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UAW Reaches Tentative Deal to End Strike at Supplier to GM Trucks

Workers at the former American Axle walked off the job June 1....

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Former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond Dies at 87

The driven, unrelenting oil executive remade Exxon into a colossus that for a time became the world’s biggest and most profitable company....

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Opinion | Scott Pelley’s Idea of Journalism

Why would anyone think ‘60 Minutes’ is biased? Consider what happened to me....

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Oracle Reports Higher Profit on Surging Cloud Revenue

The software and cloud-computing company reported cloud revenue rose 47%, including a 92% increase in cloud infrastructure revenue....

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The Debate-Loving German Telecom Exec Plotting a Blockbuster Merger

Timotheus Höttges transformed Deutsche Telekom by doubling down on America’s maverick brand, T-Mobile. His final test is a $300 billion-plus deal....

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Opinion | A ‘Millionaire’s Tax’ Is a Tax on Main Street

Wealth taxes like Hawaii’s disproportionately fall on small-business owners....

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Opinion | Jill Biden’s Memoir Fails to Convince Readers

The former first lady’s explanations for Joe Biden’s decline raise more questions than they answer....

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Why This Hospitality Mogul Thinks Intellectual Property Is King

Miami nightlife magnate and Groot Hospitality founder David Grutman reflects on gaining wealth and the power of IP....

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U.S. Crude Oil Inventories Fall for Seventh Straight Week

Commercial crude oil stocks excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 7.2 million barrels in the week ended June 5. They were expected to have fallen by 2.9 million barrels, according to a Wal...

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Bill Gates Tells Congress His Affairs Had Nothing to Do With Epstein

Billionaire says ‘I have never victimized anyone’ and it was a mistake to ever meet with Jeffrey Epstein...

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DCC Says It Intends to Accept Revised $7.6 Billion KKR Consortium Offer Proposal

DCC said it would recommend an improved takeover offer from private-equity firms KKR and Energy Capital Partners to shareholders if a formal offer is made....

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Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen Targets Sharp Rise in Revenue

The Norwegian defense group aims to more than quadruple its revenue in the coming years, buoyed by the development of new products and the continued rise in global military spending....

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Novelis, Top Aluminum Supplier to Ford, to Restart Plant After Fires

Two fires at the upstate New York facility last year proved extremely disruptive to the auto industry....

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EU’s Budget Watchdog Criticizes Energy-Spending Rule Change

A move to exempt government spending on reducing the use of fossil fuels from the bloc’s budget rules could be misused and repeat mistakes from the 2022 energy shock....

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Chewy Cuts FY Outlook Despite Higher Sales, Profit

The online pet-supplies retailer said it now expects net sales to come in between $13.4 billion and $13.55 billion this year, down from a prior forecast of $13.6 billion to $13.75 billion....

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19 Things to Know About Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s President

Elon Musk’s trusted lieutenant has a ritual for launch days and put a Starlink on the roof of her car....

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Oil Prices Set to Keep Rising Even After Iran Conflict Ends, Shell Boss Says

Upside pressure on prices will be a story for the longer term, Wael Sawan said at the WSJ Leadership Institute CEO Summit on Wednesday. “All the easy oil and gas has been found.”...

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Now Is a Good Time to Buy Into America’s Mega Utility Merger

The largest U.S. utility is about to buy Dominion Energy, a big peer with data-center exposure. What’s not to like?...

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America’s Four-Year Trucking Slump Is Finally Over

Freight rates are climbing after hundreds of thousands of carriers were driven out of the industry by low earnings, new regulations....

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WH Smith Shares Hit 16-Year Low After Guidance Cut, Fundraising

Shares fell 17% after the retailer launched a capital raising to boost its balance sheet following a downturn in conditions due to the Middle East war....

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Anti-Nvidia Data Center Startup Is Valued at $1.55 Billion in New Funding Round

TensorWave will use a fresh $350 million to fill more data centers with chips from AMD, an investor....

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U.K. Needs to Take More Risks to Retain Startups, Business Secretary Says

The government has taken stakes in startups like Kraken, Wayve and Oxford Quantum Circuits in recent weeks, in a bid to prevent them from moving out of the country to look for funding....

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Volvo Says Current Trading Remains Solid as it Moves to Make Earnings More Resilient

At the same time, it cautioned that cost inflation is trending upwards, with the CFO saying the company was starting to see an impact on raw material costs from the Middle East conflict....

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Autonomous-Truck Company Einride to Begin Trading on Nasdaq

The Swedish company’s trading debut comes after it completed a merger with a blank-check firm in a transaction that valued Einride’s equity at $1.35 billion before proceeds from the deal....

