Wall Street Journal

Bayer Swings to Net Profit on Smaller Litigation Charges

Bayer Swings to Net Profit on Smaller Litigation Charges

The company said its 2026 sales and earnings forecasts were unchanged when adjusted for currency changes, and that year-...

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HSBC Posts Sharply Higher Quarterly Profit, Plans $1 Billion Share Buyback

HSBC Posts Sharply Higher Quarterly Profit, Plans $1 Billion Share Buyback

The London-based bank said its second-quarter net profit jumped 68% from a year earlier to $7.69 billion and announced a...

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Lufthansa Tightens 2026 Guidance After Profit Slump

Lufthansa Tightens 2026 Guidance After Profit Slump

The carrier group reported net profit of €123 million for the second quarter, compared with €1.01 billion in the prior-y...

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Anduril Weighs Baltimore Shipyard Investment to Build Drone Boats

Anduril Weighs Baltimore Shipyard Investment to Build Drone Boats

The defense-tech company is in talks for a production site at historic Sparrows Point, as the Iran war has demonstrated ...

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Whirlpool Abandoned Its Global Ambitions. Now It’s in a World of Hurt.

Whirlpool Abandoned Its Global Ambitions. Now It’s in a World of Hurt.

The company’s focus on North America has tied its fortunes to the slumping U.S. housing market....

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Opinion | Unions Are Coming for Your Uber Driver

Opinion | Unions Are Coming for Your Uber Driver

Massachusetts imposes ‘sectoral bargaining’ on ride-share workers, who may find themselves government by agreements they...

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Palantir Shares Jump as Revenue Nearly Doubles, Company Issues Improved Forecast

Palantir Shares Jump as Revenue Nearly Doubles, Company Issues Improved Forecast

The technology company now expects at least $8.15 billion in full-year revenue; ‘demand for AI sovereignty has now been ...

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Diamondback Energy Lifts Production Guidance, Reports Surging Profit on High Oil Prices

Diamondback Energy Lifts Production Guidance, Reports Surging Profit on High Oil Prices

The company benefited from the run-up in oil prices following the start of the war in Iran....

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People Inc. Profit More Than Doubles on Gains From MGM Investment

People Inc. Profit More Than Doubles on Gains From MGM Investment

The company posted a quarterly profit of $506.9 million, boosted by an unrealized gain on the company’s investment in MG...

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ON Semiconductor Reports Higher Profit, Revenue on Growing AI Data Center Business

ON Semiconductor Reports Higher Profit, Revenue on Growing AI Data Center Business

The chipmaker reported second-quarter net income of $226.8 million, up from $170.3 million a year earlier....

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U.S. Stocks Rally, While Oil Slides on Middle East Diplomacy Hopes

U.S. Stocks Rally, While Oil Slides on Middle East Diplomacy Hopes

U.S. stocks jumped and oil prices fell sharply as President Trump signaled a return to diplomacy with Iran....

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Tom Holland and Zendaya’s Billion-Dollar Box Office Weekend

Tom Holland and Zendaya’s Billion-Dollar Box Office Weekend

The married stars of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” have achieved an unprecedented level of success as a ...

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Trump Blasts Big Oil Companies for ‘Making Too Much Money’

Trump Blasts Big Oil Companies for ‘Making Too Much Money’

The president called out ExxonMobil and Chevron for record profits amid high oil prices....

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Lantheus Holdings to Be Acquired for Initial $6.7 Billion

Lantheus Holdings to Be Acquired for Initial $6.7 Billion

Curium said it would pay $102.50 a share in cash for Lantheus, a 2.9% premium to Friday’s closing price of $99.64 and 8....

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Opinion | AI Companies Need to Drill, Baby, Drill

Opinion | AI Companies Need to Drill, Baby, Drill

That’s the only apparent way they can keep energy costs from exploding....

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Visa to Buy Fraud Defense Platform BioCatch in $2.4 Billion Deal

Visa to Buy Fraud Defense Platform BioCatch in $2.4 Billion Deal

Visa is acquiring BioCatch, a fraud-reduction platform that uses artificial intelligence , for $2.4 billion in cash....

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Can Fast Fashion Fit Into Secondhand Clothes?

Can Fast Fashion Fit Into Secondhand Clothes?

Plus, America’s lettuce crisis has shoppers ditching supermarkets for farmers markets—for now....

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The Paper in Your Paper Towel Is a Candidate for a Radical Overhaul

The Paper in Your Paper Towel Is a Candidate for a Radical Overhaul

Kimberly-Clark says it is developing a fiber that holds the promise to revolutionize paper-based products....

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Rising Beef Costs Pressure Tyson’s Bottom Line

Rising Beef Costs Pressure Tyson’s Bottom Line

A shortage of cattle in the U.S. has been driving up costs for meatpackers like Tyson and JBS in recent years, leading t...

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Marriott Says Middle East Conflict Weighed on Sales

Marriott Says Middle East Conflict Weighed on Sales

Marriott International said the conflict in Iran put a significant damper on second-quarter sales....

