The jobless rate ticked up to 4.7% in December, with U.S. employers adding a lower-than-expected 156,000 positions, but wage growth pointed to a tightening labor market more than seven years after the expansion began. 176
Stocks, the dollar and bond yields rose after December data showed wage growth accelerated, helping the Dow industrials make another run at 20000.
Wells Fargo is planning to roll out a new retail-banking compensation structure next week in an attempt to fix what many believe was one cause of its sales-tactics scandal, people familiar with the matter said.
Apple said Chief Executive Tim Cook and other top leaders received less total compensation in 2016 as the company missed its revenue and profit goals for the year. 58
On Sept. 13, 2016, Denise Mueller set the women's land-speed record on a bicycle at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, hitting 147.7 mph. Photo: Scenic for The Wall Street Journal
At more than 140 mph, getting knocked off a bicycle is bad, potentially fatal. At such speed, pretty much everything is. It is also where Denise Mueller finds peace.
FBI Director Comey will join Director of National Intelligence Clapper and others in giving Trump a briefing on what agencies have concluded about alleged Russian hacking. 357
Outgoing Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in an interview that Russia has done nothing to help defeat ISIS in Syria and has a strategy of “explicitly thwarting the U.S.” 213
A Republican proposal aimed at cutting tax rates and keeping jobs in the U.S. risks whacking the earnings of big U.S. retailers by driving up the cost of imported clothes, furniture and other goods. 85
Sam’s Club Chief Executive Rosalind Brewer will leave the company next month. Her departure leaves no women or people of color with a CEO title at parent company Wal-Mart.
Despite the disastrous launch of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, the South Korean tech giant forecast its highest profit in more than three years.
Toyota Motor finds itself in the position of having to prove its worth as a job creator in the U.S. after a tweet by President-elect Donald Trump.
The distinction between independent financial advisers and Wall Street brokerages is blurring as big banks with brokerage outfits move to comply with new regulations and take back market share.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine agreed to pay $5 million to end a U.S. regulator’s lawsuit in the aftermath of the 2011 collapse of commodities brokerage MF Global Holdings Ltd. 76
China continued to squeeze the global market for the yuan, sending the cost of borrowing the currency in overseas markets soaring to a near-record high.
The retrial of a former bond trader in a securities-fraud case that provoked changes to Wall Street sales tactics began with the trader’s attorneys casting his techniques as no more manipulative or harmful than the fast-and-loose claims of a used-car salesman.
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Russia’s top general said his country would draw down its military presence in Syria, starting with a withdrawal of its warships from the eastern Mediterranean.
Lee Jae-myung, who favors reaching out to North Korea and confronting the U.S., has emerged as a serious contender to lead the country.
A Chinese attack submarine made an unprecedented stopover in Malaysia this week in a rare public display of China’s expanding undersea force and a further sign of power realignment in Southeast Asia.
India said its economic expansion could slow to 7.1% in the year ending March 31, though the estimate doesn’t reflect the full impact of the prime minister’s move to cancel almost 90% of the country’s cash.
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