Business April 29, 2019

Foxconn Tore Up a Small Town to Build a Big Factory—Then Retreated

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MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.Six miles west of Lake Michigan lies a cleared building site half again as big as Central Park, ready for Foxconn Technology Groups $10 billion liquid-crystal-display factory. Contractors have bulldozed about 75 homes in Mount Pleasant an…

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.Six miles west of Lake Michigan lies a cleared building site half again as big as Central Park, ready for Foxconn Technology Groups $10 billion liquid-crystal-display factory.
Contractors have bulldozed about 75 homes in Mount Pleasant an…
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Antonios Valamontes is a serial entrepreneur and investor.

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May 11, 2020

Drugmakers Overhaul the Sales Pitch Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns

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Drug-company sales representatives, grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, are blasting out emails and hosting video calls to pitch new treatments for a variety of ailments to doctors, a different way of doing things for a field force that had relied on visiting with physicians in person. On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved…

May 11, 2020

U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Near 80,000 as Mysterious New Symptoms Appear

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With the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic approaching 80,000 and states trying to reopen, scientists and physicians continued to grapple with mysteries of how the pathogen attacks the human body, and how to fight back. In the U.S., total deaths reached 79,528, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. World-wide, nearly 283,000 people…

May 11, 2020

Wall Street Bets Virus Meltdown Gives Landlords a Chance to Grow

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Wall Street’s wager on high-earning suburban renters is paying off, and it is raising its stakes. Investors are flocking to America’s mega landlords, drawn by signs the companies that emerged from last decade’s foreclosure crisis owning huge pools of rental houses are weathering the economic shutdown far better than feared. Many also expect that the…

May 11, 2020

Reopening the Coronavirus-Era Office: One-Person Elevators, No Cafeterias

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Welcome back to work. The corporate cafeteria is closed. The coffee makers are unplugged. And the desks are separated by plastic. Every part of office life is being re-examined in the era of Covid-19. When employees file back into American workplaces—some wearing masks—many will find the office transformed, human-resources and real-estate executives say.Elevators may only…

May 11, 2020

Inside the Refueling of a Nuclear-Power Plant as Coronavirus Hit

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BRACEVILLE, Ill.—The coronavirus pandemic has put much of life and business on hold, but some things can’t wait—such as refuelings at a nuclear-power plant. It is a mammoth undertaking involving thousands of maintenance jobs and an influx of hundreds of workers over a few weeks—all tightly choreographed and within the confines of a single plant.…

May 11, 2020

Jerry Stiller, Comedian and ‘Seinfeld’ Actor, Dies at 92

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NEW YORK—Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and re-emerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. He died of natural causes, his son—a comedy star himself—said in a tweet.…

May 11, 2020

Shanghai Disneyland Reopens With the Magic of Social Distancing

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SHANGHAI—Shanghai Disneyland welcomed visitors for the first time since January, becoming one of the highest profile tourist spots to reopen as China reboots parts of its economy that were shut down by the coronavirus. If Monday’s reopening was anything to go by, Walt Disney Co. DIS 3.40% ’s theme park kingdom is likely to regain…

May 11, 2020

Coronavirus Updates: Shanghai Disneyland Reopens With the Magic of Social Distancing

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Marriott International’s profit for the first three months of the year fell sharply as the Covid-19 pandemic caused it to close many of its hotels for the duration of the health crisis. The world’s largest hotel operator posted net income of $31 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with $375 million, or $1.09 a…

May 10, 2020

Big Money Managers Take Lead Role in Managing Coronavirus Stimulus

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The Federal Reserve’s giant program of corporate bond buying is about to kick in. It will hand a critical new role in propping the struggling economy to a business with increasing clout in the financial world: money management. The central bank has tapped BlackRock Inc. to help it direct money into both new and already-issued…

May 10, 2020

Factories Close for Good as Coronavirus Cuts Demand

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Factory furloughs across the U.S. are becoming permanent closings, a sign of the heavy damage the coronavirus pandemic and shutdowns are exerting on the industrial economy.Makers of dishware in North Carolina, furniture foam in Oregon and cutting boards in Michigan are among the companies closing factories in recent weeks. Caterpillar Inc. said it is considering…

May 10, 2020

On Long Runs, She Plans for Her Company’s Long Run

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Kelly Grier has always used her runs as thinking time. These days, the Ernst & Young senior executive has a lot to think about. “It’s an extraordinary time to be a leader,” she says. “I have more than 80,000 people relying on me.” Ms. Grier creates a mental to-do list for her runs. “It could…

