Wall Street Journal

GM Plans $20 Billion in Buybacks, but Warns of Bumpy 2027

GM Plans $20 Billion in Buybacks, but Warns of Bumpy 2027

The automaker’s executives view the stock as fundamentally undervalued, even as auto sales cool....

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Northrop Grumman Expects Growth to Accelerate Next Year on Defense Demand

Northrop Grumman Expects Growth to Accelerate Next Year on Defense Demand

The defense systems company’s third-quarter profit came in at $1.12 billion, or $7.89 a share, up from $1.1 billion, or ...

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Bob Chapek Is Getting $100,000 a Month as Activist’s Nominee for Vail Board

Bob Chapek Is Getting $100,000 a Month as Activist’s Nominee for Vail Board

Oasis Management is paying the consulting fee to the former Disney CEO, one of the activist investor’s four nominees to ...

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Kroger Targets Earnings Growth, Operations Overhaul in New Three-Year Plan

Kroger Targets Earnings Growth, Operations Overhaul in New Three-Year Plan

Grocer said it plans to turn its attention to core strengths as part of a self-funded plan to simplify and modernize the...

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GE Aerospace Continues to See High Demand Despite Supply-Chain Delays

GE Aerospace Continues to See High Demand Despite Supply-Chain Delays

The jet engine maker raised its outlook for the year after third-quarter orders climbed 49%, even as supply-chain snarls...

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Amazon to Hire More Than 300,000 U.S. Workers for Holiday Season

Amazon to Hire More Than 300,000 U.S. Workers for Holiday Season

The company said it is seeking people for seasonal, part-time and full-time roles at its core operations nationwide....

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The Heavy Lift of Adidas’s World Cup Bet

The Heavy Lift of Adidas’s World Cup Bet

Plus, dissolving supplement strips are winning over the wellness crowd....

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General Motors Stock Slides on Narrowed Outlook

General Motors Stock Slides on Narrowed Outlook

The automaker posted a third-quarter profit of $3.34 billion, or $3.73 a share, compared with $1.33 billion, or $1.35 a ...

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Salesforce to Buy Customer-Engagement Platform for Nearly $5.7 Billion

Salesforce to Buy Customer-Engagement Platform for Nearly $5.7 Billion

Salesforce signed a deal to buy Braze for about $5.66 billion including debt, adding a customer-engagement platform to i...

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Synchrony Financial Profit Falls on Higher Costs but Credit Trends Improve

Synchrony Financial Profit Falls on Higher Costs but Credit Trends Improve

Synchrony posted a third-quarter profit of $892 million, or $2.68 a share, down from $1.1 billion, or $2.86 a share, a y...

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3M Lifts Earnings Outlook as Profit Jumps

3M Lifts Earnings Outlook as Profit Jumps

In the third quarter, 3M reported a profit of $1.37 billion, or $2.63 a share, compared with $834 million, or $1.55 a sh...

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RTX Lifts Forecast for Third Time This Year on Aerospace, Defense Demand

RTX Lifts Forecast for Third Time This Year on Aerospace, Defense Demand

RTX said over $81 billion in new commercial and defense awards during the latest third quarter pushed the defense contra...

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Halliburton Logs Sharply Higher Profit as Revenue Climbs

Halliburton Logs Sharply Higher Profit as Revenue Climbs

The Houston oil-services company posted a third-quarter profit of $417 million, or 50 cents a share, compared with $18 m...

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The Morning Risk Report: Saudi Arabia Postpones ‘Davos in the Desert’

The Morning Risk Report: Saudi Arabia Postpones ‘Davos in the Desert’

Plus: DHS orders DeepSeek tech removed from federal civilian IT systems and the new Wild West of gold mining is West Afr...

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Fastenal’s CFO Is Building a Financial Planning Team. AI is Helping.

Fastenal’s CFO Is Building a Financial Planning Team. AI is Helping.

Plus, Mattel names Peter Griffith as CFO, replacing Paul Ruh....

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Hasbro Lifts Outlook as Revenue Jumps

Hasbro Lifts Outlook as Revenue Jumps

Hasbro posted a third-quarter profit of $394.5 million, or $2.77 a share, compared with $233.2 million, or $1.64 a share...

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Revolut Hit by Widespread Outage Affecting Payments, Transfers, Withdrawals

Revolut Hit by Widespread Outage Affecting Payments, Transfers, Withdrawals

Google Cloud also reported issues in Europe on Tuesday, with multiple services experiencing errors according to the comp...

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Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. Now It Faces Its Biggest Disruption in Years.

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. Now It Faces Its Biggest Disruption in Years.

Plus, we examine how the riots in France benefit Marine Le Pen and why nurses are quitting in droves....

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Four Financial Lessons From the Hedge-Fund Divorce Captivating Wall Street

Four Financial Lessons From the Hedge-Fund Divorce Captivating Wall Street

John and Laura Overdeck have been engaged in a monthslong trial that could produce one of the largest divorce settlement...