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UniCredit Says Commerzbank Stake Increased to 37.7% After Latest Acceptances

The Italian bank also holds financial contracts that give it exposure to an additional 16.4% stake in Commerzbank, according to a regulatory filing, with one week to go for the offer period....

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Sigma Healthcare in Preliminary Talks to Buy U.K.’s Boots

Australia’s Sigma Healthcare said it is involved in early discussions about a potential acquisition of U.K. drugstore chain Boots....

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Musk Looks to an Army of Loyalists to Help Make Him a Trillionaire

The SpaceX IPO is expected to set records Friday and mark a new pinnacle in Wall Street’s retail revolution....

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Casey’s General Stores Results Helped by Pizza Sales

The Ankeny, Iowa company pointed to strong sales of whole pizzas as well as appetizers and sides, in addition to strength in nonalcoholic beverages....

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Los Angeles Stadium Workers Reach Deal to Head Off World Cup Strike

The union said the lowest-paid workers at SoFi Stadium would get a big pay raise to $40 an hour....

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Cracker Barrel Posts Surprise Profit, Lifts Outlook for Year

The restaurant chain lifted its full-year outlook after reporting a higher profit in the fiscal third quarter, defying investor expectations of a loss....

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Opinion | CBS and the Cost of Not Apologizing

Scott Pelley wanted to stay; the network wanted him to stay. The rest was snafu....

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Being Honest About Low Inventory Can Pay Off for Online Retailers

Alerting shoppers that an item might be out of stock leads to more customer loyalty and higher spending per order, according to a study....

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The Public Now Backs Nuclear Energy. What Will It Take to Make It Happen?

Interest has accelerated as the tech industry touts the technology as a solution to the electricity demands of artificial intelligence....

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Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on A.P. Moller-Maersk, Lufthansa and more in the latest Market Talks covering Auto and Transport....

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SpaceX Employees Get a Crash Course in How the Rich Handle Money

The life-altering fortunes will require navigating if and when to sell shares, and the strategic alternatives....

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Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone Launch $35 Billion AI Infrastructure Platform

Broadcom said it will partner with Apollo Global Management and Blackstone’s credit and insurance business to launch a platform backed by an initial $35 billion to finance artificial-intelligence infr...

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BP Names Heads of Newly-Created Segments as Part of Simplification Push

Gordon Birrell will head its upstream division and Richard Harding was named interim head of downstream as BP implements a restructure to simplify operations and speed decision-making....

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J.M. Smucker Expects Sales to Fall This Year

J.M. Smucker guided for sales to decline in the coming year as it leans away from price increases, looking instead to drive volume growth in key areas and improve profitability....

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Chrysler Recalls Vehicles Whose Power Steering Wiring May Overheat, Catch Fire

The recall covers roughly 1.08 million vehicles, including Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Gladiator models manufactured between 2021 and 2025....

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U.S. Small-Business Confidence Ticked Down in May

The National Federation of Independent Business said that its small-business optimism index fell 0.6 points to 95.3 in May, remaining below its 52-year average of 98.0....

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A Rush to Stockpile Oil Will Keep Prices Higher for Longer

Countries will build larger emergency crude reserves to reduce their vulnerability to future energy shocks....

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GSK to Buy Nuvalent for $10.6 Billion in Oncology Push

The acquisition is set to give GSK ownership of three drug candidates for lung cancer, two of which are under FDA review for approval this year....

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A New Front Is Opening in the Fight to Break China’s Rare-Earth Dominance

Brazil holds the world’s second-largest reserves and wants to become a processor of critical minerals—but it refuses to choose sides between Washington and Beijing....

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University Endowments Are About to Strike It Big on the SpaceX IPO

Some schools have a tenth or more of their endowments in Elon Musk’s rocket company....

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OpenAI Files for IPO

Plus, the Trump administration’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee is declared unlawful, and private racetracks zoom into view....

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Opinion | High-Tech Seeks Skilled Tradesmen

A new program will pay workers as they train and promise them jobs building new digital infrastructure....

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Opinion | Delcy Rodríguez Invades My Home

This loss is personal, but it should also be a warning to investors....

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Meta Launches ‘Workforce Academy’ to Train Workers to Build Data Centers

The five-week program, which is free of charge and guarantees a job, follows a recent layoff of 8,000 employees....

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Perrigo CEO Ousted Over Personal Conduct

Perrigo Chief Executive Patrick Lockwood-Taylor has resigned after the board found his personal conduct had violated company code....

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Vail Resorts Cuts Outlook Again as Weather Weighs on Visits

The ski-resort operator said weather conditions remained extremely unfavorable during the recent quarter, weighing on visits and revenue, particularly at Vail’s resorts in the Rockies....

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