Godiva Names Former Burberry Executive as New CFO
Godiva Chocolatier has hired Virginie Costa as chief financial officer at the Brussels-based maker of chocolates and other confectioneries.
Sergio Marchionne, who engineered a merger of the auto industry’s weakest companies—Fiat and Chrysler—and turned the combination into a profit generator, died at the age of 66.
U.S. stocks surged in the final half-hour of trading after President Trump secured some concessions from the EU to avoid an escalation in trade tensions.
The Trump administration announced plans to extend up to $12 billion in aid to farmers to ease concerns over trade disputes.
Many U.S. manufacturers are shrugging off concerns over tariffs and trade tensions as strong demand at home and abroad is yielding stronger-than-expected profit.
When European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker left for Washington to meet with President Trump, his mission was to try to dissuade the American president from escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and EU. Then Mr. Trump started tweeting.
The world’s largest companies are squeezing their suppliers by taking months to pay their bills, and big investors are trying to profit from that tension.
The IRS won a court case being closely watched by tech companies, as an appeals court upheld a regulation governing how corporations divide expenses between their domestic and foreign operations.
Facebook’s top lawyer, who led the company’s investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving the company at the end of the year.
American, Delta and United joined other carriers in changing the way they describe Taiwan—but stopped short of expressly referring to the self-governing island as part of China.
The pizza-chain board’s recent move to sever formal ties with John Schnatter was the culmination of a relationship that had been deteriorating for months over issues including marketing, sales and who exactly was running the show.
President says broadcaster’s $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media would have created ‘much needed conservative voice.’
Lululemon Athletica Inc. has appointed Calvin McDonald to serve as its next chief executive officer, tapping a top Sephora executive to lead the athletic-wear maker.
The #MeToo movement has contributed to sudden CEO turnover and boards need to be prepared, despite some negative aspects of having successors waiting in the wings.
New Jersey’s corporate tax breaks, designed to lure and keep companies in one of the country’s highest-taxed states, are sold for cash more often than they are used to lower tax bills.
The U.S. remained by far the largest driver of global current-account imbalances in 2017, running the world’s largest deficit and adopting policies likely to increase its imbalances in coming years.
China is letting the yuan slide primarily to combat a slackening economy, as the government rolls out more pro-growth measures amid an intensifying trade feud with the U.S.
Wall Street money managers are having problems hanging onto insurance companies as customers.
Chinese real-estate investors, facing pressure from Beijing, are reversing a yearslong buying spree in the U.S. where they often paid record prices for marquee properties like New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel.