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Ant to Change How It Makes Loans With New Consumer-Finance Company

The Jack Ma-controlled mobile-payments company will hold a 50% stake in the new entity, with the rest held by six other shareholders.

AMC, BlackBerry, Sundial Growers: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today

Some meme stocks looked poised to fall alongside broader markets.

Jobless Claims Drop to Another Pandemic Low

Jobless claims have declined by more than 30% since late April, slipping below 400,000 last week for the first time since the pandemic.

The Strangest Place Model Winnie Harlow Has Left Her Phone

Model Winnie Harlow, 26, who debuts in July as a judge on the Amazon Prime Video show ‘Making the Cut,’ shares what’s on her phone.

Dad Gifts With Design Cred

Updated, less hackneyed ideas for giving the traditional Gs: golf, gear and gadgets

Meme Stocks Gyrate After AMC Files to Sell More Shares

Shares of AMC swung wildly in premarket trading before dropping 9%, after the movie-theater operator filed with regulators to sell more than 11 million shares.

Color-Blocking, the Summer Style Way

Bright primary colors and bold shapes burst onto the scene, inspired by the art of Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley and Barbara Hepworth.

Stock Futures Drop, Led by Retreat in Technology Stocks

The S&P 500 is hovering near its all-time high closing level on investors’ concerns about global supply chain problems bolstering inflation and weighing on the economic rebound.

Carbon Price Boom Attracts Investors to Emissions-Trading Market

Investors have piled into new carbon-credit-trading funds, helping make the upstart market one of the best performing commodities-related investments of the past year.

Democrats Strain to Unify on Proposal to Reduce Drug Prices

Congressional Democrats are ramping up efforts to reach a deal on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs, but face headwinds from internal disputes and pushback from the pharmaceutical industry.

Graduation 2021 Is Cheered on Lawns, Screens—and Everywhere in Between

Schools have followed a number of different scripts during the Covid-19 pandemic, and so do their graduations this year.

Tulsa Race Massacre Is Now an M.B.A. Case Study at Harvard

‘The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations’ asks Harvard Business School students to explore ways to reckon with the 1921 attack’s financial fallout, and to consider the role of business in addressing racial-justice ...

When Mental-Health Issues Get in the Way of Work

Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open is a public example of a private issue facing many companies.

Intrinsic Gathers $113 Million for Health and Wellness Acquisitions

Startup Intrinsic Brands Inc. has raised $113 million in equity and debt to buy and grow the sales of health-and-wellness goods sold online, adding to a spurt of venture investment in companies aggregating e-commerce produ...

DoorDash, Palantir CEOs Top Highest-Paid List for 2020

The meal deliverer’s Tony Xu and his counterpart at the data-analysis company received compensation far exceeding that of S&P 500 CEOs.

Exxon Mobil Activist Victory Isn’t Really All About Climate

Engine No. 1’s stunning victory against Exxon Mobil last week seems to be a victory for green causes, but climate is only the very tip of the iceberg.

Russian Miner Nordgold Targets $5 Billion London IPO

The company said it aims to list in London and Moscow in the coming weeks, seeking to capitalize on a renewed interest in commodity stocks and strengthening gold prices as a hedge against rising inflation.

Concerns Over Meat Supply Ebb as JBS Plants Reopen After Cyberattack

Production at JBS meat-processing plants in Australia is coming back online faster than authorities had expected after the ransomware attack on the company this week, the country’s agriculture minister said.

The Straightforward Economics of Vaccine Lotteries

The payouts made by lotteries for people vaccinated against Covid-19 are minimal when compared with the economic costs associated with current or future outbreaks.

Copper Boom Has Big Miners Picking Through Waste

Jetti Resources, an obscure mining business part-owned by members of the Pritzker and Walton families, is getting some new heavyweight investors: BHP and Freeport-McMoRan, two of the world’s biggest miners.