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Small-Business Lament: Too Few Mexicans in U.S. As the U.S. labor market tightens and the population of undocumented immigrants shrinks, employers in industries such as hospitality, construction and agriculture are scrambling to fill jobs they say Americans don’t want.
Draghi: ECB Stimulus Key Ingredient of Recovery European Central Bank President Mario Draghi renewed his call for eurozone politicians to make economic reforms to improve growth, boosting the effectiveness of stimulative monetary policy.
Banca Monte Dei Paschi Launches Debt-to-Equity Swap Troubled lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA started a €4.3 billion ($4.6 billion) debt-to-equity swap offer, the first step of an ambitious recapitalization plan it needs to carry out by the end of the year.
Stocks Weighed Down by Oil Volatility, Banks Stocks rowed back from recent gains while oil prices zigzagged ahead of a critical meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Activist Elliott Management Calls for Change at Cognizant Activist investor Elliott Management called for change at Cognizant, saying the IT outsourcing firm should boost profitability and return more of its cash to shareholders.
Myanmar Leader Calls Off Trip as Pressure Grows Over Rohingya The latest violence against the ethnic minority has killed dozens of people and exposed the limits of Aung San Suu Kyi’s authority over the military that until recently ran the country.
How Amazon Gets Its Holiday Hires Up to Speed in Two Days To prepare for the flood of holiday orders just under way, Amazon.com has been using technology ranging from touch screens to robots to shrink the time it takes to train new hires at its warehouses to as little as two days.
Tata Steel Poised to Sell U.K. Specialty Steel Business to Liberty House Tata Steel said it has agreed on a potential sale of its specialty steel business in the U.K. to Liberty House, a U.K.-based industrial group.
Navy Reports Data Breach After Hewlett Packard Laptop Compromised The U.S. Navy is warning more than 130,000 sailors of a data breach, after a laptop belonging to an employee of Navy contractor Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was compromised.
Heard on the Street A Double-Digit Return Is Hiding in Plain Sight at Under Armour The yawning gap between Under Armour’s voting and nonvoting shares offers an opportunity for investors.
Five Myths About Landing a Good Job Later in Life The conventional wisdom says it’s impossible. The facts say otherwise.
Huawei’s New Phone Faces Frosty Reception in U.S. The Chinese technology giant’s path to expansion in the U.S. faces technical roadblocks and a chilly reception from the telecom carriers who dominate handset sales there.
Activision Blizzard Reaches New Pay Deal With CEO Activision Blizzard reached a new employment agreement with longtime CEO Bobby Kotick that could put him among the highest paid executives in the U.S.
How Iran, Russia Could Derail Oil-Production Deal Iran and Russia have emerged as potentially deal-breaking obstacles to cuts in global oil production as OPEC members engage in a last-minute blitz of diplomacy ahead of a meeting on Wednesday.
Key Canada Events: Week of November 28 to December 2 Economic data, including the latest readings on growth and jobs, an appearance by the country’s top central banker and Canadian bank earnings are highlights on this week’s calendar.
Paul Nuttall to Be New Leader of UK Independence Party The euroskeptic UK Independence Party named Paul Nuttall, a longtime deputy to Nigel Farage, to lead the party, which has been riven by infighting since Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
An Older Golfer Has a Gripe With the USGA Golf is hard enough for the senior golfer. Now new rules are making it even harder.
Dodd-Frank Rules on Business: Up for a Rethink With the GOP vowing changes in the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, corporate finance chiefs are focusing on the fate of the law’s nonbank provisions.
Emerging Market Fund Managers Trampled by Trump Aberdeen Asset Management shows how a tough year isn’t getting easier for the sector.
Apollo-Backed Athene Could Raise $1 Billion for Shareholders in IPO Athene Holding submitted an amended filing for its coming initial public offering that could value the fixed-annuities provider at about $8 billion.
Hillary Joins the Recount Campaign Losing candidate presents no evidence of vote fraud.
Maersk Line Looking To Buy Hamburg Süd Maersk Line, the shipping arm of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moeller-Maersk, is looking to buy German peer Hamburg Süd, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Centennial Resource Development Buys Additional Energy Acerage for $855 Million Centennial Resource Development Inc. said Monday it would buy $855 million of energy acreage and assets, as it moves to expand its footprint in its current geographic area.
OPEC May Give Trump Energy Goals a Boost President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to make America energy independent. He may receive an unintended boost next week in the form of an oil production cut by OPEC, which could raise crude prices.
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Heard on the Street Politics and Markets: Won’t Get Fooled Again? Shocked both by June’s Brexit vote and November’s victory for Donald Trump, investors appear to have realized that paying lip service to political risk isn’t good enough.
The 10-Point: Gerard Baker on Trump’s Voter-Fraud Claim, Fidel Castro’s Legacy, Revamping Gap, and More A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal, from Editor in Chief Gerard Baker.
Trump vs. the White House Press Corps The briefing room contains 49 seats. Most go to the MSM with barely any to the dot-com world.
