Jan. 11, 2024 10:03 pm ET SYDNEY—Demand for Australian housing remains solid with the value and number of new loans climbing in November despite a record surge in mortgage interest rates over the last year-and-a-half. The value of new owner-occupier dwelling loan commitments rose 0.1% in November, while...
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 8:08 pm ET A U.S.-led coalition launched more than a dozen strikes on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen late Thursday, officials said, two days after the Yemeni rebel force defied an ultimatum to halt its attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea with a barrage of missiles and drones. Th...
Only the very best Broadway musicals normally get promoted to the big screen. There’s a reason for this: The in-person experience can be so dazzling, with the performers right in front of you, that showmanship can partly make up for mediocre writing. On the screen, though, there is no way to distract th...
On Wednesday, ESPN’s Pat McAfee said Aaron Rodgers wouldn’t appear on his show for the rest of the NFL season, a move that came after the star quarterback engulfed the show and the network in a weeklong controversy. A day later, Rodgers popped back on the show for a brief stint, so he could weigh ...
ANKENY, Iowa—Chris Christie’s exit from the Republican primary race gives Nikki Haley a clear chance to corner the market among GOP voters looking for an alternative to Donald Trump. But she still faces a tough challenge in a party that has grown increasingly reliant on working-class Republicans—a group...
Jan. 11, 2024 12:04 pm ET Chesapeake Energy’s merger with Southwestern Energy would create the largest natural-gas-focused producer in the U.S. It also creates an investment story that is so compelling that it comes with risks of its own. While merger-mania has swept up the energy sector since last year...
Researchers are trying to figure out what is making more young adults sick, and how to identify those at high risk. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt Source link
As former President Donald Trump ramps up his defenses against a series of criminal charges, a monthslong civil trial that could determine the future of his business empire has reached the crucial endgame. Lawyers for Trump and the state of New York will make closing arguments in a Manhattan courtroom T...
Amazon.com skipped a Wednesday deadline to offer remedies to the European Union over its $1.7 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot, after the bloc had raised concerns that the deal could stifle competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, made it...
Vinci renewed a revolving credit line with a bank syndicate, reducing its size to 6.5 billion euros ($7.13 billion) from EUR8.0 billion previously. The French construction group said late Wednesday that it decided to lower the amount of the credit line, which is aimed to fund its general requirements an...
Thomson Reuters is launching a $626 million cash bid for Pagero Group, beating a rival offer made by Vertex for the Swedish e-invoicing provider last month. Thomson Reuters said Thursday that it will begin a public tender offer to acquire all of Pagero’s shares on Friday. It intends to pay 40 Swedish kr...
Listen to article (2 minutes) MANAMA, Bahrain—U.S. and British warships shot down one of the largest barrages of missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels into the crucial Red Sea shipping lane, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his efforts to prevent the conflict in Gaza from e...
Updated Jan. 10, 2024 7:58 pm ET Listen to article (1 minute) Chris Christie dropped out of the GOP presidential nomination race, giving a potential boost to Nikki Haley even as he declined to endorse another contender in the contest to dislodge front-runner Donald Trump. The former New Jersey governor’...
Updated Jan. 10, 2024 5:59 pm ET WASHINGTON—Hunter Biden’s unexpected appearance at a House committee hearing set off a chaotic debate in the chamber over whether he should be held in contempt of Congress for ignoring subpoenas late last year and angered some Republican lawmakers who called his presence...
The Monday after the end of the NFL regular season is known as “Black Monday” because it’s when coaches across the sport suddenly find themselves out of a job. But this year, the firings have continued throughout the week with a stunning series of twists—while the biggest question of all remains unanswe...
NAIROBI, Kenya—Several people were captured and at least one killed Wednesday when a United Nations helicopter made a forced landing in a militant-controlled area of Somalia, according to reports from the Somali military viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Col. Deo Akiiki, the deputy spokesman for the Ug...
Jan. 10, 2024 11:58 am ET In the barren decade since Manchester United last won English soccer’s league championship, it has at various points put its fates in the hands of a German tactics sage, one of the club’s commercial directors, and former JPMorgan banker. They combined to bring the club exactly...
LONDON—The U.K. government has taken the rare step of proposing a law to overturn hundreds of convictions of people running post offices across Britain who were found guilty of theft or false accounting, an attempt to rectify a miscarriage of justice that has dragged on for decades. Between 1999 and 20...
Maruti Suzuki plans to invest 350 billion rupees ($4.21 billion) to build a new automobile production plant in India’s Gujarat state. The plant, expected to begin operations in fiscal year 2028-2029, will have an annual production capacity of 1 million units, the automaker said Wednesday. Maruti Suzuki...
Jan. 10, 2024 3:00 am ET|WSJ Pro After eight years of dating, 29-year-old Peter Henshall decided it was the right time to pop the question to his partner Tasha. He wanted to be subtle about his proposal. But, as he grappled with picking a ring, he felt he needed to ask her one very important ...
SEOUL—The elderly man who stabbed South Korea’s opposition leader last week did so wanting to prevent the progressive politician from winning the country’s next presidential election in three years, police said. Lee Jae-myung, head of South Korea’s Democratic Party, survived the Jan. 2 attack in the sou...
Updated Jan. 9, 2024 11:24 pm ET Armed gang members broke into a public television station in Ecuador during a live broadcast on Tuesday, threatening employees as the country reels from drug-related violence. Ecuador’s police chief, César Zapata, said Tuesday afternoon that officers had taken control of...
Updated Jan. 9, 2024 9:46 pm ET WASHINGTON—Congress may need to pass another short-term bill to avoid a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks, potentially forcing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) to break a vow he made to GOP colleagues swearing off such measures. Senate Minority Leader...
