Wall Street Journal

Uber’s Revenue Growth Slows Amid Headwinds From Fuel Prices, Tighter Driver Supply

Uber’s Revenue Growth Slows Amid Headwinds From Fuel Prices, Tighter Driver Supply

Uber Technologies’ revenue growth slowed further in the latest quarter on weakness in its core ride-hailing business....

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A CFO’s Superpower in a Midterm Election: Planning for Multiple Scenarios

A CFO’s Superpower in a Midterm Election: Planning for Multiple Scenarios

Plus, the Democrats’ election blowout; CVS will break off its namesake pharmacies....

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European Freezer Hacks Highlight Risks to Internet-Connected Cold Chain

European Freezer Hacks Highlight Risks to Internet-Connected Cold Chain

Plus, Graphic Packaging Holding signaled that a flow of bad news may be reversing, and Iran is trying to re-assert its g...

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CVS Raises Forecast on Health Care Benefits, Pharmacy Gains

CVS Raises Forecast on Health Care Benefits, Pharmacy Gains

CVS Health raised its full-year guidance on gains in its health-care benefits and pharmacy segments, but said it remains...

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Democrats Take Congress as Trump Says Iran War Is Partly to Blame for GOP Losses

Democrats Take Congress as Trump Says Iran War Is Partly to Blame for GOP Losses

Plus, Iran turns to guerrilla tactics to try to stop the flow of oil leaving the Strait of Hormuz, and CVS Health decide...

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Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla Fall Premarket After Democrats Sweep Midterms

Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla Fall Premarket After Democrats Sweep Midterms

Shares fell sharply premarket after Democratic candidates swept the midterm elections, handing a defeat to Republicans b...

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How Beer Companies Stole Happy Hour From Liquor Brands

How Beer Companies Stole Happy Hour From Liquor Brands

Diageo and Pernod Ricard have missed the cocktails-in-a-can craze, and investors are paying the price....

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Pandora Lifts Outlook Ahead of Peak Festive Season

Pandora Lifts Outlook Ahead of Peak Festive Season

Denmark’s Pandora narrowed its guidance for the current year toward the upper end of the range, as it heads into the cru...

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Volvo Car Sales Drop on Continued China, U.S. Weakness

Volvo Car Sales Drop on Continued China, U.S. Weakness

Volvo Car said global sales fell 16% on year in the three months through October, with demand hit by continued challengi...

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Novo Nordisk Lifts Guidance as Rollout of Wegovy Weight-Loss Pill Continues

Novo Nordisk Lifts Guidance as Rollout of Wegovy Weight-Loss Pill Continues

The Danish drugmaker raised its guidance for the year after noting an improved outlook for its key obesity and diabetes ...

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BMW Cuts Outlook Again as Carmaker Revs Up on Restructuring

BMW Cuts Outlook Again as Carmaker Revs Up on Restructuring

BMW warned that its core automotive segment could slide to a loss for a closely watched profitability metric, as the gro...

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European Gas Market Braces for Trump’s Next Move on Iran After Midterms

European Gas Market Braces for Trump’s Next Move on Iran After Midterms

European natural-gas prices rose following the U.S. midterm elections, as traders wait to see whether President Trump wi...

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Continental Narrows Sales Outlook After Revenue Slumps

Continental Narrows Sales Outlook After Revenue Slumps

The German tire company swung to a profit, though revenue fell 11% in the third quarter....

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Oil Prices Rise as Investors Weigh U.S. Midterm Results, Iran Risks

Oil Prices Rise as Investors Weigh U.S. Midterm Results, Iran Risks

Oil rose as investors gauged how the midterm results could shape Trump’s approach to Iran while high energy prices conti...

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Iran Turns to Guerrilla Tactics in Bid to Reassert Grip on Strait of Hormuz

Iran Turns to Guerrilla Tactics in Bid to Reassert Grip on Strait of Hormuz

Tehran is deploying everything from rocket-propelled grenades to limpet mines as it attempts to disrupt the restored flo...

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Lockheed Martin to Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Federal Probe Over Diversity Efforts

Lockheed Martin to Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Federal Probe Over Diversity Efforts

The Trump administration has been investigating big U.S. companies under a novel use of a law meant to police U.S. gover...

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3M Announces $7.4 Billion Settlement in ‘Forever Chemicals’ Injuries Case

3M Announces $7.4 Billion Settlement in ‘Forever Chemicals’ Injuries Case

The agreement covers up to 120,000 plaintiffs who claim they were hurt by chemicals containing PFAS....

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Booking Profit, Sales Fall as Global Conflicts Wear on Travel Demand

Booking Profit, Sales Fall as Global Conflicts Wear on Travel Demand

The online travel agency posted a third-quarter profit of $2.72 billion, or $3.61 a share, as revenue fell 1% to $8.89 b...

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The Family Behind Some of the World’s Rarest Pearls

The Family Behind Some of the World’s Rarest Pearls

As the pearling industry faces environmental challenges, tariffs and rising labor costs, Paspaley remains one of the las...

