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Opinion | The Battle of Hormuz Is Turning

The U.S. Navy opens the Strait to all but the Iranian regime’s oil exports....

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Opinion | Political Agitators Stalk Mitch McConnell at Home

One self-styled journalist describes the harassment as ‘an intelligence-gathering mission.’...

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Boeing Engineers Bless New Contract After Summer Showdown

Stung by a mechanics strike in 2024, the plane maker is trying to avoid a new work stoppage with its engineers and technicians....

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Nike Projects Sales Decline This Year After Lower First-Quarter Revenue

The company expects sales during the year to decline by a high-single-digit percentage after challenges in China persisted in the first quarter....

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Why Are Diesel Prices Soaring and What Would a U.S. Export Ban Do?

Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have blocked shipments from regions that normally supply almost a third of the world’s diesel exports....

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Disney Planning TV Restructuring as Streamlining Continues

The reorganization, the latest under CEO Josh D’Amaro, is expected to result in hundreds of layoffs and the consolidation of divisions....

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American Car Buyers Rediscover Sedans, Small SUVs as Gas Prices Bite

In the third quarter, overall sales stalled, with GM reporting a 5.5% overall decline....

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Barbie-Maker Mattel Draws Takeover Interest From Authentic Brands Group

The brand-licensing giant has made an approach for the toy maker, which has been dealing with a sliding stock and now a chief-executive transition, according to people familiar with the matter....

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Opinion | Cleaner Cars Are the Future

Consumers deserve the option that actually saves them money....

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Temasek-Backed Vertex Japan Invests in Digital Trading Cards Startup Heartbeats

Temasek-backed Vertex Ventures Japan has invested in Heartbeats, a Tokyo-based digital trading cards company, the latest in a series of bets aimed at turning Japanese startups into global unicorns....

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When Asking for a Donation at Checkout Can Backfire

A study finds that customers can be pressured—and less likely to shop there again...

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Opinion | Boulder Has No Business Making Foreign Policy

The Supreme Court takes up a lawsuit against oil companies that far exceeds legitimate local authority....

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General Motors Third-Quarter Vehicle Sales Fall 5.5%

Discontinued models and a diminished market for electric vehicles weighed on the automaker’s performance in the third quarter....

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Best Business Debt Consolidation Loans in October 2026

Business debt consolidation can improve your cash flow and repackage your obligations to potentially save you money....

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Ellison Asks CNN CEO to Stay After Paramount-Warner Deal Closes

Bari Weiss isn’t expected to have a role involving CNN at close of the deal, people familiar with Ellison’s thinking said....

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The 38-Year-Old Captain Who Fought Off Cockpit Attack on FlyDubai Flight

Smit Machchhar, who didn’t always want to be a pilot, was hailed for his heroism after being stabbed on Flight 1073....

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Move Over, Storytellers: The Marketing Engineers Are Here

Plus, why the former marketer taking the helm at Domino’s doesn’t take consumers at their word....

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Best Small-Business Loans in October 2026

We identified the best small-business lenders by evaluating their accessibility, affordability, flexibility and reputation....

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Keurig Dr Pepper Hires Kimberly-Clark President Torres to Helm Coffee Spinoff

Keurig Dr Pepper has hired Russ Torres as chief executive of its coffee spinoff, plucking the executive from Kimberly-Clark....

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Accenture Revenue Rises on Growth Across Geographies, Industries

The consulting company posted fourth-quarter profit of $1.99 billion, or $3.29 a share, compared with $1.41 billion, or $2.25 a share, a year earlier....

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The Massive Corporate Tax Bills That Hinge on Two Words; Levi Strauss Names New CFO

Also, Ford Motor’s profitable F-150 takes a hit....

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McCormick Posts Lower Profit on Higher Sales

The spice maker posted fiscal third quarter net income of $97.6 million, or 36 cents a share, compared with $225.5 million, or 84 cents a share, a year earlier....

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Supplier Issue Paused Ford F-150 Production, Hitting Wholesale Deliveries

Plus, Amazon signed a nuclear power deal with Constellation Energy, and U.S. GDP growth was stronger than expected in the second quarter....

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Global Dealmaking Cools in Third Quarter

EXCLUSIVE: Fragile artificial-intelligence sentiment and higher borrowing costs helped dampen merger-and-acquisition activity in the third quarter, but giant AI deals mean 2026 is still on track to be...

