The Wall Street JournalMore from The Wall Street JournalChemicals & EnergyThe Shale Revolution's Staggering Impact in Just One Word: PlasticsWhen new parents in Rio de Janeiro buy baby food in plastic containers, they are bringing home a little piece of the U.S. shale revolution.June 29, 2017ApparelAmazon's New Wardrobe Service Is Latest Threat for Apparel StoresAmazon.com Inc. is giving shoppers another reason not to visit stores. The online giant is rolling out a free service to let its Prime members try on clothes at home, its latest attempt to crack into the fashion world.June 27, 2017All LogisticsUPS to Add Delivery Surcharges for Black Friday, Christmas OrdersUnited Parcel Service Inc. plans to charge retailers extra fees to deliver packages during the busiest weeks before Christmas, creating a new challenge for an industry already coping with a shift away from traditional stores.June 26, 2017Regulation & ComplianceExports to Mexico Fall as Uncertainty Over Nafta LingersFriction between the U.S. and Mexico over trade is starting to cut into sales for U.S. farmers and agricultural companies, adding uncertainty for an industry struggling with low commodity prices and excess supply.June 22, 2017ApparelHow Zara Is Defying a Broad Retail SlumpMadrid - what retail crisis? Amid a major retrenchment by American companies such as Gap Inc., J. Crew Group Inc. and Nordstrom Inc., one player continues to defy gravity: Zara. And the rapid-fire design-and-production system that has allowed the Spanish giant to outpace rivals is now giving it a powerful platform to succeed online, an outlet that has confounded its lumbering rivals.June 21, 2017SC Finance & Revenue ManagementWhen Currencies Fall, Export Growth Is Supposed to Follow - Until NowFor decades, economics textbooks argued that suddenly weaker currencies are a boon to growth, because they make a country's exports more competitive or profitable on the global stage, which in turn boosts domestic production and employment. What if that theory no longer holds?June 20, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementTotal Eclipse: Oil Giant Sees Its Future in ElectricityFrance's Total SA, one of the world's largest oil companies, sent its top executives to Silicon Valley last summer, where they met with tech investors and futurists. At Tesla Inc.'s Bay Area factory, a Total executive tweeted a photo of a gleaming, red Model S - an electric car that burns no oil products at all.June 19, 2017Regulation & ComplianceStates Tell EPA They'll Fight Should U.S. Relax Vehicle Emissions RulesMore than a dozen state attorneys general wrote to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency vowing a legal fight to block regulators from easing vehicle-emissions standards, the latest broadside in a battle over the Trump administration's move to reopen a review of the regulations.June 15, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementBoeing Chief Says Overseas Plants Won't Hit U.S. JobsBoeing Co. is moving some work completing aircraft to China and other overseas markets but doesn't expect this to affect its U.S. manufacturing workforce, said the chief executive of the world's largest aerospace company.June 13, 2017Regulation & ComplianceFederal Regulators to Update Autonomous Vehicle GuidelinesTransportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the Trump administration is navigating slippery ground in trying to regulate autonomous-vehicle creation - saying federal regulators need to coordinate a "patchwork" of state rules attempting to govern a technology that is being developed so fast that the public can't understand it.June 9, 2017Previous PagePage 16 of 20Next Page
