Новости за 18.11.2016

Volkswagen is expected to announce a sweeping restructuring of its embattled VW passenger car brand that includes up to 30,000 job cuts over the next five years.

Amazon.com Inc., has invested billions of dollars to build a logistics network spanning India, home to a fast-growing but challenging e-commerce market that should be worth more than $125 billion in the next eight years.

Chinese property is losing its fizz again—and commodities bulls should be on guard.

The United Nations’ top human rights envoy condemned Australia’s system of offshore detention for asylum seekers as “cruel, inhuman and degrading.”

For an American theater producer who helped popularize the immersive-theater experience in the U.S., working in the Middle Kingdom on a Chinese-language production makes him feel at home.

Three years ago, Amazon’s India website didn’t exist. Now, the company is moving within striking distance of India's homegrown e-commerce champion Flipkart. The Wall Street Journal looks at how it got there.

Puerto Rico is expecting about 1,000 fewer babies to be born this year than originally forecast, due in part to the Zika virus, a government official said Thursday.

According to official guidelines from India’s central bank, there are not many options for the NRI who needs to exchange notes by the Dec. 30 deadline.

Trump’s victory and anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe have boosted opponents of the German chancellor’s refugee policy. She also faces mounting anger over security, stagnating wages and sentiment that the political, business and media elite are exploiting the common man.

Coca-Cola reached a definitive agreement to divest its bottling stakes in China for roughly $1 billion, part of broader strategy to focus on its more profitable concentrate-making business.

An internal Rio Tinto investigation raised questions about whether company executives followed rules for paying people close to government officials in foreign countries, a finding that helped lead to the dismissal of two top officials this week.

Shareholders of Tesla and SolarCity approved Tesla’s $2.1 billion all-stock offer to merge and create one company headed by Elon Musk that would sell emissions-free cars and solar panels that help power them.

Amazon.com is on the verge of a massive global rollout of its streaming video service, people familiar with the matter said, taking direct aim at rival Netflix Inc.

A revolving door of important people have been meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team at Trump Tower this week. WSJ's Damian Paletta spent a long day observing the commotion in the skyscraper's lobby. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

For those already anxious about Britain’s departure from the EU, the U.S. election sharply increases uncertainty as the U.K. casts itself adrift from the European bloc. Others expect Mr. Trump will ease the pathway out.

We are the world’s oldest democracy, we are good people, and we’ve been through shocks before.

The lesson the party is learning from its loss is that it didn’t spend and regulate enough.

Salesforce.com said Thursday revenue rose 25% on rising sales in its subscription and support segment as the company boosted its full-year sales target.

New enrollments vastly exceed estimates, and states are on the hook.

The left is already teeing this up as a daily target. Answer: liquidate.

Impertinent question: Who’s been in charge the last eight years?

Sarah Josepha Hale saw the holiday as a way to bring together a nation divided over slavery.

The stock market senses a coming sugar high from tax cuts, but watch out for a destructive trade war.

‘So, Eddie, you have a new intern for the House Republican Conference: Hillary Rodham.’