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The stock market suffered its worst week in many months, after a series of dizzying policy shifts on tariffs from the White House amid simmering concerns about the health of the economy. The S&P 500 seesawed throughout the day on Friday, marking a volatile end to a turbulent week, as investors parsed the latest employment…

Sitting beneath a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, more than two dozen of the most powerful figures in the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, together worth many billions of dollars, gathered in the White House on Friday for an audience with President Trump. When Mr. Trump entered the ornate State Dining Room after a short wait, the executives…

In the kibbutz where the Bibas family lived, a former hostage says she’ll never move back unless the Hamas threat is eliminated.

Investors could use some good news after this week’s selloff. Whether they get any in the week ahead remains to be seen. The past week’s slump was ugly. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and rumblings of economic weakness alarmed investors who fear the market outlook has taken a turn for the…

Uber’s top rival in India has some unsolicited advice for the U.S. startup: Go local. “They have a very cookie-cutter approach in terms of what the model is and how [to] force feed it into any geography,” Pranay Jivrajka, a top executive at Ola Cabs, said on the sidelines of CNN’s Asia Business Forum in…

Speed has a bad reputation in business, much of it deserved. Discussions of quality problems at Boeing or the collapse of FTX or even Quibi’s dramatic flameout often zero in on speed: Things were moving too fast for anyone to see the obvious flaws in leadership or culture or business model.