Category: Business
![Brighter Economic Mood Isn’t Translating Into Support for Biden Brighter Economic Mood Isn’t Translating Into Support for Biden](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/04/multimedia/2024-03-04-poll-econ-promo-index/2024-03-04-poll-econ-promo-index-facebookJumbo-v6.png)
Brighter Economic Mood Isn’t Translating Into Support for Biden
Economic vibes don’t necessarily predict electoral outcomes, though, and this campaign is different in many ways from those in the past. “We’re kind of in…
![Activist Investors Raise Bid for Macy’s Activist Investors Raise Bid for Macy’s](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/03/multimedia/03macys-jvwc/03macys-jvwc-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Activist Investors Raise Bid for Macy’s
The activist investor group that is seeking to buy Macy’s increased the pressure on the department store chain on Sunday, raising its offer and disclosing…
![After Gains at Big Three, U.A.W. Aims at Nonunion Plants After Gains at Big Three, U.A.W. Aims at Nonunion Plants](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/28/multimedia/00uaw-push-01-hwmz/00uaw-push-01-hwmz-facebookJumbo.jpg)
After Gains at Big Three, U.A.W. Aims at Nonunion Plants
When Shawn Fain, the United Automobile Workers president, unveiled the deal that ended six weeks of strikes at Ford Motor in the fall, he framed…
![A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/29/multimedia/29green-datacenters-01-bhjk/29green-datacenters-01-bhjk-facebookJumbo.jpg)
A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green
West Texas, from the oil rigs of the Permian Basin to the wind turbines twirling above the High Plains, has long been a magnet for…
![Starbucks and Union Agree to Work Out Framework for Contract Talks Starbucks and Union Agree to Work Out Framework for Contract Talks](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/27/multimedia/27starbucks-union-lkzc/27starbucks-union-lkzc-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Starbucks and Union Agree to Work Out Framework for Contract Talks
Starbucks and the union that represents employees in roughly 400 of its U.S. stores announced Tuesday that they were beginning discussions on a “foundational framework”…
![Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/20/multimedia/00newworld-01-fkth/00newworld-01-fkth-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, 50 or so Chinese people packed into a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. They…
![What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You. What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/22/multimedia/22Housing-Callout-fmvl/22Housing-Callout-fmvl-facebookJumbo.jpg)
What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You.
“No society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members.” I have that quote (from “Crabgrass Frontier,” the seminal history of America’s…
![Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media I.P.O. in Years Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media I.P.O. in Years](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/22/multimedia/22REDDIT-bmwk/22REDDIT-bmwk-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media I.P.O. in Years
Reddit, the community-focused message board site, filed to go public on Thursday, paving the way for it to be the first major social media company…
![Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It? Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It?](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/18/magazine/18mag-bigidea/18mag-bigidea-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It?
Picture this: You own a few hundred acres near a growing town that your family has been farming for generations. Turning a profit has gotten…
![U.S. Awards .5 Billion to Chipmaker GlobalFoundries U.S. Awards .5 Billion to Chipmaker GlobalFoundries](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/19/multimedia/19dc-globalfoundries1-fzkv/19dc-globalfoundries1-fzkv-facebookJumbo.jpg)
U.S. Awards $1.5 Billion to Chipmaker GlobalFoundries
The Biden administration on Monday announced a $1.5 billion award to the New York-based chipmaker GlobalFoundries, one of the first sizable grants from a government…