May 10, 2020

America’s Smallest Stocks Are Staging a Comeback

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Shares of small U.S. companies are racing higher, stirring a debate among investors about how much longer the stock market can keep rallying despite some of the grimmest economic news since the Great Depression. The market’s rally over the past several weeks has stood in contrast to the economic data investors have gotten since the…

May 9, 2020

WSJ Crossword: As They Sigh in the Outback

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00:00 Settings Timer Skip Filled Squares Auto Check Answers Keyboard Sounds AcrossDown Close Are you sure you want to reset the grid? Yes No Close Congratulations! You correctly completed the puzzle in 0:00 Play Another Crossword View all puzzles Close Keep Trying! It’s not quite right yet. Return to Puzzle Play Another Crossword View all…

May 9, 2020

So Your Family Wants to Make a TikTok

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How to make the perfect family TikTok? It’s a question most parents had probably never considered until coronavirus cooped up moms, dads and kids in their homes, alone, with no lines to the outside world but the screen. The McFarland family knows something about this. A family of five from Louisville, Ky., they are TikTok…

May 9, 2020

The Staying Inside Guide: Fenders, Tailfins and French Curves

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No digital photograph or video can replace the feeling of standing two feet away from a 1934 Voisin Type C27 or 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, but amid the coronavirus lockdown some of the best auto museums are trying. The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., has the definitive collection of Art Deco automobiles in the…

May 9, 2020

How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus

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Lauren Gardner, an associate engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, was sitting in a school coffee shop with two graduate students in January, chatting about their work on measles, Dengue fever and the Zika virus, when conversation turned to an emerging coronavirus in China. The students, both from China, wanted to track it, and Dr.…

May 9, 2020

Which Korean Baseball Team Is the Yankees? Here’s a Primer.

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With ESPN now airing six live baseball games a week from South Korea, lots of American fans find themselves asking an important question: Which team should I root for? To find out, we spoke to Daniel Kim, a former Cleveland Indians scout who now works as a journalist covering the KBO in Korea. With his…

May 9, 2020

This Mother’s Day, Children Are Stepping Up

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“Haaaaaaaaappy Mother’s Day!” The bedroom door bursts open and a “surprised” mom, who has been hearing cabinets slamming, pans clanking (and was that a glass breaking?) for about an hour, greets her sweethearts as they bring in the burned pancakes—and spill orange juice on the bed. That was last year. This year? Well, moms might…

May 9, 2020

This Mother’s Day, Children Are Stepping Up

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May 9, 2020

How Eating Vegan Got Easy: Recipes That Resonate Now

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NEARLY 450,000 FANS subscribe to Rachel Ama’s vegan cooking channel on YouTube. It’s not hard to see why. Appearing in her family kitchen, the Londoner makes up dances, punctuates her jokes with sound effects and cooks brightly colored, approachable food that ranges from vegetable pastas to Caribbean rice and peas. Many of the viewers who…

Foxconn Tore Up a Small Town to Build a Big Factory—Then Retreated

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Drugmakers Overhaul the Sales Pitch Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns

U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Near 80,000 as Mysterious New Symptoms Appear

Wall Street Bets Virus Meltdown Gives Landlords a Chance to Grow

Reopening the Coronavirus-Era Office: One-Person Elevators, No Cafeterias

Inside the Refueling of a Nuclear-Power Plant as Coronavirus Hit

Jerry Stiller, Comedian and ‘Seinfeld’ Actor, Dies at 92

Shanghai Disneyland Reopens With the Magic of Social Distancing

Coronavirus Updates: Shanghai Disneyland Reopens With the Magic of Social Distancing

Big Money Managers Take Lead Role in Managing Coronavirus Stimulus

Factories Close for Good as Coronavirus Cuts Demand

On Long Runs, She Plans for Her Company’s Long Run

America’s Smallest Stocks Are Staging a Comeback

WSJ Crossword: As They Sigh in the Outback

So Your Family Wants to Make a TikTok

The Staying Inside Guide: Fenders, Tailfins and French Curves

How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus

Which Korean Baseball Team Is the Yankees? Here’s a Primer.

This Mother’s Day, Children Are Stepping Up

This Mother’s Day, Children Are Stepping Up

How Eating Vegan Got Easy: Recipes That Resonate Now

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