Wall Street Journal

California’s AI Dominance Fuels $366 Billion Venture Capital Bonanza

California’s AI Dominance Fuels $366 Billion Venture Capital Bonanza

California-based companies have announced a record haul in startup funding, despite billionaire-tax fears....

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JD Sports Shares Tumble After Profit Guidance Cut

JD Sports Shares Tumble After Profit Guidance Cut

The sport and fashion retailer cut its full-year profit guidance as second-quarter sales fell due to pricing pressure an...

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Danone’s $1.2 Billion Huel Deal Gets U.K. Competition Clearance

Danone’s $1.2 Billion Huel Deal Gets U.K. Competition Clearance

The Competition and Markets Authority said it wouldn’t refer the merger to a more in-depth investigation after it launch...

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Asia’s Businesses Struggle to Shake Off the Sway of Their Founding Families

Asia’s Businesses Struggle to Shake Off the Sway of Their Founding Families

A leadership shake-up at Tata Sons has highlighted the challenges facing India’s family-founded behemoths....

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CK Hutchison Files Arbitration Against Panama, Seeking $1.5 Billion in Damages

CK Hutchison Files Arbitration Against Panama, Seeking $1.5 Billion in Damages

The Hong Kong conglomerate has launched international arbitration proceedings against Panama, escalating a dispute over ...

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With Tourism Stalled, Hawaii Chases the Startup Wave

With Tourism Stalled, Hawaii Chases the Startup Wave

State officials believe a handful of high-tech enterprises can seed new industries and keep skilled workers from fleeing...

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Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI

Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI

The flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the sale of the defunct ai...

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Carlyle Joins $1 Billion Investment Round in Missile Startup Castelion

Carlyle Joins $1 Billion Investment Round in Missile Startup Castelion

The funding round, which also includes JPMorgan Chase and Andreessen Horowitz, values the hypersonic munitions maker at ...

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Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk

Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on BRP’s tariff headwinds, Cargojet’s strategy and more in the latest Market Talks covering the auto and tr...

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Coty Looks to Finish Strategic Review, Guides for First-Quarter Sales Decline

Coty Looks to Finish Strategic Review, Guides for First-Quarter Sales Decline

The company guided for revenue to decline by a low- to mid-single-digit percentage as consumers become increasingly sele...

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Women at L3Harris Shared Concerns About CEO’s Behavior Years Before Ouster

Women at L3Harris Shared Concerns About CEO’s Behavior Years Before Ouster

Chris Kubasik was ousted after an investigation into conduct with a subordinate. Years earlier, another employee had mad...

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Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk

Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on BlueScope Steel, BHP, Evolution Mining and more in the latest Market Talks covering basic materials....

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FTC Warns Retailers on Using Private Consumer Data to Raise Prices

FTC Warns Retailers on Using Private Consumer Data to Raise Prices

Agency says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and may face lawsuits if they don’t....

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U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Post Weekly Increase

U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Post Weekly Increase

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories rose by 4.4 million barrels last week in a third consecutive build, according to t...

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The Meal-Kit Industry Is in Disarray After a Major Supplier Went Bust

The Meal-Kit Industry Is in Disarray After a Major Supplier Went Bust

Customers are demanding refunds and stopping orders over almost-empty boxes and missing ingredients from Blue Apron and ...

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Target Raises Fiscal-Year Forecast Again as Turnaround Gains Traction With Consumers

Target Raises Fiscal-Year Forecast Again as Turnaround Gains Traction With Consumers

On the heels of a positive quarter, the retailer now expects sales growth of about 5% this fiscal year....

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Vine-Inspired Divine Revives Six-Second Loops—and Bans AI

Vine-Inspired Divine Revives Six-Second Loops—and Bans AI

Plus, a new Gallup survey finds AI ad skepticism hits hardest among Gen Z....

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TJX Raises Full-Year Targets as Cost-Conscious Shoppers Flocks to Discount Chains

TJX Raises Full-Year Targets as Cost-Conscious Shoppers Flocks to Discount Chains

TJX raised its full-year profit outlook after reporting higher second-quarter sales and earnings, as more budget-leery s...

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Amazon to Expand Drone Delivery Service to Nearly 500 Locales

Amazon to Expand Drone Delivery Service to Nearly 500 Locales

The e-commerce giant to launch Prime Air in metro areas including Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Syracuse, N.Y., and Boise...

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Analog Devices Profit, Revenue Up on Surging AI Data Center Demand

Analog Devices Profit, Revenue Up on Surging AI Data Center Demand

The semiconductor company reported higher profit and revenue in its third quarter driven by accelerating demand for data...

