Taiwan’s Flagship Chip Maker Charts a Future Beyond Taiwan
TSMC has for decades provided a “Silicon Shield” to its namesake island. Now it sees both business and geopolitical reasons for going big in the U.S.
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Trump Purchased Netflix, Warner Bonds in Days After Deal Announcement
The investments, valued at up to $2 million, were detailed in a recent ethics disclosure form released by the White House.
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Trump Says He Plans to Sue JPMorgan for Allegedly ‘Debanking’ Him
President Donald Trump has previously accused both JPMorgan and Bank of America of “debanking.”
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Rail Regulator Sends $71.5 Billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Deal Back for Redo
The Surface Transportation Board has said that the application is incomplete and is inviting the companies to revise and resubmit it.
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Bank CEOs Carefully Push Back on Trump’s Credit-Card Rate Cap
Bank executives are tiptoeing around President Trump’s call to temporarily cap credit-card interest rates at 10%, opposing the idea while making sure not to antagonize the White House.
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Supersize CEO Pay Packages Aren’t Paying Off for Shareholders
The prospect of a nine-figure paycheck was supposed to spur CEOs to deliver outstanding results, but few of these Elon Musk-like experiments are working out that way.
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After Saks’s Collapse-a Bitter Rift With Amazon
The department-store chain’s bankruptcy throws one of Amazon’s biggest bets on luxury retail into doubt
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Supreme Court to Hear Bayer’s Challenge to Roundup Weedkiller Cases
High court gives company hope in its effort to mitigate long-running litigation that has cost it billions of dollars.
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OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads in ChatGPT in Push for Fresh Revenue
CEO Sam Altman once said advertising was a “last resort” for the company.
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Fox Went All In on Live Programming. It’s Paying Off.
Big brands are returning to Fox News, contributing to a run-up in its parent company’s shares that has validated a series of contrarian bets on the future of entertainment.
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Beyond Meat Tests Protein Beverages in Bid for Much-Needed Growth
The struggling company may create new risks in an attempt to design products based on its core plant-protein base, experts say.
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Walmart Reshapes Leadership Team as John Furner Prepares to Take the Helm
The changes elevate a group of longtime executives and will take effect when the new chief executive takes over next month.
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Halliburton and Its Rivals Can’t Wait to Get Back Into Venezuela
When it comes to stepping up Venezuelan oil production, investors bet that the early returns will go to oil-field services companies.
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Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy Weight Loss Shot Approved At Higher Dose in U.K.
The U.K.’s health regulator approved a higher dose of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight-loss drug applicable to patients with a body mass index of at least 30.
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TransDigm to Buy Jet Parts Engineering, Victor Sierra Aviation for $2.2 Billion
The two businesses generated about $280 million in combined revenue in 2025.
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