FILE PHOTO – Nelson Peltz speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 25, 2016. Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management LP said on Monday it was seeking a seat for its billionaire chief executive at Procter & Gamble Co’s (PG.N) board as... More »
FTSE Russell is likely to restrict the inclusion of companies with unequal voting rights in some of its equity indexes, to address investor concerns over falling corporate governance standards, the CEO of the world’s largest index company said. More »
A Kitkat chocolate bar is pictured in the supermarket of Nestle headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy Activist investor Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC on Sunday unveiled a stake of more than 1 percent in Switzerland’s Nest... More »
FILE PHOTO – A pump jack operates at a well site leased by Devon Energy Production Company near Guthrie, Oklahoma September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo Trading volumes and open interest in U.S. crude futures soared in 2016, particularly among buye... More »
Beauty expert Bobbi Brown in her home in New Jersey. Courtesy of Bobbi Brown/Photo by Alice Gao Lien Tan More »
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday in a lawsuit over adult diapers will make it more difficult for companies accused of patent infringement to shoot down lawsuits because the plaintiffs waited too long to bring them. More »
Forensic experts examine the scene after a helicopter crashed in Istanbul, Turkey, March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Osman Orsal A helicopter carrying an executive of the Turkish Eczabicasi group and four Russians, including the firm’s Russian operations chief, crashed ... More »
OPI co-founder Suzi Weiss-Fischmann. REUTERS/Courtesy OPI Lien Tan More »
A currency dealer works at a dealing room of a bank in Seoul, South Korea, August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji South Korean companies on Friday bore the brunt of Chinese anger over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system outside Seoul, as shares tumbl... More »
FILE PHOTO — Shopping carts are seen outside a new Wal-Mart Express store in Chicago July 26, 2011. REUTERS/John Gress/File Photo Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is running a new price-comparison test in at least 1,200 U.S. stores and squeezing packaged goods supp... More »
The company logo for Unilever is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., February 17, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Unilever (ULVR.L) said the shock of Kraft Heinz’s (KHC.O) opportunistic approach... More »
File Photo: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett plays bridge during the Berkshire annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo Warren Buffett, widely considered one of the world’s best investors, is likely to tout th... More »
The company logo for Unilever is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., February 17, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid In a world in which most investment managers are paid to be short- or medium-term in their ... More »
Billionaire activist-investor Carl Icahn gives an interview on FOX Business Network’s Neil Cavuto show in New York, U.S. on February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn increased his holdings in Herbalife Ltd ... More »
Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, Britain June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo Soros Fund Management, the firm that invests the personal fortune of billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros... More »
FILE PHOTO – The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Procter & Gamble (PG) is seen on a tube of toothpaste in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Trian Fund Management LP disclosed a... More »
The logo of Mondelez International is pictured at the company’s building in Zurich November 14, 2012. T REUTERS/Michael Buholzer The number of U.S. companies using a budgeting tool made famous in the 1970s by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is surging as th... More »
A discarded carrier bag is seen in a shopping trolley outside a Tesco supermarket in London, Britain, January 5, 2015. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo Two years after an accounting scandal plunged Tesco into the worst crisis in its 97-year history, the Briti... More »
A Microsoft logo is seen next to a cloud the day after Microsoft Corp’s $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn Corp, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 14, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it will be increasing pricing for its enterpris... More »
A group of 40 investors managing $1.25 trillion in assets have launched a campaign to encourage 16 global food companies to change the way they source protein for their products to help to reduce environmental and health risks. More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday banned some over-the-counter antibacterial hand and body wash products, saying they are no more effective than soap and water and could cause long-term harm. More »
An Herbalife logo is shown on a poster at a clinic in the Mission District in San Francisco, California April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo Bayliss More »
NEW YORK Britain’s unexpected decision to leave the European Union spurred a global stock market selloff that has inspired some opportunistic U.S. investors to move in the opposite direction. Operating on the belief that the initial rout might be an overreacti... More »
NEW YORK Warren Buffett will release his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders after a year when its stock price lagged the broader market by the most since 2009, adding to years of underperformance. The letter, due Saturday, is a must-read on W... More »
Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP [CBS.UL] is close to an agreement to buy Avon Products Inc’s (AVP.N) North American business for $170 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. New York-based Cerberus will also invest $435 millio... More »
NEW YORK Executives of consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N), the maker of Tide detergent and other household goods, should consider breaking up the company to improve its beleaguered performance, Barron’s financial newspaper said. The “radical ac... More »
Google Inc’s YouTube is planning to provide advertisers with data on how many of the ads on its internet video service can be seen by viewers, in response to advertiser complaints, according to the Financial Times. The online story, which cited unnamed people ... More »
CANNES (This version of the story corrects figures on Publicis contract wins, paragraph 13) The reluctance of big companies to spend at a time of lacklustre global growth and fewer major sporting events this year are dampening demand for advertising, said the ... More »
