risk and anger at Ma’s outspoken criticism.

The former ECB head persuaded nearly all of the country’s squabbling parties to support his government, raising hopes that he can succeed where many others have failed: in leading Italy out of its deep economic malaise.

U.S. crash investigators are examining half a dozen accidents in which private turboprop planes built by Piper Aircraft experienced difficulties with steering on runways after touchdowns.

The listing clears the way for shipments of free vaccines to developing nations under a plan to vaccinate 20% of the people in the world’s 92 poorest countries.

Pandemic border closures and visa restrictions by the Trump administration last year were intended to curb coronavirus spread and keep more jobs open for Americans; many weren’t interested or qualified.

As Harvard, Stanford and other schools skip some rankings this year, European universities top lists, and lesser-known M.B.A. programs get a boost.