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Tesla shares plunged on Monday, hitting their lowest point since before Election Day, as investors registered the impact of falling sales and increasing protests over the high-profile political role that Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, has taken on. In midday trading, the electric-car maker’s shares were down more than 11 percent for the day,…

The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was experiencing intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems from users on websites. The first outages on X, which Elon Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022, were reported before 6 a.m. Eastern time, after which the site and…

Pepper…and Salt

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 07, 2025 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Stock futures dropped on Monday as the selling pressures that dragged Wall Street last week persisted, while investors braced for a slew of economic data reports…

Steven Mnuchin had a pretty good weekend. First the treasury secretary pick advanced a step closer toward confirmation on Friday. Then his latest movie claimed the top spot at the box office. Mnuchin is an executive producer on Warner Bros.’ “The Lego Batman Movie,” which pulled in an estimated $55.6 million from U.S. audiences during…

HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR on Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. A CEO’s involvement in B2B sales deals, while often well-intentioned, can sometimes backfire. Christoph Senn in a marketing professor at INSEAD , and he’s spent years…

The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men — day laborers, almost all from Latin America and undocumented — would be scooped up by local contractors in pickup trucks for jobs painting, landscaping, removing debris. In recent weeks, the…