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06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
Hoping to Land Next Summer's $50,000 Internships? Too Late
Elite financial firms are recruiting earlier and paying handsomely for prospective talent By Callum Borchers The school year is barely a month old, but for college students hoping to land a primo internship next summer...
06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
The Sunday Scaries Are Real
As workloads mount, people struggle to tame the pre-Monday dread spiral By Ray A. Smith Jill Davis's official work week starts Monday morning. Unofficially, it kicks off every Sunday afternoon when, like clockwork, anx...
06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
Heard on the Street: Home Builders and Sellers Vie for Buyers
Competition is heating up, which will force companies like Lennar and KB Home to beef up incentives By Carol Ryan Ready to be realistic about the value of your home now that mortgage rates are above 7%? Builders won't...
06:32 WSJ 3 mins read
Fain Claims Victory in UAW Election Rout
Union's fiery leader wins decisive victory and places allies in key positions By Christopher Otts United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and his allies on Friday claimed an easy victory in the union's election, cemen...
06:32 WSJ 3 mins read
Delta CEO Says It's Prepared for Swings
'Just because someone says they're going premium, that does not make them a premium airline,' says Ed Bastian By Alison Sider Fuel is taking a chunk out of Delta Air Lines' profits. The carrier on Friday sharply lowere...
09:30 WSJ 4 mins read
The Sunday Scaries Are Real-and They're Getting Worse
Jill Davis's official work week starts Monday morning. Unofficially, it kicks off every Sunday afternoon when, like clockwork, anxious thoughts begin seeping into her brain. "Am I organized and ready enough? Am I prepar...
17:00 WSJ 5 mins read
America's Gig Workers Turn to an Old-School Union
LOS ANGELES -- When Margarita Peñalosa began driving for Uber and Lyft in 2017, eight hours a day was enough to cover living expenses and send cash to family in Colombia. Now she said it takes 12-hour days. "The cost of...
06:33 WSJ 5 mins read
U.K. Plays Political Football
Club's sanctions risk financial relationship with Abu Dhabi's soccer supporters By Max Colchester, Joshua Robinson and Eliot Brown LONDON -- The acquisition of Manchester City by an Abu Dhabi royal was always much more...
06:33 WSJ 2 mins read
New Italian Job's Loot: $5.6 Million in Wine
Bandits used a company's own forklifts to steal some 30,000 bottles, including prized reds By Margherita Stancati, Nick Kostov and Laura Cooper ROME -- Thieves stole thousands of bottles of wine worth around $5.6 milli...
06:33 WSJ 7 mins read
Robot Push Proves Tricky for Walmart
Machines sorting merchandise hit kinks with some products; 'peak complexity' By Sarah Nassauer | Photography by Brian Kaiser for WSJ Walmart has relied for years on more than 140,000 warehouse workers to unload trucks,...
00:37 WSJ 2 mins read
Correction to Cable One Article on Oct. 8
Cable One is nearing a deal to raise roughly $1.25 billion in new financing to address its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter. The new first-lien term loan will be provided by both existing and...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
Refiners To Reap Earnings Bonanza From Wars
Independent fuel makers Valero Energy, Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 are set to crush their near-record earnings results of the June quarter By Collin Eaton and Benoît Morenne The earnings of America's largest oil...
06:33 WSJ 1 min read
Larry Ellison Relists Waterfront Estate in Florida
The tech billionaire is relisting his roughly 8.4-acre North Palm Beach property as he continues adding to his estate in nearby Manalapan By Katherine Clarke Tech billionaire Larry Ellison plans to relist his oceanfron...
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06:33 WSJ 3 mins read
Crypto Player Ripple Breaks Into Finance
Crypto firm emerges as serious player in financing leveraged ETFs, a lucrative business long dominated by big banks By Vicky Ge Huang Ripple has expanded into nearly every corner of the crypto industry, from stablecoin...