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Oil Prices Up as Traders Weigh Middle East Supply Risks

Oil Prices Up as Traders Weigh Middle East Supply Risks

Oil prices rose as traders weighed persistent Middle East supply risks against signs of recovering Gulf crude exports an...

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ABB to Pay $495 Million for Controlling Stake in Mitsubishi Electric Unit

ABB to Pay $495 Million for Controlling Stake in Mitsubishi Electric Unit

The Swiss group said that the joint venture with would strengthen its position in Japan, as it reported an increase in o...

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Fashion Brand ME+EM, Worn by British Royals, Posts Sales Growth on U.S. Expansion

Fashion Brand ME+EM, Worn by British Royals, Posts Sales Growth on U.S. Expansion

The U.K. retailer said a strong online performance and store openings bolstered its sales growth, with growing 24% compa...

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Netflix, America’s Dominant Streaming Service, Has Hit a Wall

Netflix, America’s Dominant Streaming Service, Has Hit a Wall

The company is overhauling creative leadership as it struggles to get domestic audiences to watch more....

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Opinion | The Northeast Climate Revolt

Opinion | The Northeast Climate Revolt

Anti-fossil fuel policies that raise utility bills have Democrats in the region playing defense this election year....

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Opinion | Elon Musk Beats Anthropic on Giveaways

Opinion | Elon Musk Beats Anthropic on Giveaways

He says he’ll give every child a share of SpaceX, aka a stake in capitalism....

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Tradeweb to Buy Trumid For About $1.97 Billion

Tradeweb to Buy Trumid For About $1.97 Billion

Tradeweb Markets agreed to buy fixed-income trading platform Trumid, a deal that will mark an expansion into earlier sta...

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Steel Dynamics Reports Higher Profit on Improved Pricing, Lower Imports

Steel Dynamics Reports Higher Profit on Improved Pricing, Lower Imports

The steel producer reported a third-quarter profit of $756 million, up from $403.7 million a year earlier....

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Adidas Spent a Fortune on World Cup Marketing. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Adidas Spent a Fortune on World Cup Marketing. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Companies spending big to build up their brands are under pressure to answer the question: Was it worth it?...

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Mattel Names Peter Griffith Chief Financial Officer, Replacing Paul Ruh

Mattel Names Peter Griffith Chief Financial Officer, Replacing Paul Ruh

Mattel hired Amgen executive Peter Griffith as its new chief financial officer, replacing Paul Ruh, who joined the toy m...

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Unilever Agrees to Sell Welly Bandage Business to Private-Equity Firm

Unilever Agrees to Sell Welly Bandage Business to Private-Equity Firm

Forward Consumer Partners is acquiring the company known for its colorful bandages and bringing back its founder as an a...

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H.B. Fuller Rejects Ancora’s Latest Acquisition Bid, Plans to Consider Selling Noncore Businesses

H.B. Fuller Rejects Ancora’s Latest Acquisition Bid, Plans to Consider Selling Noncore Businesses

Company says Ancora’s revised cash offer of $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion still undervalues its building adhesives soluti...

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Jamie Dimon Ignores the Noise, While Hermès Seeks Suburban Wealth

Jamie Dimon Ignores the Noise, While Hermès Seeks Suburban Wealth

Criticism in the press doesn’t change what’s right, JPMorgan Chase CEO says....

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Silgan to Combine With Trivium Packaging in $3.4 Billion Deal

Silgan to Combine With Trivium Packaging in $3.4 Billion Deal

Silgan Holdings has agreed to combine with Trivium Packaging, creating a global supplier of metal packaging products for...

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Roche Partners With China’s Hansoh in Deal That Could Top $15 Billion

Roche Partners With China’s Hansoh in Deal That Could Top $15 Billion

The Swiss drugmaker will assume responsibility for outside China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan after the completion of ea...

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Jamie Dimon’s View on the U.S. Economy: Booming, but War and Inflation Pose Risks

Jamie Dimon’s View on the U.S. Economy: Booming, but War and Inflation Pose Risks

Plus, Yum Brands’ KFC switches sides in the soda fight....

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Cleveland-Cliffs Revenue Rises on Higher Volumes, Selling Price

Cleveland-Cliffs Revenue Rises on Higher Volumes, Selling Price

Cleveland-Cliffs swung to a third-quarter profit as sales rose, as the company sold more steel products and at higher pr...

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Musk Vows to Give Each U.S. Child a SpaceX Share

Musk Vows to Give Each U.S. Child a SpaceX Share

The world’s richest person made the announcement following similar pledges by Anthropic and other high-profile tech name...

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Quantinuum Sees Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2029 With New Milestone

Quantinuum Sees Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2029 With New Milestone

EXCLUSIVE: Quantinuum says it hit a technical milestone that puts it on a path to achieve fully accurate and reliable qu...

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KKR Sent Formal Objection by EU Over Information Provided in $26 Billion NetCo Deal

KKR Sent Formal Objection by EU Over Information Provided in $26 Billion NetCo Deal

The European Commission said it provisionally found that the group gave what it said was incorrect or misleading informa...

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