The Wall Street Journal: Europe offers U.K. an olive branch in effort to break Brexit impasse

Intercontinental Exchange Inc, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has made an offer to buy eBay Inc in a deal that could value the ecommerce company at more than $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday......»»

J.Crew Group Inc. has hired former Victoria’s Secret executive Jan Singer as its next chief executive, according to people familiar with the situation, in an effort to revitalize its namesake brand and reverse a long sales slump......»»

The nonprofit Wall Street Bound offers a boot camp for people interested in entering the financial world......»»

The European Union’s top trade official is trying to head off a trans-Atlantic trade war with offers of cooperation, as the White House weighs whether to impose new tariffs......»»

There is no timeline for when new tariffs — prospectively including levies as high as 100% on nearly all wine from Europe — might go into effect......»»

Regulators are taking steps to loosen the control that big U.S. exchanges exert over the flow of real-time stock prices to the public in an effort to lower costs for investors......»»

Juul Labs Inc. is shuffling its leadership ranks, appointing an interim chief financial officer and putting his predecessor in charge of the e-cigarette maker’s $1 billion restructuring effort......»»

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) has sold approximately half of its real-estate to Chicago-based private equity firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital LLC, the Wall Street Journal rep.....»»

Another record-setting session is shaping up into gains for European stocks on Friday, as investors returned from an extended holiday break......»»

Brazil’s accelerating deforestation is pressuring food makers, retailers, investors and commodity traders to shake up supply chains in an effort to push back on land-clearing and achieve environmental goals......»»

Britain’s new Parliament voted overwhelmingly Friday to back Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit accord, a significant step toward the country’s departure from the European Union on Jan. 31......»»

JPMorgan Chase & Co is combining its U.S. wealth-management operations for affluent clients and the Chase branch network's financial-advisory business into a new unit, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a memo......»»

California regulators temporarily banned insurers from refusing to renew home-insurance policies in certain wildfire-prone parts of the state in an effort to halt an insurance-availability crisis......»»

Saudi Arabia will push for an extension of oil production cuts through mid-2020 at a producers’ summit this week in an effort to prop up Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering share price, Persian Gulf officials said......»»

Asian stocks rose on Tuesday as an apparent olive branch from Beijing in trade talks with Washington added to other recent signs of progress, fuelling a rally in Wall Street's main benchmarks to record highs......»»

Reuters A federal regulator has opened up an inquiry into Google's partnership with the hospital system Ascension, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal f.....»»

The Trump administration is backing away from a plan to freeze tailpipe-emissions targets for new vehicles through 2025, say people familiar with the process......»»

Reuters Charles Schwab will soon offer fractional stock trades in an effort to bring in younger clients, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Fractional shares allow traders to own slivers of a stock, opening.....»»

Charles Schwab Corp. will let investors buy and sell fractions of shares in coming months as part of an effort to attract younger clients to its online brokerage platform......»»

Stocks in Europe and on Wall Street jumped about 1% on Tuesday on strong U.S. corporate results and a possible deal to avoid a disorderly British exit from the European Union, while oil prices fell as weak China data kindled global economic fears......»»