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06:32 WSJ 5 mins read
The Outlook: Why Higher Bond Yields Aren't Going Away
WSJ survey reveals forecasters think inflation, Federal Reserve rate increases and debt will keep borrowing costs higher for longer By Matt Grossman and Anthony DeBarros Some economic shocks look like bumps in the road...
01:00 WSJ 8 mins read
The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain
LIVERPOOL -- Catherine Wieland got on Britain's welfare rolls in 2021. With a history of emotional trauma, she was too anxious to go outside or carry out simple tasks like washing herself, she told the government. Soon,...
09:30 WSJ 5 mins read
Why Economists Think Higher Bond Yields Are Here to Stay
Some economic shocks look like bumps in the road -- tariffs, to which businesses adjust, or a war with Iran that raises oil prices temporarily. But economists increasingly believe that higher U.S. interest rates will def...
06:33 WSJ 1 min read
Costs Dim Consumer Sentiment In Survey
The survey's headline index fell to 46.3 in its preliminary October reading, versus 48.1 in September By Matt Grossman Consumers' mood has darkened in October, according to the University of Michigan's monthly survey....
06:33 WSJ 5 mins read
What Inflation Means for Midterms
The run-up in prices has cooled from four years ago, but voters are still paying more By Owen Tucker-Smith Four years ago, in the run-up to the last midterm elections, prices were rising more than twice as quickly as t...
00:00 WSJ 5 mins read
What Six Years of Inflation Mean for the Midterms
Four years ago, in the run-up to the last midterm elections, prices were rising more than twice as quickly as they are now. President Trump has repeatedly reminded voters of the 2022 inflation rate, blaming high prices o...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
French Government Lays Out Steps to Set Cuts
In an interview, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said he is open to negotiation but will do 'whatever it takes' to get the budget through By Stacy Meichtry and Noemie Bisserbe PARIS -- France's finance minister...
06:07 WSJ 4 mins read
REVIEW & OUTLOOK (Editorial): France's Bonfire of Inanities
It's easy to scoff at French rioting as its national past time, but what's unfolding now is different. France is approaching its most serious crisis in decades, and the disorder in the streets may be only the start. Ost...
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06:32 WSJ 6 mins read
Americans' Savings Help Fuel Private Credit
Indexed annuities guarantee no market losses, but insurers can periodically adjust the formula for returns By Heather Gillers When Sabrina Elliott inherited some money, her son-in-law helped her invest $40,000 in a pro...
06:33 WSJ 5 mins read
Influencers Urge Public: Don't Pay Medical Bills
As costs to patients explode, so do social-media posts suggesting people think twice about paying high bills By Peter Loftus Ian Howard was shocked to get a $1,000 bill for a brief visit to the emergency room that dete...
06:33 WSJ 3 mins read
Wells Fargo Faces Probe Of Loans to Minorities
White House probes programs boosting homeownership for minority groups By Dylan Tokar Trump administration housing officials are launching an investigation into Wells Fargo over programs and commitments the bank made o...
06:33 WSJ 3 mins read
Justices Seem to Back 401(k) Expansion
Justices on Tuesday heard a pivotal case for buyout firms' push into individual retirement accounts By Chris Cumming The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward a ruling that could smooth private equity's path into...
06:33 WSJ 2 mins read
L'Oréal Taps Firms to Shed Liability
The cosmetics company's U.S. subsidiary is working with Weil Gotshal and Ducera to address talc-related lawsuits By Alexander Gladstone, Andrew Scurria and Jodi Xu Klein L'Oréal has engaged restructuring advisers to ex...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
Heard on the Street: Bank Stocks Haunted by Ghosts of 2023
Lenders have stronger balance sheets now as they face a new rate-rise cycle By Telis Demos When the Federal Reserve starts raising interest rates, the market immediately starts to wonder: What will break? During the l...
