Electric aircraft maker Beta Technologies has raised $1.01 billion in its U.S. initial public offering on Monday, pricing its shares above its indicated range and underscoring the strong pipeline of new listings in the resurgent IPO market. The Vermont-based company...

Palantir Technologies Inc.’s pricey valuation has long confounded Wall Street but investors have largely ignored those calls, instead pushing the stock to yet another record ahead of earnings. The shares were priced at 85-times sales expected over the next 12 months,...

State Street Corp.’s asset-management arm acquired a minority holding in Coller Capital to tap the growing market for secondhand stakes in private markets. The firms announced the deal Monday in a statement that didn’t disclose the amount of the investment. The...

US factory activity shrank in October for an eighth straight month, driven by a pullback in production and tepid demand. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index eased 0.4 point to 48.7, according to data released Monday. Readings below 50 indicate...

China’s manufacturing activity expanded less than forecast in October, a private survey showed, adding to worrying signs about the economy’s momentum as the year winds down. The RatingDog China General Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index slipped to 50.6 from 51.2...

Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were rewarded by investors for reporting better-than-expected third-quarter profits. At both companies, earnings were boosted by the increased value of their stakes in Anthropic PBC, maker of the popular Claude chatbot....

Mark Zuckerberg warned that Meta Platforms Inc. will need to spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the year ahead, reigniting concerns from investors who sent its shares plunging on concerns that the massive investments won’t pay off. In...

Delinquency rates grew in September, hitting levels not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Many consumers were able to manage their debt during the pandemic, as spending slowed and stimulus checks provided some aid. However, with tariffs pushing up costs and...

Cheaper artificial intelligence tools from China threaten to trigger a sudden sell-off in US tech giants betting on generative AI, according to the investment chief at one of Australia’s largest pension funds. DeepSeek’s development has shown Chinese companies can...

Amazon.com Inc. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company’s workforce. The downsizing marks Amazon’s second round of reductions in recent years. Besides his ongoing war...

United Parcel Service Inc. shares soared after it smashed Wall Street’s profit expectations by cutting costs and eliminating 34,000 jobs this year. The cuts to its permanent operational workforce — a group that includes drivers and package handlers — marked a 70%...

Rogo says its AI platform helps make investment bankers’ work faster and smarter Sequoia Capital is making a bet on the future of Wall Street, leading an investment in Rogo Technologies Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence tools to make bankers more...

As the company that pioneered the concept of index fund investing and currently has a whopping $11 trillion in assets under management, Vanguard is the ultimate heavyweight in the American stock market. (1) So when the company puts out a report about the future of the...

If your next deli sandwich seems a bit short on lunchmeat, you’re probably not imagining it. Consumer prices for lunchmeats rose 4.2% in September, the largest monthly increase on record, far outpacing the 0.3% rise in broader grocery costs, according to the Bureau of...