Spain’s professional women footballers plan to go on strike, escalating their demands for better wages after a scandal over the country’s football chief kissing a player highlighted gender inequality in the sport.
A measure of US factory activity shrank less in August than a month earlier in a hopeful sign that the malaise in manufacturing is no longer deepening.
Broadcom Inc., a supplier of chips to Apple Inc. and a broad swath of the tech industry, suffered its worst stock decline in four months after giving a disappointing forecast for the current period, signaling that demand remains sluggish for electronic components.
Legal and regulatory hurdles for people offering their homes for short-term rental on sites like Airbnb Inc. and Vrbo are upending the market for vacation properties.
Robinhood Markets Inc. bought back $605.7 million of company stock that had been controlled by Sam Bankman-Fried and was caught up in a contentious ownership fight.
Women led the US workforce expansion in August, accounting for a bulk of the employees added to payrolls and further bolstering their progress during the pandemic recovery.
Royal Bank of Canada’s purchase of the Canadian unit of HSBC Holdings Plc received the approval of the country’s antitrust body, which said the deal doesn’t violate competition law.
A rapid reversal in the shares of online-lending firm Upstart Holdings Inc. underscores the dangers for stocks swept up by AI fervor.
The Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet in Sochi, southern Russia, on Monday. The pair are expected to discuss reviving the Black Sea grain deal after Moscow abandoned the agreement – brokered a year earlier by Turkey and the UN – in July. Russian officials have said repeatedly that not enough’s been done to address their demands, and Moscow has bombarded Ukrainian grain infrastructure in the past month. Erdogan’s visit c
A cooling US job market gives the Federal Reserve room to pause interest-rate increases this month while keeping options open for another rate hike later in the year.
