Wall Street JournalResults for news from the Wall Street Journal Page 4 of 32690 news found. PREVIUS - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - ..650 - 651 - 652 - 653 - 654 - NEXT NY Jets As Jets Bring in Staffing Specialist, Ryan Sounds Resigned to Fate Jets owner Woody Johnson appears ready to hit reset on the Jets, asking veteran NFL executive Charley Casserly to advise the organization on finding a new head coach or general manager after the season. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:31:23 EST Asian Business News Singapore Airlines, Tata Venture to Start Flights in January Singapore Airlines and India’s Tata Sons will start flights of a new joint venture airline in India early next month, a market where high costs and low fares have pushed most carriers into losses. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:31:02 EST Brooklyn Nets Nets' Brook Lopez Practices With Team Nets center Brook Lopez practiced with the team on Monday after missing the previous eight games with a strained lower back. Deron Williams did miss Monday’s practice after sitting out Sunday’s win over Detroit. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:22:47 EST World News Singer Joe Cocker Dies at Age 70 Joe Cocker, the influential British rock and blues singer known for his gravelly voice and unbridled performance style, died Monday at age 70 in Crawford, Colo., following a battle with lung cancer. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:14:09 EST U S News 14 for 2014: Great Reads From The Wall Street Journal From the showdown at Pimco to the deadly heights of Everest, the America’s Cup miracle comeback to a personal investigation of the Sand Creek massacre, here are 14 great reads from the past year. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:10:49 EST NY Crime NYPD Chief: Shooter Was 'Solo Operator' The man who shot dead two New York City police officers Saturday acted alone and threatened to kill himself earlier that day, police officials said Monday. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:04:41 EST Business Germany's Big Firms Pay Price for Small-Town Ties Many of Germany’s global giants like Adidas and Volkswagen are based in small towns almost unknown outside their home country. These out-of-the-way locations can complicate business travel and make jobs harder to fill. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:03:01 EST Media Marketing Pugnacious Dish Boss Racks Up TV Brawls Charlie Ergen, chairman of satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp., is a renowned card shark. Lately, he’s been playing some high-stakes poker with the media industry’s giants. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:57:22 EST World News North Korea's Internet Goes Dark After being accused of a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, Pyongyang’s meager Internet access was shut down, raising speculation about what happened. Web access appeared to be restored hours later. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:53:38 EST Aches Claims The Root of an Energy Booster Maca, a root from the mountains of Peru has widespread health benefits and can enhance libido in both men and women, according to exporters of the root. Aches & Claims looks at the evidence. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:50:41 EST Art Review Beautiful Religious Propaganda The J. Paul Getty Museum features Counter-Reformation tapestries and a recently acquired—and pricey—Impressionist painting. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:47:45 EST Business Sony Asks Twitter to Suspend User Over Released Documents A lawyer representing Sony Pictures asked Twitter to suspend the account of a user who posted more than 50 internal company documents released by hackers. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:44:38 EST NY Crime Protesters Soften Tone, Carry On The fatal shootings of two New York City police officers have protesters recalibrating their tone as they demonstrate against what they see as violent law-enforcement tactics. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:43:55 EST Politics And Policy IRS Considered Donations Tax IRS officials considered imposing a tax on large donations to many tax-exempt political organizations in 2011, recently released emails show, a move that could have disproportionately hurt conservative activists. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:43:25 EST World News Nicaragua Starts Canal as Critics Lambaste It A Chinese-led consortium began construction work on a canal across Nicaragua that backers say will rival the Panama Canal but which critics say is economically unfeasible and environmentally disastrous. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:27:03 EST NHL Rangers' Resurgent Blue Line Is Making the Difference Since defenseman Ryan McDonagh returned from a shoulder injury on Nov. 28, the Rangers have won eight of 10 games. Once again, the Blueshirts’ defensemen are stout and confident. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:16:59 EST Business Iron-Ore Producer Bets on Midwest As global iron-ore prices fell almost 50% in the past year, Cliffs Natural Resources’ CEO argued his company benefits from having a captive market. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:12:49 EST Politics And Policy Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure to Resign The State Department’s special envoy for Guantanamo closure is resigning as the Obama administration heads into a critical year in its push to close down the detainee prison facility. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:10:31 EST NY Culture Stars, Constellations and a Trip Back Into the Woods Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson star in Nick Payne’s ‘Constellations’; the Roundabout’s stripped-down treatment of ‘Into the Woods’; and more in this week’s On Stage. