Warren E. Buffett has been at the forefront of American capitalism for decades as the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate he built into a…
Month: May 2025
The two largest U.S. oil companies reported their lowest first-quarter profits in years on Friday as they braced for the economic fallout from President Trump’s trade…
Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if razor-thin, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of England. The result…
While campaigning in Maine’s U.S. Senate primary in 1972, Robert Monks asked about a smell overnight that was so noxious his eyes teared up. That, Mr.…
Shanghai is banking on more international sporting events and concerts in the city this summer to revive spending to counter the blows to consumer confidence from…
Starting Friday, the Trump administration is shelving a nearly century-old tax loophole that saved companies from paying tens of billions of dollars in fees on cheap…
Kevin Warsh was sitting in the East Room of the White House when President Donald Trump took a beat to praise the former central banker. At…
The past several weeks might have been tumultuous or even existential for a lot of U.S. businesses caught up in trade wars, but they’ve been pretty…
Little warning signs are flashing across the economy. The big question is what to make of them. With consumers growing more pessimistic, households and global businesses alike are…
China has signaled that it is becoming more open to engaging in trade negotiations with the Trump administration, according to two blogs closely associated with China’s state apparatus,…