Новости за 11.08.2016

Watch a film clip from "Florence Foster Jenkins," starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg. Photo: Paramount Pictures

Raymond P. Niro, one of the country's most feared and influential patent litigators, died Monday at the age of 73.

An increase in biotech stocks complicates deals and raises risks for would-be acquirers.

Try your hand at this week's Wall Street Journal math puzzle.

For the first time in this election cycle, most economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal believe uncertainty from the coming election is crimping economic activity.

Alibaba said it would continue to step up its investments after reporting a better-than-expected surge in revenue.

Markets are pricing no upward move in interest rates for the next five years, meaning U.K. bond yields will likely stay low.

Hickory, N.C., is still suffering from the aftershocks of Chinese imports that left thousands of furniture workers jobless. Donald Trump has tapped into potent anti-free-trade sentiment on the campaign trail. Video: Madeline Marshall/WSJ. Photo: Mike Belleme for The Wall Street Journal

Hickory, N.C., is still suffering from the aftershocks of Chinese imports that left thousands of furniture workers jobless. Donald Trump has tapped into potent anti-free-trade sentiment on the campaign trail. Video: Madeline Marshall/WSJ. Photo: Mike Belleme for The Wall Street Journal

Watch a film clip from "Anthropoid," starring Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy and Detlef Bothe. Photo: Bleecker Street

The band's 12th album is due out Oct. 7.

Donald Trump said he would stick with his unconventional campaigning style, appearing to shrug off calls by Republican allies for a more decorous, policy based run, and said that if he falls short in November he can return to a "very good way of life."

The "Daily Show" host tackled the GOP nominee's latest controversial remarks on Wednesday's episode.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed deficit spending to fund a broad overhaul of U.S. infrastructure, a significant departure from Republican orthodoxy that in recent years has prioritized reducing the federal budget deficit and criticized growth in the national debt.

It is a long, long way from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in Wellington to its peers in Washington, Frankfurt, Tokyo and London. But oceans are no barrier to the magnetic pull of ultralow rates in global markets.

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits fell slightly last week, another sign of a firming labor market.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will release her 2015 tax returns “in the coming days,” and as soon as Friday, a person close to Mrs. Clinton said Thursday--a move meant, in part, to put pressure on opponent Donald Trump.

Ukraine’s president put his country’s forces on combat alert Thursday as Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed stepped-up security measures in the annexed territory of Crimea, escalating a crisis around the Black Sea peninsula.

Arianna Huffington, who co-founded the Huffington Post 11 years ago and built it into one of the largest digital media outlets in the U.S., will step down as president and editor-in-chief in the coming weeks. She’ll instead focus on her health-and-wellness startup, Thrive Global.

Amid a wave of criticism and high-profile withdrawals from the event, golf tees off at the Rio Olympics on Thursday for the first time since 1904 in hopes its inclusion will help grow the sport worldwide. Photo: Getty Images.

In Baghdad, a city of some seven million people, the heat-addled days are aggravated by Iraq’s decrepit electrical system, which cuts out without warning dozens of times a day.

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

'I would love to get back into [Hopper's] shoes,' says the actor of a possible season 2.

From the 1740s to the 1940s, the Livingston family built some 40 homes along a 30-mile stretch of the Hudson River. Many of them remain private homes that have attracted high-profile buyers. Photo: Dorothy Hong for The Wall Street Journal

Hillary Clinton will dial up a line of attack on Donald Trump’s economic proposals in a Thursday speech that casts his agenda as a crony giveaway that erodes his populist appeal.