Japan’s Rice Shortage Sets Off Auction of Emergency Stockpile
The results of a rare, closely watched auction in Japan that ended this week are about to be released. But there were no paintings or antique cars on the auction…
Why China Is Worried About Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico
Officials in Beijing are increasingly worried that President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico may be the start of a broad campaign to force developing countries around the world to choose between…
S&P 500 Dips Into Correction as Stock Market Sours on Trump
The world’s most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday, a drop that underscores how the two-year-long bull market is running out of steam in the early…
Mercedes’s Most Affordable Sedan Will Be Electric
Mercedes-Benz said on Thursday that the latest version of its least expensive sedan would be available first as an all-electric car and then as a hybrid. And the company will…
Trump Cuts Could Squeeze Small Farmers and Food Banks
At Happy Hollow Farm, a small, 16-acre operation in central Missouri, Liz Graznak grows a variety of vegetables, including organic carrots, Swiss chard, radishes and beets. Some of those vegetables…
China Cools on Musk: ‘Two Cars for the Price of One Tesla’
Tesla is getting crushed in China, its most important market outside the United States and one that it had dominated for years. When Liu Jie, 32, decided to buy an…
Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies.…
Fed Governor Michelle Bowman Is Trump’s Pick for Wall Street’s Top Cop
President Trump has tapped Michelle W. Bowman, a Federal Reserve governor, to be the next vice chair for supervision at the central bank, according to a White House official who…
Stocks Rise After Tumult, but Investors Remain Wary of Trade Tensions
Stocks rose on Wednesday after a tumultuous few days of trading, though the rally was choppy, as investors weighed lower-than-expected inflation data against concerns about President Trump’s tariff policies. The…
China’s Tariffs on U.S. Agricultural Products Take Effect
Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the latest escalation of a trade…