Business

Inflation is slowing, a fresh reading of the Federal Reserve’s preferred index showed, but costs continue to climb rapidly after stripping out volatile food and fuel — which shows that price pressures...

Making It Work is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times.Hakki Akdeniz, the founder of the Champion Pizza chain in New York City, speaks freely about his past....

Stew Leonard Sr., a folkloric retailer who expanded his namesake stores into merchandising meccas replete with petting zoos and mechanical singing farm animals, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He...

Why It Matters: The digital ad slump is bouncing back, but not for everyone.Falling demand for Google’s search ads and Facebook’s display ads has stabilized, with the digital ad giants each reporting...

WASHINGTON — Pranksters posing as Ukraine’s president tricked Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, into a conversation in January about the U.S. and global economy, based on video clips covered on...

In the latest official scrutiny of a prominent American business in China, the authorities visited the Shanghai offices of the U.S. management consulting firm Bain & Company this month to question its...

British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to buy the gaming giant Activision Blizzard, threatening to kill the deal entirely. The ruling raises a broader question: How often do...

On Monday, I was having a conversation with Pavithra Suryanarayan, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, about what fuels far-right populism, when she suddenly stopped, midsentence, and gasped.She had...

In the podcast, Mr. Pill was asked to untangle how much current inflationary pressures were transitory or durable. Britain had been hit by a series of shocks — the pandemic, higher energy...

British American Tobacco has agreed to pay more than $635 million as a penalty for selling cigarettes to North Korea through an intermediary in Singapore, in violation of American sanctions.A small portion...