South Africa’s Zuma Under New Pressure Pressure rose Monday on embattled President Jacob Zuma, as a meeting of the African National Congress’s top-decision making committee went into overtime.
Standard Chartered Axes Jobs Standard Chartered is laying off hundreds of people working in corporate and institutional banking as it steps up its drive to cut costs.
Oil Prices Swing Ahead of Key OPEC Meeting Oil prices fluctuated between positive and negative as investors debated the possibility of a production cut at this week’s OPEC meeting.
Pick Up In Eurozone Lending May Not Be Enough for ECB Bank lending to eurozone businesses picked up momentum in October even as the pace of supply of money in the single currency area slowed, data from the European Central Bank showed.
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OECD Says Trump’s Policies Could Lift Global Growth U.S. and global economic growth would be boosted by increased spending and tax cuts promised by President-elect Donald Trump, but those gains would be lost if he pressed ahead with tariff increases that triggered retaliation, the OECD said.
Mechanical Watches: In Plain English Don’t know your chronograph from your chapter ring? Here’s a guide to answer all your mechanical watch queries.
YNAP Teams With Dubai Investor to Tap Mideast Online Market The growth potential for online sales of luxury goods is seen as strong in the Middle East, even as it slows elsewhere, prompting analysts to applaud the joint venture.
Marlboro Black Lures Back Millennial Smokers Philip Morris USA five years ago introduced Marlboro Black to appeal to millennials who don’t relate to the Marlboro Man. The lower-priced cigarette offers what the company calls a “bold, modern take” on Marlboro—think tattoos, black jeans and motorcycles instead of Stetsons, bluejeans and horses. It has done a lot to help Philip Morris USA with its millennial problem.
Energy Firms Step Up Business Investment U.S. oil and gas companies are slowly stepping up investment in wells and other industry building blocks for the first time in more than two years, offering a small boost to overall economic growth as the year ends.
How to Kill the Volcker Rule? Don’t Enforce It Big banks spent years railing against the so-called Volcker rule, which bars them from making wagers with their own money. Now, with the imminent arrival of the Trump administration, some banks and lawyers are eyeing a new way to defang the rule: Simply stop enforcing it.
Initial Report About SpaceX Explosion Imminent Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to give federal authorities a preliminary investigative report pinpointing fueling procedures as the most likely cause of a September unmanned rocket explosion.
Asian Shares Mostly Down on Skepticism About OPEC Deal Expectations that an Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries production deal was unraveling dominated Asian trade Monday, adding volatility to regional stocks and currencies.
A Touch of Asia in Spain This six-bedroom house at the foot of La Concha mountain in Marbella, Spain, combines modern Spanish architecture with traditional artifacts from Indonesia, Malaysia and China.
Apple iPhone With Curved Screen Could Come as Soon as Next Year An iPhone with a curved screen could be on store shelves as soon as next year, as Apple’s suppliers say they have been asked to increase output of thinner organic light emitting displays.
Zinc Soars to Nine-Year High Zinc prices shot up to a nine-year high in Asia trading, lifting the gain for 2016 past 39% and leading a metals rally driven by robust demand in China and Beijing’s steel-capacity clampdown.
‘Moana’ Another Holiday-Season Hit for Disney Walt Disney Co. has another holiday-season hit on its hands.
Heard on the Street China’s Debt-Laden Companies Take a Load Off—for Now If Chinese companies don’t take advantage of rising prices to rapidly pay down debt, more problems will be just around the corner.
Russian Campaign in Syria Exposes Defense Gaps A flotilla of Russian warships in the Mediterranean is providing a high-profile show of force in support of the Syrian regime. But the deployment has also thrown into sharp relief the limits of Moscow’s conventional military.
China’s New Agricultural Data Sow Seeds of Doubt China’s crop of agricultural data is growing, but the influential commodities player continues to face a stubborn problem: lack of trust in the data’s reliability.
Goldman Seeks $2 Billion for South Korean Asset Goldman Sachs Group is shopping one of South Korea’s biggest industrial-gas producers to prospective buyers in a deal that could fetch $2 billion.
Defense in Patz Case Puts Transcript in Play The retrial of Pedro Hernandez, accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979, has been unfolding much as the first one did. This time, though, defense attorneys have the transcript from the first trial to use.
France Flirts With a Free-Market Revolutionary Just as the rest of the world appears to be turning its back on globalization, French conservative voters have embraced an unabashed admirer of Margaret Thatcher who promises radical overhauls of the state, Simon Nixon writes.
François Fillon Wins France’s Conservative Primary François Fillon, a free market social conservative, won France’s center-right primary by a landslide, positioning him as the leading presidential candidate to take on National Front leader Marine Le Pen in next spring’s election.
Fiscal Hawk Emerges From Sarkozy’s Shadows By choosing François Fillon as their presidential candidate, the French center-right has opted for a mild-mannered conservative known for the alarm he has sounded about the country’s high public-debt levels.
Amazon Broadens Cloud Services as Big Companies Sign On Amazon.com has broadened its cloud-computing services to serve a growing list of big-company clients, but its challenge is to meet their needs without encroaching on the firms that are its partners in the business.
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