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Why Domino’s New CEO Says an Insider Is a Better Innovator

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All This Man Thinks About Is What He Can Shrink Next. It Made Him a Toy Tycoon.

From 3-inch Super Soakers to mini Rubik’s Cubes, Alan Dorfman is obsessed with turning classic products into tiny, working realities....

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Oil Rises as Supply Concerns Persist Despite Middle East Crude Exports Recovering to Prewar Levels

The benchmark contracts traded lower initially before rebounding as risks around regional shipping and the U.S.-Iran conflict continue to weigh....

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Arla Foods to Invest Millions to Tap Protein-Rich Dairy Demand, CEO Says

The Denmark dairy giant will invest more than €63 million, or about $71 million, to expand capacity at existing skyr and cottage cheese production sites in Germany and Sweden....

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Lynas Rare Earths to Buy Meteoric Resources in $672 Million Deal

The deal gives Lynas a foothold in Brazil’s growing rare-earths industry and comes amid a race to rebuild rare-earths production outside China....

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Apple’s Biggest Battleground for Foldable Phones Is China

Huawei and other Chinese competitors report higher demand for foldables after announcement of the iPhone Duo....

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U.S. Pressure Campaign Leaves Iranian Tankers Stranded in Asian Waters

Dozens of Iranian or Iranian-linked vessels are adrift, as the U.S. threatens sanctions for countries or companies coming to their assistance....

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Democratic Senators Challenge Trump Officials on Pentagon’s Venezuela Oil Deal

Ranking Senate Democrats on the foreign relations, energy, banking and armed services committees question the deal crafted by top Trump officials....

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Europe’s Luxury Carmakers Are Supersizing Their SUVs for Americans

BMW, Audi and Volvo are among the automakers trying to boost U.S. sales to offset weakness in Europe and China....

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The Next Frontier for Obesity Drugs Isn’t How Much Weight You Lose, but What Kind

Drugmakers are targeting muscle preservation and fat loss as they build the next generation of weight-loss medications....

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How Arc’teryx Turned Climbing Gear Into a Luxury Status Symbol

The upscale mountaineering brand grew from $500 million to $2 billion in revenue by expanding beyond climbers....

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Opinion | Passengers Defeat a Would-Be Hijacker

In the spirit of Flight 93, Israelis on the plane and their flydubai crew fought back....

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Tech CEOs Privately Questioned Amodei for Sounding AI Alarm Bells

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was among the executives at Tuesday’s White House event who called out the Anthropic leader for his warnings about the technology’s capabilities....

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Opinion | Gross Output Signals an Economic Surge

Business-to-business spending is booming, and solely looking at gross domestic product misses this....

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Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz Named Co-CEO at Paramount-Warner

He will be heavily involved in the day-to-day management as well as strategic planning and the integration of the combined businesses....

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Paramount Settlement of Antitrust Case Approved by Judge

The deal announced last week with 12 states, led by California, clears the way for the company’s $81-billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery....

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Congress Wants to Bring Federal Agencies to Heel Over Energy Projects

Lawmakers introduce aggressive legislation to accelerate an energy build-out....

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Micron Profit, Revenue Surge on Memory Demand

The semiconductor company had a fourth-quarter profit of $37.7 billion as its memory chips remained a hot commodity amid the build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure....

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‘Shop Different’ Review: The Genius of Retail

Apple stores struggled until the release of the iPod music player, which made even Windows users curious enough to wander inside....

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Opinion | How America Should Power the AI Revolution

Data centers could consume as much as 12% of the nation’s electricity by 2028....

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Walgreens Owner Nears Deal to Sell British Pharmacy Chain Boots

The private-equity firm Sycamore Partners is in talks with the billionaire Weston family about a deal valued at roughly $9 billion, including debt....

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Marketers Are Rebranding as ‘Engineers’ to Survive the AI Era

The industry that previously fell in love with job titles like “digital ninja” and “storyteller” has become fascinated with its latest newly minted function: the marketing engineer....

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Ford F-150 Sales to Drop This Quarter Over Supplier Issue

The automaker has been working to recover truck production after an aluminum supplier was knocked offline last year....

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U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Jump

Commercial crude oil stocks rose by 900,000 barrels last week. Analysts had expected crude stocks to fall by 200,000 barrels....

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German Union Warns of Potential Conflict With Volkswagen Over Wage Deals

The German automaker has been working on a broad cost-cutting plan throughout 2025 and 2026 following an agreement with its powerful unions that included 50,000 job cuts in Germany by 2030 and billion...

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