Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flocked to Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday to hear from CEO Warren Buffett and other Berkshire executives. For about 5 hours, Buffett took questions on Berkshire’s many businesses, investing and life in general.

The meeting included a video tribute to Buffett’s longtime partner and Berkshire vice-chairman ...Read more

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has shaved more than four months off her prison sentence, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Holmes, 40, was sentenced to 11 years and three months for defrauding investors in her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup. She began serving time at federal prison camp Bryan in Texas on May 30 last year...Read more

Switching jobs typically makes workers happier. Now, it’s more likely to leave them more miserable than before.

People who left a job for a new one reported being less satisfied at work than those who stayed put, according to a survey from the Conference Board, a sharp reversal from their sentiments just a year earlier. In 2022, those who ...Read more

An activist investor campaign to gain control of Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern has won some support from unions and others as a crucial Thursday shareholder vote approaches.

Ancora Holdings Group, the activist investor firm, wants to replace a majority of Norfolk Southern’s board members and its CEO, Alan Shaw. Ancora also wants former UPS ...Read more

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised the strength of the U.S. economy but warned its current level of deficit spending was not sustainable and could crimp U.S. and global growth if it's not brought under control, in remarks Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference.

Servicing the U.S debt — now ...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened a new investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after Boeing admitted that inspection records on work at the wing-to-body join were falsified at the jet’s final assembly site in South Carolina.

Boeing informed the FAA in April that on ...Read more

In recent years, the company Free2move set up free-floating car rental operations in such major American cities as Denver, Portland, Oregon, and Columbus, Ohio.

Like scooter rentals but for cars, the vehicles were spread out around each city, and drivers could book them from their phones at a moment's notice for a few minutes or a few days. The...Read more

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission warned Robinhood Markets Inc. that it faces an enforcement action over its crypto business — the latest sign that the regulator isn’t letting up on its years-long crackdown on digital assets.

Robinhood, which is best known for stock trading, said on Monday that the SEC’s enforcement staff had ...Read more

Steward Health Care System LLC filed for bankruptcy early Monday after a period of mounting financial challenges and government scrutiny over the impact of its hospital closures on patients.

The Dallas-based firm is finalizing a rescue loan with landlord Medical Properties Trust Inc., according to the filing. It sought Chapter 11 protection in...Read more

More than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes aren’t coming from genuine users, according to a new metric co-developed by Visa Inc., suggesting such crypto tokens may be far away from becoming a commonly used means of payment.

The dashboard from Visa and Allium Labs is designed to strip out transactions initiated by bots and large-scale ...Read more

Passengers on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max plane that lost a panel midflight are accusing the airplane manufacturer of fraud, according to new filings in a civil lawsuit stemming from the Jan. 5 incident over Portland, Oregon.

Those passengers allege Boeing defrauded the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Justice and the ...Read more

As opposition to Israel’s Gaza war intensifies, so too has the attention on Boeing’s longstanding connection with Israel and the Israeli armed services’ use of Boeing weapons.

On campuses across the U.S., including this week’s encampment at the University of Washington, and outside Boeing’s Virginia headquarters, protesters have ...Read more

After two consecutive quarters of declines, the number of zero-emission vehicles sold in California ticked up slightly in the first three months of this year.

According to data compiled by the California Energy Commission, the combined number of battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles came to 102,507 in the ...Read more

Around 5,000 people work at RDU1, Amazon’s sprawling four-floor fulfillment center in the Wake County town of Garner. A few clock in harboring covert intentions.

Ahead of May Day this week, I checked in with the Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, or C.A.U.S.E., which launched in early 2022 to unionize the facility’s ...Read more

Time is running out for Paramount Global and Skydance Media to reach a deal combining their entertainment empires within the 30-day exclusive negotiating window that closes Friday, and it appears likely that the week will pass without an agreement on a transaction.

Paramount, controlled by Shari Redstone, and Skydance, helmed by film producer ...Read more

It's getting easier to track down a Blizzard in Beijing.

Dairy Queen opened 450 new locations around the world last year — and 300 of them were in China.

"China continues to be our fastest-growing market," said Troy Bader, CEO of Bloomington-based International Dairy Queen. "International plays a really, really important part of our future."...Read more

Once attracting great numbers of sales and plenty of investment from global automakers, China is now increasingly being dominated by its own domestic manufacturers — leaving foreign rivals there mostly on the outside looking in.

General Motors Co. is losing money in China. Ford Motor Co. isn’t spending on capital expenditures there. Tesla ...Read more

Elon Musk may not like to talk about this, but Tesla Inc. probably wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest automakers today if not for a $465 million U.S. government loan at a make-or-break phase in the company’s development. Tesla went on to repay the loan nine years early on the way to briefly having a market value of more than $1 ...Read more