The mood at Milken As dealmakers descended on the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this week for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference, they were laser-focused on one type of deal: trade deals. The threat of an intensifying trade war cast a shadow over the event, Lauren Hirsch reports. Many business giants in attendance…
The British government made faster economic growth its No. 1 mission. But efforts to kick-start it have been repeatedly knocked off course by a global economy lurching from one crisis to another. On Thursday, British officials appeared to secure a win. The country is set to announce some form of trade deal with the United…
Men dominate the top of the podcasting charts. As listeners, they slightly outnumber women, too. “Brocasters” and the “manosphere” have even become a media obsession, and for good reason. During the election, conservatives successfully tapped into a world of dude-driven content to reach disengaged voters. But there has been a surge of podcasts made by…
A’ja Wilson, a center for the Las Vegas Aces, is widely acknowledged as the best player in the Women’s National Basketball Association. She is something like the league’s on-court answer to LeBron James or Michael Jordan. “I don’t shy away from having conversations with her about being the greatest to ever play,” said Becky Hammon,…
The New York Times Company said on Wednesday that it added 250,000 digital-only subscribers in the last quarter, and that digital subscription revenue during the period jumped more than 14 percent. Those results helped drive adjusted operating profit 21.9 percent higher from a year earlier, to $92.7 million in the quarter. Total revenue rose 7.1…
Even as India was gearing up to use its military to strike at Pakistan this week, calling it revenge for a terrorist strike in Kashmir last month, the government was pursuing other forms of power projection as well: bloodless and more refined, and mostly aimed at Pakistan’s economic vulnerability. On Friday, May 9, the executive…
A year ago, the world’s biggest automaker was on a tear. American consumers were snapping up Toyota Motor’s hybrids, and a weak yen inflated the value of the company’s earnings. That May, Toyota reported the highest annual profit ever recorded by a Japanese firm. On Thursday, Toyota presented a significantly more somber outlook, projecting that…
There has been a mantra spreading among weary corporate executives who are becoming resigned to President Trump’s tariffs while still hoping to avoid the worst of their effects: Ten percent is the new zero. The statement refers to the 10 percent tariff that Mr. Trump put in place on most U.S. imports one month ago….
President Trump’s desire to “make Hollywood great again” by wielding his preferred economic weapon — tariffs — has sent a shiver through Britain’s film industry. British producers, camera workers, costume designers and other film crew woke up Monday to Mr. Trump’s message that he wanted to impose 100 percent tariffs on films made in “foreign…
As central bankers weigh the possibility of President Trump’s tariffs reigniting inflation, major companies are foreshadowing price increases and warning that shoppers are tightening their wallets. Executives at several companies that sell popular consumer products, like toys and wet wipes, this week pointed to signs of a pullback in spending. The comments came against a…