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EchoStar’s Hughes Network Files for Bankruptcy as $1.5B Debt Comes Due

EchoStar’s Hughes Network Files for Bankruptcy as $1.5B Debt Comes Due

Hughes Network Systems, owned by Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday....

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KKR to Buy Integer Holdings for $4.3 Billion

KKR to Buy Integer Holdings for $4.3 Billion

Investment firm KKR has struck a deal to acquire medical-device outsourcing company Integer Holdings for about $4.3 bill...

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‘Something Was Wrong.’ Hasbro’s Lessons From a Cyberattack.

‘Something Was Wrong.’ Hasbro’s Lessons From a Cyberattack.

How companies manage crises sometimes can be the source of the greatest lessons for leaders. For toy maker Hasbro, a cyb...

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The Morning Risk Report: Trump Adds to China Forced Labor Blacklist

The Morning Risk Report: Trump Adds to China Forced Labor Blacklist

Plus: AI chatbot, deepfake labeling rules kick off in Europe, and FinCEN director leaves for Citigroup...

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Zach Dell Is Raising Money to Put a Battery in Your Backyard

Zach Dell Is Raising Money to Put a Battery in Your Backyard

Base Power, co-founded by Michael Dell’s son, lands a $13 billion valuation as electricity demand and battery storage ar...

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How ServiceNow’s CEO Weighs Long-Term Bets

How ServiceNow’s CEO Weighs Long-Term Bets

The corporate world has taken more than just algorithms and platforms from the tech world. It has absorbed some of the t...

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Big Fashion Brands Try on a New Trend: Selling Secondhand Clothes

Big Fashion Brands Try on a New Trend: Selling Secondhand Clothes

Retailers are investing in ‘preloved’ apparel drops, partly to offset the environmental cost of churning out a seemingly...

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Nissan Reports First Quarterly Profit in Two Years

Nissan Reports First Quarterly Profit in Two Years

The Japanese carmaker kept its annual earnings forecasts unchanged, even as it lowered its vehicle sales projection....

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TotalEnergies Sells Stake in European Renewable Assets to KKR

TotalEnergies Sells Stake in European Renewable Assets to KKR

TotalEnergies said it agreed to sell a 50% stake in European onshore solar and wind assets to private-equity firm KKR....

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Banco BPM Pulls Out of Merger Talks With Monte Paschi

Banco BPM Pulls Out of Merger Talks With Monte Paschi

The move could clear the way for a rival $35 billion takeover offer from Intesa Sanpaolo....

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Sandoz to Pay Around $480 Million to Settle U.S. Antitrust Pricing Litigations

Sandoz to Pay Around $480 Million to Settle U.S. Antitrust Pricing Litigations

The agreements mean the remaining claims against the Swiss maker of generic drugs in the U.S. generic antitrust litigati...

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easyJet Extends Castlelake Bid Deadline to Align With Apollo

easyJet Extends Castlelake Bid Deadline to Align With Apollo

The low-cost airline said Castlelake has until Friday to align its bid with that of rival Apollo....

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Aperol Can Tap Into Beer Market at Sports and Music Events, Campari CEO Says

Aperol Can Tap Into Beer Market at Sports and Music Events, Campari CEO Says

Aperitif maker Davide Campari-Milano believes Aperol Spritz, a cocktail that mixes the crimson bitters with sparkling wi...

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Atkore Agrees to Be Bought by Prysmian for $3.8 Billion, Including Debt

Atkore Agrees to Be Bought by Prysmian for $3.8 Billion, Including Debt

Atkore shareholders will receive $95 a share in cash....

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Opinion | A Brief History of Wealth Creation

Opinion | A Brief History of Wealth Creation

The ancients aggregated wealth. America was built by creating it. Socialists are blind to all this....

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WestJet Strike Grounds Hundreds of Flights in Canada

WestJet Strike Grounds Hundreds of Flights in Canada

The job action at Canada’s second-largest airline stranded passengers on busy holiday weekend....

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New ‘Spider-Man’ Movie Scores Hollywood’s Second-Biggest Debut Ever

New ‘Spider-Man’ Movie Scores Hollywood’s Second-Biggest Debut Ever

The film’s estimated $355-million domestic opening is just shy of the record set by ‘Avengers: Endgame’ in 2019....

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How Does the Qatar-Donated Air Force One Compare With Other Presidential Jets?

How Does the Qatar-Donated Air Force One Compare With Other Presidential Jets?

From laser weapons to color schemes, transporting the president around the world is a study in details....

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OPEC, Allies Increase Oil Output for Sixth Time in a Row

OPEC, Allies Increase Oil Output for Sixth Time in a Row

The cartel nears the end of a cycle of production hikes, while potentially difficult talks over future quotas loom....

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Workers Seeking Compensation for Injuries Face New Challenge: Fewer Lawyers

Workers Seeking Compensation for Injuries Face New Challenge: Fewer Lawyers

Fewer lawyers pursuing workers’ compensation cases has led to diminished financial prospects for people injured on the j...

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