Category : Markets

Visa on Tuesday announced plans to cut 7% of its workforce, or about 2,600 jobs, as the payment processor moves forward with a push to operate more efficiently. The job cuts are expected to primarily affect technology and product teams. “I have deep conviction that we are doing what is......

Airbus completed a test flight lasting more than 24 hours, a key step toward Qantas’ planned nonstop service linking Australia and Europe. The aircraft – a specially adapted A350-1000ULR – flew 14,338 miles from Melbourne, Australia, to Toulouse, France, in 24 hours and 24 minutes, according to Flightradar24 data. The......

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) on Monday said it reached a settlement that it would pay an estimated $5.5 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and talc products cause ovarian cancer, which could end years of litigation on the subject. The company said the proposed......

Ford Motor Co. is pursuing what could be its biggest military contract in decades as it competes to build a new tactical truck for the U.S. Army. The automaker has secured a Department of War contract to develop three prototypes based on its F-Series Super Duty pickups, The Wall Street......

Traffic at Cracker Barrel locations is yet to fully recover from the backlash against its failed rebrand last year despite signs of improvement, company executives said on the restaurant chain’s most recent earnings call. The company has been looking to put itself on a more solid financial footing after sales......

United Airlines reportedly approached Delta Air Lines last year about a potential merger that would have combined two of the largest U.S. carriers. United CEO Scott Kirby contacted Delta CEO Ed Bastian to pitch the potential tie-up, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. According......

Shares in the Magnificent 7 tech stocks have slumped this week amid investors’ concerns about massive spending by hyperscalers on artificial intelligence infrastructure amid uncertainty about the global economy due to the resumption of hostilities in the Iran war. The so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks experienced their biggest one-day drop......

Ford is planning to integrate Apple software into its next-generation fleet of electric vehicles, which will in turn help power hands-free driving technology. Apple and Ford announced Thursday that Apple Maps will be included in the automakers’ new Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform through the use of Apple’s MapKit for......

Tesla said Wednesday that its robotaxi fleet has logged more than 380,000 unsupervised miles across six cities in two states without what the company described as a “notable” safety incident. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, highlighted the fleet’s safety record during the electric vehicle maker’s second-quarter earnings......

More than 300,000 empty lots listed for sale could help reduce America’s housing shortage, according to new research from Zillow. The real estate company said 300,242 empty lots of five acres or fewer were listed for sale on Zillow in June, accounting for 17.4% of all for-sale listings. Building one......