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:43:53 EST NY Culture The Challenge of the Classical Christmas Album The classical-music holiday album represents everything from a sincere embrace of the season to an evergreen marketing opportunity, and it brings different challenges and conventions than recording Bach or Beethoven. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:41:18 EST U S News NYC Mayor, Police Unions Postpone Debate New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and police unions agreed to end a war of words until two officers fatally shot this weekend are laid to rest, as law-enforcement agencies nationwide assessed the safety of members. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:25:02 EST Asian Business News Telstra Expands in Asia Telstra Corp., Australia’s dominant telecoms provider, has reignited its Asian expansion drive with a $697 million purchase of Pacnet, Asia’s biggest operator of subsea cables. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:20:47 EST Urban Gardner The Mind and Its Mysteries Nobel Prize winner Paul Greengard and Sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard on creativity, déjà vu and the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize they established for female scientists. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:20:06 EST Business Boeing May Have Benefited From Alleged Change In NASA Contract Scoring A legal battle over Boeing Co.’s $4.2 billion contract to transport U.S. astronauts into orbit may hinge on whether the company benefited from an alleged last-minute change by NASA in its criteria for picking winning bids. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:09:20 EST Business U.S. Approves Skin Cancer Treatment The FDA granted accelerated approval to Bristol-Myers’s skin-cancer treatment Opdivo, which uses the body’s immune system to fight tumors. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:06:45 EST Business Halliburton-Baker Hughes Courtship Was Tense at Times Halliburton sweetened its final offer slightly from its first bid for rival Baker Hughes, in what it revealed was a sometimes-tense courtship between the two oil-field services companies. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:01:23 EST CFO Journal Ranking the Top 20 Finance Chiefs Macy’s chief financial officer Karen Houget leads the Journal’s Top 20 ranking of CFOs this year. Nipping at her heels were Union Pacific’s Robert Knight and Comcast’s Michael Angelakis. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:39:18 EST Middle East News Iran's Economy Facing New Perils Plummeting oil prices and the failure so far to conclude a nuclear agreement are dealing a double blow to Iran’s economy just as it was starting to recover. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:30:29 EST Media Marketing Dish Boss Racks Up TV Brawls Charlie Ergen, chairman of satellite-TV provider Dish Network, is a renowned card shark. Lately, he’s been playing some high-stakes poker with the media industry’s giants. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:13:00 EST Markets F-Squared Settles SEC Charges The firm admitted it misled clients about its track record and agreed to pay $35 million in a settlement with regulators. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:04:47 EST Business Sony at Odds With Theaters Sony Pictures Entertainment’s decision to pull “The Interview” from its Dec. 25 release has strained relations with the country’s movie theaters. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:01:32 EST Burning Question What's the Best Way to Stick With A Resolution? It is the end of the year, a time when millions of American make promises to improve their lives and themselves. According to a recent Marist Poll, 59% of people kept their New Year resolutions in 2014. So what is it that makes a resolution stick? One exp Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:56:03 EST Ahead Of The Tape By Spencer Jakab Checking Walgreen's Vital Signs Talk about breaking good. The three big U.S. drugstore chains, Walgreen Co., CVS Health Corp. and Rite Aid Corp., have trounced the retail sector and the overall stock market since the start of 2013. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:55:55 EST Commodities Natural Gas Near 2-Year Low Mild temperatures across the U.S. have sent natural-gas futures tumbling to their lowest level in nearly two years, more good news for consumers already reaping the benefits of a 30% decline in gasoline prices. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:55:40 EST The Informed Patient New Ways for Patients to Live Better With Serious Illness Patients with serious illnesses need medical treatments to survive. But they are increasingly taking advantage of the specialty known as palliative care, which offers day-to-day relief from symptoms as well as stress and lifestyle management. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:55:07 EST Business Future of the Car Is Not What It Was Engineering consultant Sandy Munro has a shop in suburban Detroit where he takes apart cars, seeking clues to design and manufacturing tricks he can sell to manufacturers eager for a cram course on their competition. On one day recently, Mr. Munro was dis Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:54:57 EST CFO Journal As Markets Roar, CFOs Find Their Place at the Top When Karen Hoguet graduated from Harvard Business School in 1980, she didn’t aspire to be a chief financial officer. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:54:50 EST Results for news from the Wall Street Journal Page 4 of 32690 news found. PREVIUS - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - ..650 - 651 - 652 - 653 - 654 - NEXT |