Corporate profits have been bolstered by higher prices even as some of the costs of doing business have fallen in recent months.
Category: Corporations
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Who Would Want to Be a C.E.O.?
The challenges facing business leaders feel particularly acute right now. This week, DealBook delved into four of them.
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In China, the Police Came for the Consultants. Now the C.E.O.s Are Alarmed.
Foreign businesses, a top Chinese official said in March, “are not foreigners, but family.” Then came a crackdown on firms with foreign ties.
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U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech
Chiplets, a way to design chips for higher performance, has become a key prong of U.S. industrial policy. But pushing for more of this activity domestically is challenging.
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A Widow Said Her Husband Was Left in a Drinks Cooler After Dying on a Cruise
Marilyn Jones accused Celebrity Cruises in a lawsuit of storing her husband’s body in a cooler rather than the ship’s morgue and allowing it to become “horrifically decomposed.”
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Abortion Pill Maker Sues F.D.A. to Protect Drug if a Court Orders It Off the Market
The suit by GenBioPro, the generic maker of mifepristone, is the latest strand in the intense legal battle over abortion pills.
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Dour Earnings Loom Over Wall St. as a Slowing Economy Bites
The outlook for corporate profits has swiftly deteriorated, with inflation still fast and a banking scare prompting some investor caution.
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Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94
His prediction in the 1960s about rapid advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech.
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Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94
His prediction in the 1960s about exponential advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech.
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U.S. Approves a Merger Between Two Big North American Railroads
Canadian Pacific’s acquisition of Kansas City Southern will create a railroad that links Canada, the United States and Mexico.