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Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January, the month when Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive and a close adviser to President Trump, chided Germans for focusing too much on “past guilt” for Nazi-era crimes and urged voters to support a nationalist party in the country’s general election. As Mr. Musk has been…
The New York Times Company added 350,000 digital-only subscribers in the last quarter, the company said Wednesday, pushing the total subscriber count to more than 11.4 million. The new subscribers helped increase overall revenue to $726.6 million in the last three months of 2024, up 7.5 percent from a year earlier. Annual revenue for 2024…
You might even call it a Disney renaissance. After a period of turmoil — culture war spats, whipsawing operating strategies, layoffs, proxy campaigns by activist investors for board seats and strikes in Hollywood, to name just a few of the challenges — Disney has returned to its stable, steamrolling self. Robert A. Iger, the chief…
Amid a national debate on highly processed foods and the rise of weight-loss drugs, PepsiCo is responding by offering healthier versions of some snacks. Early Tuesday, the company reported that revenue in the fourth quarter slipped modestly to $27.8 billion from $27.9 billion a year earlier, while net income rose to $1.5 billion from $1.3…
Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed after the company suspended his Facebook and Instagram accounts following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, three people with knowledge of the matter said. The move was a significant concession by a major tech company and a victory for…
Tesla on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in profit for 2024 as rivals in China, Europe and the United States chipped away at its lead in the market for electric cars. The company, which is led by Elon Musk, said it made a profit of $2.3 billion during the last three months of 2024. That…
Since taking over as chief executive of Starbucks last fall, Brian Niccol has tried to come up with fixes for the many challenges facing the coffee giant. One of his top goals: Getting coffee to customers in four minutes or less. Four minutes might not sound so fast when you want a morning caffeine jolt,…
The S&P 500 clambered back to a record high on Thursday, inching above a peak reached in early December, after a rally that began with easing inflation concerns tipped over the threshold as President Donald J. Trump reiterated his commitment to bring down oil prices — a major component of inflation. The S&P 500 rose…
A swath of the nation’s largest lenders, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, reported quarterly and annual financial results on Wednesday that beat analysts’ expectations, and largely expressed a go-go attitude about what’s ahead for the economy after President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated next week. JPMorgan, the nation’s biggest bank, said it…