Business

Growing up in a working-class family in small-town Oregon, Bing Newcomb would have probably been destined for work in the region’s sawmills or lumberyards after high school except for one thing: He...

Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who claimed the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer, a proposal that...

Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old start-up founder who was sued by JPMorgan Chase in December, now has even bigger problems.The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York charged her with wire,...

Despite federal and state programs to convert corn into ethanol and soybeans into biodiesel to fuel cars and trucks, the United States has never before regarded farming as a primary energy producer.That...

When top Chinese officials held receptions for dozens of American and European business executives at back-to-back annual economic forums last week, the intended message was clear: China was open for business.But by...

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday ordered Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing machines, to divest Grail, a cancer-test developer.The move by the F.T.C. is the latest development in a case seen...

Oil prices surged on Monday and U.S. officials voiced their displeasure a day after OPEC members announced substantial cuts in production, a move that reaffirmed Saudi Arabia, the group’s leader, as a...

The tens of thousands of fans who crowded into SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles for WrestleMania this weekend got to watch the wrestling icon John Cena be hurled to the canvas by...

Millions of workers, employers, square feet of real estate and dollars of downtown economic retail are wrapped up in the question of how many people are working from home — yet there...

“I really am surprised,” said Tom Kloza, the global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service. Mr. Kloza said he expected that the Brent global oil price benchmark, which...