Business

When oil prices fall, many costs for industry and agriculture, including chemicals and fertilizer, generally follow. And shipping becomes more economical. But when they rise sharply, as they did in 2008 and...

Adam Neumann is starting a new company called Flow, focused on the residential real estate market.Credit...Peter Prato for The New York TimesAdam Neumann is back.The founder of WeWork, whose spectacular rise and...

TOKYO — Restaurants are full. Malls are teeming. People are traveling. And Japan’s economy has begun to grow again as consumers, fatigued from more than two years of the pandemic, moved away...

The authorities in the United Kingdom said on Sunday that they were investigating an online threat against the author J.K. Rowling after she offered support on social media to Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was attacked last week at...

Young entrepreneurs from all over the world are becoming increasingly frequent in their capacity to capture the global market with new creative ideas and concepts. In Italy, Mauro Settimo Carini is a...

TikTok’s design makes it a breeding ground for misinformation, the researchers found. They wrote that videos could easily be manipulated and republished on the platform and showcased alongside stolen or original content....

What’s Up? (Aug. 7-13)Prices Cool a BitAfter months of prices that climbed higher and higher without any indication of letting up, last month brought some relief. New inflation data on Wednesday showed...

Over the past week, life at the Chautauqua Institution continued much as it had for 148 summers.Adults wiled away days attending church, playing badminton, taking pottery classes and listening to music on...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie spent years in hiding after the leadership of Iran called for his death following the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses.” But in recent years, declaring...

The stock market is set to notch the year’s best stretch of gains, as investors take comfort from early signals that inflation is slowing down and the economy is holding up.Futures for...