Listen to article (1 minute) Nearly every part of the U.S. was facing severe weather this week, with forecasters warning a second powerful storm was expected to hit over the weekend. A series of powerful weather systems brought blizzards, heavy rain and winds overnight. The impact was felt everywhere fr...
‘Self Reliance” is not quite a shaggy-dog story, but it is shaggy, unlikely and improbably likable. It might lick your hand if it were a labradoodle, though it does have an uneasy question: Would a 40-odd-year-old guy allow himself to become the prey of hunters—not for the $1 million payoff, exactly, bu...
WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers are considering curbing a troubled pandemic-era tax credit as they negotiate a bipartisan deal that could include about $100 billion in tax breaks for businesses and families. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) said Tuesday he wants to limit abuses of the e...
Updated Jan. 9, 2024 1:39 pm ET WASHINGTON—The legal reckoning for Donald Trump entered a critical stretch Tuesday as a Washington federal appeals court signaled it would reject the former president’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Trump w...
The Palestinian Authority’s ‘pay-for-slay’ program must end and the flow of U.S. dollars must stop. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt Source link
PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed France’s 34-year-old education minister to helm a new government as prime minister, tapping a popular but relatively untested official to breathe life into political ranks that badly fractured over the passage of a recent immigration bill. Gabriel Att...
The latest Market Talks covering Energy and Utilities. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0834 GMT – Metal prices are mixed as market watchers await U.S. CPI data this week for more clarity. Three-month copper is 0.2% lower at $8,417 a metric ton, while alumi...
Updated Jan. 9, 2024 5:42 am ET SEOUL—Dog meat will no longer be allowed in South Korea, capping a decadeslong campaign against a controversial practice that many locals have come to view with unease. With no dissenting vote, lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that will phase out the farming, slaughter an...
Updated Jan. 9, 2024 3:07 am ET GSK is buying biopharmaceutical company Aiolos Bio for up to $1.4 billion in a deal that expands its respiratory pipeline and follows a string of pharmaceutical majors buying fast-growing biotechs to restock their pipelines. The British pharmaceutical giant said Tuesday t...
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is further scaling back its ambitions in the gaming industry and is in talks to sell game titles to several prospective buyers. Chinese media LatePost reported Monday that ByteDance’s gaming unit Nuverse is negotiating to sell games to Tencent. A Bytedance spokesperson...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 11:36 pm ET HOUSTON—It had been so long since the University of Michigan won a national championship in football that it was reasonable to wonder if the Wolverines could still compete at the elite level of the sport. Then they were hit by a series of scandals that further tarnished...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 9:40 pm ET United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have discovered problems with Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets that they have inspected after a near-catastrophe on a flight Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. U.S. air safety officials grounded the Boeing jets and are still inv...
Samsung Electronics expects its fourth-quarter operating profit to fall 35% from a year earlier, missing market expectations and dampening hopes for an earnings recovery led by its semiconductor business. The world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions said in a preliminary earnin...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 5:37 pm ET Robin Hayes will step down as CEO of JetBlue Airways after about nine years at the helm, citing a doctor’s advice, as the company waits to find out whether a federal judge will block the merger with Spirit Airlines that he championed. Joanna Geraghty, a longtime JetBlue...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 3:33 pm ET AL ULA, Saudi Arabia—Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined a series of requirements for the future of the Gaza Strip after meetings Monday with leaders of key Gulf Arab states, during a diplomatic tour of the region aimed at preventing a broader war. Blinken said any...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 1:17 pm ET SINGAPORE—China has taken into custody an alleged British spy, the country’s national security agency said Monday, as Beijing steps up warnings over national security and the infiltration of foreign spies in the country. In a social-media post, China’s Ministry of State...
Listen to article (2 minutes) ABU DHABI—An Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon on Monday, ratcheting up cross-border tensions during a Middle East visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that seeks to prevent a broader war and discuss how the Gaza Strip will be gove...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 9:21 am ET A powerful rocket developed by a Boeing-and-Lockheed Martin-owned company blasted off for the first time early Monday, the vehicle’s inaugural flight after years of delays. Called Vulcan Centaur, the 202-foot-tall rocket lifted off under a trail of flames at 2:18 a.m. ET...
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 7:29 am ET A burning inferno on the runway, followed four days later by a midair emergency involving a gaping hole in the side of the plane, isn’t the way the airline industry wanted to start 2024. After a fraught 2023, in which safety specialists and regulators raised alarms about...
Jan. 8, 2024 5:00 am ET|WSJ Pro Many publicly traded clean-energy companies saw their stock prices drop last year as investors fretted about higher project-financing costs and persistent supply-chain bottlenecks. But Jehangir Vevaina, a managing partner in Brookfield’s renewable power and transition gro...
Pandora said that full-year performance was ahead of guidance after a solid profitability in the fourth quarter following a robust performance across the key period of Black Friday and Christmas. The Danish jeweler on Sunday said that organic growth for 2023 reached 8%, ahead of its guidance range of 5%...
A senior executive of China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group has been detained on suspicion of crimes, the latest blow to the company after a deal for a potential cash injection lapsed last week. Evergrande NEV said in a Hong Kong exchange filing Monday that Liu Yongzhuo, an executive director and vi...
Updated Jan. 7, 2024 11:14 pm ET “Oppenheimer” swept the 81st Golden Globes, winning five of its eight Globes nominations for its director Christopher Nolan, lead actor Cillian Murphy, supporting actor Robert Downey Jr., best original score and—the crown jewel—best motion picture drama. It’s the first...
Updated Jan. 7, 2024 6:47 pm ET WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal on Sunday setting a roughly $1.6 trillion federal spending level for the year, but the pact drew quick criticism from some conservatives and it remained unclear whether lawmakers would be able to quickly pass legi...