06:33 WSJ 1 min read
KKR To Buy Fund Specialist Gen II
Private-capital funds have proliferated in recent years as investors seek to reduce reliance on public markets By Lauren Thomas and Ben Dummett KKR has struck a deal to buy Gen II, a fund administrator that targets buy...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
A Walter Charity Is Linked To a Firm In Probe
Academy Group will be funded by an entity being examined as part of the probe into Walter's insurance lending; charity says the switch was always the plan By Shane Shifflett and Margot Patrick A charity that Los Angele...
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06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
Robinhood Traders Share Tales of Wealth
The stock market is back at records. These everyday Americans are one reason why. By Hannah Erin Lang and Rachel Mendelson | Photography by Jeff Lautenberger for WSJ HOUSTON -- Thirty minutes before Robinhood Markets C...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
In My Kitchen: Toasting New Beginnings
People line up for almond-butter toast at Canyon Coffee. Co-founder Ally Walsh on how the snack became a daily ritual after a tumultuous year. By Lane Florsheim | Photography by Justin Chung for WSJ IN MY KITCHEN Ally...
06:33 WSJ 7 mins read
Why Fraternities Are So Hard to Reform The Problem With Frats
The sexual assault allegations at Cornell have rekindled debate about the role frats play in shaping masculinity By Nicholas L. Syrett Nicholas L. Syrett, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the auth...
06:33 WSJ 7 mins read
Why Fraternities Are So Hard to Reform The -2
The sexual assault allegations at Cornell have rekindled debate about the role frats play in shaping masculinity By Nicholas L. Syrett Nicholas L. Syrett, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the auth...
06:33 WSJ 3 mins read
Older Americans Get Much Wealthier
Federal Reserve study finds overall median net worth rose 2% between 2022 and 2025 By Rachel Louise Ensign The typical American family got a little wealthier in the years following the Covid-19 pandemic, while well-off...
06:32 WSJ 3 mins read
Small-Cap Stocks Hit Hard Amid Surge in Bond Yields
The Russell 2000, which tracks the shares of small companies, closed Friday on a five-week losing streak By Vicky Ge Huang As bond yields march higher, small companies are taking the brunt of the damage. The Russell 2...
15:08 WSJ 1 min read
Humana Stock Jumps After Insurer Gets High Medicare Ratings
Humana shares surged 12%, poised to close at their highest level in more than two years, after the insurer won sharply improved scores on bonus-generating Medicare quality measures. Late Thursday, the agency that overse...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
Contagious Selloff In Bonds Is Fizzling
Impact of rising yields on mortgage debt and Treasury futures peters out By Sam Goldfarb The battered U.S. bond market is finally getting a dose of good news. A confluence of market quirks blamed for deepening the rec...
06:33 WSJ 5 mins read
Home Buyers See Advantage Despite Rates
Cost of mortgages is pressuring sellers to cut asking prices in some metro areas By Nicholas G. Miller Mortgage rates hitting their highest point in nearly three years is lousy news for an overall stagnant housing mark...
06:33 WSJ 5 mins read
Heard on the Street: In a High-Yield World, the 'Why' Is Key
Before chasing today's higher rates, buyers need to figure out the reason they want to invest in bonds in the first place By Telis Demos Are you a bond trader or a yield farmer? That question has taken on added signif...
06:33 WSJ 2 mins read
Biotech IPOs Charge Ahead as Deals Stall
TRex Bio and Retension Pharmaceuticals are set to continue the industry's public debut rebound By Brian Gormley Biotechnology companies are sprinting to the public markets and defying a broader IPO slowdown. Twenty-th...
06:33 WSJ 2 mins read
Argenx Shares Plunge On Clinical Trial's Halt
The company separately said it would move to late-stage development of a celiac-disease drug it acquired this year By Adrià Calatayud Argenx shares fell sharply after the biotech company stopped a late-stage clinical t...
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06:32 WSJ 6 mins read
Probe of Trump Foes Falters
Departures, infighting, inexperience beset DOJ inquiry into alleged conspiracy By Sadie Gurman, Dave Michaels and Josh Dawsey Last year, Justice Department officials said a sweeping investigation would unravel a grand...