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Lowe’s Lowers Full-Year Targets as Homeowners Scale Back DIY Projects

Lowe’s Lowers Full-Year Targets as Homeowners Scale Back DIY Projects

Lowe’s trimmed its full-year sales and profit targets, signaling that price-conscious homeowners are delaying major reno...

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The Morning Risk Report: Pivotal Child Safety Trial That Could Change Instagram Starts in California

The Morning Risk Report: Pivotal Child Safety Trial That Could Change Instagram Starts in California

Plus: Disney sues FCC over license review, and Europe’s rivers are drying up, threatening its economy....

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Leadership Lessons from Lumen Technologies’ CFO

Leadership Lessons from Lumen Technologies’ CFO

The CMO-CRO-CTO trio is an important C-suite partnership to manage the current tech and AI landscape, Lumen finance chie...

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U.S. Refiners Capitalize as Buyers Vie for Shrinking Diesel Supply

U.S. Refiners Capitalize as Buyers Vie for Shrinking Diesel Supply

Plus: New law aims to speed output of modular and manufactured homes; attacks mount on Strait of Hormuz shipping....

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Estee Lauder Narrows Loss as Sales Climb

Estee Lauder Narrows Loss as Sales Climb

The Estee Lauder Companies narrowed its fiscal fourth-quarter loss on higher sales, as the company’s turnaround continue...

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Chinese Humanoid Robot Leader Soars in Market Debut Despite U.S. Ban

Chinese Humanoid Robot Leader Soars in Market Debut Despite U.S. Ban

Unitree Robotics is the first humanoid maker to list in mainland China....

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Why Wall Street Thinks the Brutal Bond Rout Is Just Getting Started

Why Wall Street Thinks the Brutal Bond Rout Is Just Getting Started

Plus, Big Food fights to win over not-so-hungry GLP-1 users, and LinkedIn accidentally becomes a dating site....

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Oil Rises on Persistent Hormuz Uncertainty

Oil Rises on Persistent Hormuz Uncertainty

Oil prices rose for a fourth day as talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the Iran war stalled....

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Carlsberg Lifts Lower End of Guidance, Books Strong Growth in Soft Drinks, Alcohol-Free Brews

Carlsberg Lifts Lower End of Guidance, Books Strong Growth in Soft Drinks, Alcohol-Free Brews

Soft drinks and other beverages delivered 7.8% growth, driven by gains in multiple markets, while beer volumes declined ...

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Hong Kong’s Exchange Operator Posts Record Quarter, Beats Estimates

Hong Kong’s Exchange Operator Posts Record Quarter, Beats Estimates

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing reported record profit and revenue for the second quarter as trading and listing acti...

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A Florida Billionaire Pays $40 Million for Ferrari EV Everyone Mocked

A Florida Billionaire Pays $40 Million for Ferrari EV Everyone Mocked

Philanthropist Herbert Wertheim paid a record price at auction for a Ferrari Luce sports car in the name of charity....

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The Cast-Iron Company That Has Been Controlled by the Same Family for 130 Years

The Cast-Iron Company That Has Been Controlled by the Same Family for 130 Years

In an era of public offerings and acquisitions, Lodge has remained in the grip of its founding patriarch’s descendants....

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Big Food Is Fighting to Tempt Taste Buds in the Era of Weight-Loss Drugs

Big Food Is Fighting to Tempt Taste Buds in the Era of Weight-Loss Drugs

With GLP-1s threatening billions in sales, packaged-food makers are testing ways to win over the not-so-hungry....

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JBS Proposes to Acquire Remaining Stake in Pilgrim’s Pride

JBS Proposes to Acquire Remaining Stake in Pilgrim’s Pride

JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, currently owns about 82% of Pilgrim’s Pride’s common stock....

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OpenAI’s Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth compared with Anthropic

OpenAI’s Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth compared with Anthropic

The ChatGPT-maker’s revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the th...

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Opinion | Disney Strikes Back Against the FCC

Opinion | Disney Strikes Back Against the FCC

ABC’s owner has a good case in its lawsuit against Brendan Carr’s harassment on free-speech grounds....

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Wall Street Sees No End in Sight to the Global Bond Selloff

Wall Street Sees No End in Sight to the Global Bond Selloff

Plus, Pennsylvania restricts data-center construction and ABC sues the FCC....

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Opinion | Democrats Can Learn From AOC

Opinion | Democrats Can Learn From AOC

Their party can win in 2028 by disowning its own shameful idiocies of the Trump era....

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