Southwest Airlines will prohibit passengers from using portable batteries to charge devices while they are inside bags because of the fire risk, the airline said Wednesday.Southwest is the first of…

Even after President Trump hit it with a 26 percent tariff, India had reason to be hopeful about trade negotiations with the United States.China was facing even higher import taxes.…

Laurene Powell Jobs, one of the wealthiest people in the world, cut just under 30 employees at Emerson Collective last week, in one of the first widespread layoffs at the…

Target’s woes continue.The underperforming retailer has struggled with tariff-fueled anxiety among shoppers and protests in response to its retreat from diversity policies. On Wednesday, it again fell short of expectations…

Hedge your language. Don’t be too specific. Don’t say “Trump.”For chief executives, speaking in public has become a tightrope walk. Say the wrong word and it might tick off the…

As a slogan in last year’s presidential campaign, “no tax on tips” was short, memorable and effective.As tax policy, it is more complex.On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed the No…

A bill pushed by the Trump administration that would extend tax cuts and increase military spending is amplifying debt and deficit concerns among bond investors, a powerful group of market…

Monroe Milstein, who turned a $75,000 investment in a derelict New Jersey garment plant into the nation’s third-largest discount retailer, Burlington Coat Factory — which he would sell in 2006…