06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
Hegseth Gets Heat Over Livestream Firing Squad
Vance questioned whether the Pentagon would really livestream Nidal Hasan's execution. He also said he wouldn't watch. By Lara Seligman and Yoko Kubota The planned Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Hasan, a former officer who...
06:32 WSJ 6 mins read
At Davos, Guilfoyle Boasted About Perks
On a recording, ambassador said businessmen paid for her luxury travel By Rebecca Ballhaus, Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw and Dana Mattioli Kimberly Guilfoyle, as America's newly minted ambassador to Greece, boasted at D...
06:32 WSJ 2 mins read
DOJ Probes Networks on Halting Coverage
Major TV networks that rotate coverage of the White House learned of the investigation Friday By Joe Flint and Dave Michaels The Justice Department is investigating whether major TV networks violated federal antitrust...
06:32 WSJ 2 mins read
Pro-Trump Ads Funded by Taxpayers Ordered Off the Air
Court issues restraining order after finding the ads, which prominently feature the president and promote the administration's policies, are likely illegal By Brent Kendall A federal judge ordered the Trump administrat...
06:32 WSJ 6 mins read
Fed's Hammack Sees Engine of Inflation on Factory Floor
Beth Hammack says businesses' pricing power and a sturdy economy show interest rates aren't yet high enough to tame inflation By Nick Timiraos CLEVELAND -- Jack Schron spent most of 90 minutes last week showing Clevela...
06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
Tariff Refunds Lift Brands' Marketing
Cash back from the government will help pay for advertising and branding, companies say, though the messages may partly be marketing of their own By Patrick Coffee Advertisers from Macy's to Levi Strauss have announced...
06:00 WSJ 1 min read
Letters to the Editor: The West's Great Inheritance
Regarding your editorial "Rubio Gets to the Heart of the Matter" (Oct. 8.): The secretary of state is correct that the Western world must recover confidence in its history and heritage. That inheritance wasn't merely a r...
06:00 WSJ 3 mins read
REVIEW & OUTLOOK (Editorial): Democrats vs. Alaska, Again
The Alaska Senate race is a toss-up this year, which is remarkable given how Democrats in Washington keep demonstrating their zeal to stop economic development in the state. They did it again before they left town last m...
18:11 WSJ 6 mins read
The Conspiracy Probe of Trump Foes Is Faltering
Last year, Justice Department officials said a sweeping investigation would unravel a grand conspiracy by a cabal of national security officials who sought to undermine President Trump. Trump allies hoped it would defin...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
Human-Rights Lawyer Wins Nobel
South African recognized for efforts to promote peace and international law By Gareth Vipers and Alexandra Wexler The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African human-rights lawyer and judge Navi Pillay in recognit...
06:33 WSJ 4 mins read
U.S. Imposes Sanctions On the ICC
Administration wants international court to stop targeting citizens of nonmember states By Matthew Dalton, Vera Bergengruen and Laurence Norman PARIS -- The Trump administration announced sweeping sanctions on the Inte...
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09:14 WSJ 3 mins read
FTX's Old Bitcoin-Mining Assets Are Now Part of the AI Boom
A bitcoin-mining business that appeared left for dead after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire is being resuscitated to serve the artificial-intelligence build-out. The business, previously known as Genes...
06:32 WSJ 1 min read
What's News: Business & Finance
Prediction markets, such as Polymarket, have allowed betting on criminal cases, including the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, creating unusual challenges to the justice system. Amazon.com is in talks to acquire AI startup...
06:32 WSJ 3 mins read
Rogue Anthropic Model Shared Fake Murder Tip
The AI giant disclosed new incidents involving websites run by U.S. government agencies at the federal, state and local levels By Georgia Wells and Joseph Pisani Rogue AI models have hacked companies and tried to break...
06:32 WSJ 5 mins read
Artificial Intelligence Has a God Problem
Religious leaders are weighing in, creating a new political risk for the creators of the technology By Tim Higgins Pastor Joseph Hutchinson began a recent Sunday sermon by pointing to the Book of Revelation, the final...