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Unilever Eyes $1.1 Billion in Savings as It Plans Leaner Future Away From Food

Unilever Eyes $1.1 Billion in Savings as It Plans Leaner Future Away From Food

The consumer-goods group will outline plans at an investor event Wednesday to save 1 billion euros by the end of 2029 by...

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Yum Says Taco Bell Sales Are Improving After Cyclospora Outbreak Fallout

Yum Says Taco Bell Sales Are Improving After Cyclospora Outbreak Fallout

Taco Bell has been outpacing the broader quick-service restaurant industry since the end of September, Yum! Brands Chief...

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FBI Probes Autism Therapy Provider That Billed $30,000 a Day

FBI Probes Autism Therapy Provider That Billed $30,000 a Day

The investigation follows a Wall Street Journal article examining the billing and collection practices of the Perfect Ch...

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Opinion | Ban Officials From Prediction Market Trading

Opinion | Ban Officials From Prediction Market Trading

Federal and state public officials shouldn’t be able to bet on decisions on which they have insider knowledge....

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The Little-Known Chinese Bank in the Middle of Iranian and Russian Money Flows

The Little-Known Chinese Bank in the Middle of Iranian and Russian Money Flows

China has emerged as a key hub for illicit money flows, but Washington is reluctant to crack down, officials say....

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Shopify Squeezed by AI Compute Costs, Pre-Holiday Infrastructure Buildout

Shopify Squeezed by AI Compute Costs, Pre-Holiday Infrastructure Buildout

The ecommerce company’s third-quarter results and holiday guidance signaled mounting cost pressure from artificial-intel...

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EU Court Advisor Warns AI Chatbots Could Risk Infringing Copyright Law

EU Court Advisor Warns AI Chatbots Could Risk Infringing Copyright Law

Tech companies could risk breaching EU copyright when their AI chatbots reuse news articles to generate answers, a top a...

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Foodtastic Makes Hostile Bid for Rival MTY Food After Being Rejected

Foodtastic Makes Hostile Bid for Rival MTY Food After Being Rejected

Canadian restaurant franchisor Foodtastic launched a hostile bid for MTY Food valuing its rival at roughly 982 million C...

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AI Faces the Electorate in a Multi-Front Midterm Clash

AI Faces the Electorate in a Multi-Front Midterm Clash

Plus, British citizens are finally warming to disaster preparedness following a mix of serious warnings and quirky stock...

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Demand for Forward-Deployed Engineers Is Leading to $1.5 Million Paychecks

Demand for Forward-Deployed Engineers Is Leading to $1.5 Million Paychecks

The hunt for corporate AI returns has spawned a battle for FDEs as enterprises, AI labs and consulting firms fight for t...

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Oil Prices Rebound as U.S. Strikes on Iran Renew Supply Concerns

Oil Prices Rebound as U.S. Strikes on Iran Renew Supply Concerns

Oil prices rose, recovering some of the previous session’s steep losses as investors weighed fresh U.S. strikes on Iran ...

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Intesa Raises Profit Guidance as Takeover of Monte dei Paschi Nears

Intesa Raises Profit Guidance as Takeover of Monte dei Paschi Nears

The lender boosted its outlook, citing higher revenue and stable costs, as it prepares to buy smaller rival Banca Monte ...

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Thomson Reuters Quarterly Profit Falls After Year-Earlier Gain on Asset Sale

Thomson Reuters Quarterly Profit Falls After Year-Earlier Gain on Asset Sale

Thomson Reuters logged a drop in earnings in the third quarter after a year-ago boost from an asset sale and as it was s...

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Yum Revenue Rises Despite Taco Bell Cyclospora Outbreak Fallout

Yum Revenue Rises Despite Taco Bell Cyclospora Outbreak Fallout

Yum! Brands reported higher third-quarter revenue, even as Taco Bell same-store sales dropped following a parasitic outb...

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CFOs, Businesses Grapple with Midterm Uncertainty; Apple Beats Expectations

CFOs, Businesses Grapple with Midterm Uncertainty; Apple Beats Expectations

Plus, chip maker Marvell’s $80 billion deal....

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Keurig Dr Pepper Posts Higher Profit, Sales

Keurig Dr Pepper Posts Higher Profit, Sales

The beverage company reported a third-quarter profit attributable to common shareholders of $810 million, or 59 cents a ...

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U.S. Factory Activity Continues to Expand

U.S. Factory Activity Continues to Expand

Plus, China’s emergence as a shipbuilding and ocean-trade colossus has fueled its growth in naval power....

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Apollo Global Swings to a Loss on Investment-Related Losses

Apollo Global Swings to a Loss on Investment-Related Losses

The alternative asset manager reported a third-quarter net loss attributable to common stockholders of $1.06 billion, or...

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DuPont Swings to a Profit and Lifts Outlook

DuPont Swings to a Profit and Lifts Outlook

DuPont swung to a third-quarter profit of $123 million, or 91 cents a share, from a loss of $123 million, or 88 cents a ...

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