06:32 WSJ 1 min read
Amazon in Talks To Buy AI Startup
San Francisco company's software makes it easier for developers to switch between different AI chips By Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas Amazon.com is in talks to acquire artificial-intelligence startup Decart in a deal th...
06:32 WSJ 5 mins read
The Upside to EV Slump: Charging Is Getting Better
Public chargers continue to be installed at a steady clip in the U.S. By Patrick George Electric-vehicle sales in the U.S. are down by half compared with last year. The EV charging industry evidently didn't get the mem...
06:00 WSJ 4 mins read
Inside View: How the AI Boom Ends ---- By Andy Kessler
I can tell you how the artificial-intelligence data-center boom will probably end, but I can't tell you when. Implementing large language models has been a brute-force approach: Big, fast and expensive GPUs from Nvidia c...
00:57 WSJ 2 mins read
How to Keep Your Webcam Safe From Prying Eyes
Home security cameras are increasingly popular, and hackers are constantly trying to get in -- sometimes, as a Wall Street Journal visual investigation shows, to aid warfighters. Here are steps you can take to help prote...
09:30 WSJ 7 mins read
The U.S. Army's Desert Tech Test Shows Long Road -2
Under a blistering desert sun, the U.S. Army strained to show it had become a modern, AI-powered fighting force. Some blamed the heat. It was July in the Mojave Desert, and the thermometer climbed toward 110 degrees. Se...
06:33 WSJ 5 mins read
The Runway Rundown
Ten 10 key takeaways from the spring 2027 season, which was heavy on knee-length skirts-and eye-catching stunts By Chantal Fernandez At the spring 2027 fashion weeks, which wrapped up in Paris on Tuesday, the industry'...
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10:26 WSJ 3 mins read
Wealth Adviser: Locking In a Mortgage Rate
Prospective homeowners are rushing to lock in mortgage rates before they climb any further, and many are locking for longer than they did a year ago. The rise in rates is fueling anxiety among borrowers who fear they co...
09:30 WSJ 4 mins read
First-Class Amenity Kits Have Become Holy Grail Collectibles
Like most New Yorkers, Andrew Lim doesn't have much space in his apartment. The 51-year-old e-commerce specialist shares a tight one-bedroom with his husband in Manhattan's Flatiron district. But there will always be ro...
06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
New Delhi Locks Down As Voter Protests Grow
NEW DELHI -- The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi locked down India's capital with thousands of security forces in a bid to thwart a mass protest over an effort to clean up voter lists that critics say i...
06:32 WSJ 7 mins read
Video Cameras Are Hacked for War
Combatants hijack vulnerable devices to track, surveil and attack the enemy By Daniel Michaels, Anat Peled and Milàn Czerny | Design and Graphics by Audrey Valbuena and Max Rust As U.S. and Israeli forces bombed Iran e...
06:32 WSJ 1 min read
What's News: Worldwide
President Trump pushed Russia and Ukraine to agree to halt strikes on energy infrastructure, as he continued to face bipartisan criticism over moves in recent days to ease U.S. pressure on Moscow and shift blame for the...
06:32 WSJ 7 mins read
Saudi Crown Prince's Burden Grows Heavier as Houthis Strike
Kingdom is facing myriad dilemmas as Iran-backed rebels intensify attacks By Summer Said and Georgi Kantchev DUBAI -- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman started the year on a high note. He had just visited the Whit...
06:32 WSJ 5 mins read
Trump's Russia Energy Deal Gets Pushback
As president presses a Ukraine ceasefire, senators call his export plan illegal By Marcus Walker and Robbie Gramer President Trump pushed Russia and Ukraine to agree to halt strikes on each other's energy infrastructur...
06:32 WSJ 4 mins read
Reckitt Thrives on China Social Media
A change in Reckitt's sales tactics led to 12 consecutive quarters of double-digit sales growth in the country By Natasha Khan Several years ago, China-based executives of Lysol maker Reckitt leveled with their boss. M...