Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Company Helped Shape Saudi Arabia’s Reform Movement

By DANNY HAKIM from NYT Business Day The government of Saudi Arabia, trying to diversify its economy and open up its society, called in the SCL Group, a secretive consulting firm, to help plot the kingdom’s reform plans. Read More

Disney Made Quick Work of ‘Roseanne.’ It’s Not Always So Easy.

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT Business Day In a world where immediate outrage is possible, corporations in trouble do best when they consider “the golden hour” of crisis response. But it’s not always a clear-cut decision. Read More

In a First for Germany, Hamburg Bans Diesel Engines. On 2 Roads.

By AMIE TSANG and CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE from NYT Business Day The move highlights growing opposition to diesel, as concerns have mounted over its health and environmental effects. Read More

Walmart Says It Will Pay for Its Workers to Earn College Degrees

By MICHAEL CORKERY from NYT Business Day The giant retailer will begin to subsidize tuition for its 1.4 million employees in the United States to study either business or supply chain management. The workers would pay $1 a day. Read More

Ambien Responds to Roseanne Barr: ‘Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect’

By CHRISTINE HAUSER from NYT Business Day The drug company responded after Ms. Barr said she had taken the sleep aid before sending the racist tweet that led to the cancellation of her show. Read More

‘Roseanne,’ the Reboot: A Timeline

By WILLIAM P. DAVIS and JACLYN PEISER from NYT Business Day It started with an attempt by ABC to reach viewers whom executives at the network felt they had ignored. It ended suddenly, after two months of big ratings and (mostly) welcome headlines. Read More

18 Hours and 45 Minutes: Longest Commercial Flight Returns to Service

By ZACH WICHTER from NYT Business Day Singapore Airlines hopes more efficient planes can make the route more economically viable than the last time it flew it, in 2013. Read More

Roseanne Barr Starts Storm With Racist Twitter Post About Ex-Obama Adviser

By JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business Day Ms. Barr cited “The Planet of the Apes” in discussing Valerie Jarrett, a black woman and former adviser to President Barack Obama. She then deleted the post, apologized and said she would quit Twitter. Read More

White House Moves Ahead With Tough Trade Measures on China

By ANA SWANSON from NYT Business Day The Trump administration said tariffs, investment restrictions and other measures would be announced in the coming weeks, ramping up pressure on China to make concessions in trade talks Read More

‘Diamonds Are Forever,’ and Made by Machine

By ELIZABETH PATON and VANESSA FRIEDMAN from NYT Business Day De Beers is getting into the lab-created diamond business with a new line of fashion jewelry and an aggressive pricing strategy. Read More

Why Starbucks’s Bias Training, Despite Skepticism, Is an Important Start

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN from NYT Business Day Starbucks is under fire for temporarily shutting 8,000 stores to train employees about bias. The effort won’t solve the problem, but it’s a good start. Read More

Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE

By SUI-LEE WEE from NYT Business Day The timing is likely a coincidence, experts say, but the moves have renewed questions from critics about President Trump’s potential conflict of interest. Read More

What Advertising History Says About the Future of Fake News

By AUSTAN GOOLSBEE from NYT Business Day Technological advances have made it easy to spread fake news. But after these fabrications become familiar, their danger is likely to recede, the economist Austan Goolsbee says. Read More

How Boston Is Trying to Close the Gender Pay Gap

By ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN from NYT Business Day Through pay-negotiation workshops and partnerships with more than 100 companies, the city is trying to help female workers match the salaries of male counterparts. Read More

The Highest-Paid C.E.O.s in 2017

By Unknown Author from NYT Business Day Here are 200 of the highest-paid chief executives in American business. Read More

U.S. News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules

By ADAM SATARIANO from NYT Business Day The move by several major news organizations illustrated that some companies would prefer to lose European readers than to risk being hit with stiff penalties. Read More

Want to Make Money Like a C.E.O.? Work for 275 Years

By DAVID GELLES from NYT Business Day For the first time, companies in the U.S. are disclosing how their C.E.O.’s compensation compares with the pay of employees. The results are eye-opening. Read More

Deutsche Bank to Cut 7,000 Jobs

By PRASHANT S. RAO from NYT Business Day The announcement is the latest sign of the lender’s curtailed ambition, and comes about a month after it said it would shrink its operations in the United States and Asia. Read More

Why Is Elon Musk Attacking the Media? We Explain. (Also, Give Us a Good Rating!)

By MATT STEVENS from NYT Business Day Mr. Musk and his company, Tesla, have had a rough couple of months resulting in several negative stories in the media. On Wednesday he vented on Twitter. Read More

Massachusetts Gains Foothold in Offshore Wind Power, Long Ignored in U.S.

By STANLEY REED and IVAN PENN from NYT Business Day The wind farms have increasingly become mainstream sources of power in Northern Europe, but the United States has largely not pursued the technology. Read More

Whites’ Unease Shadows the Politics of a More Diverse America

By EDUARDO PORTER from NYT Business Day As the country heads for a time when no group makes up a majority, the change may affect white attitudes in far more than racial and economic matters. Read More

Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Start-Up Nation.’ Is It Getting There?

By LIZ ALDERMAN from NYT Business Day France has quickly become one of the hottest destinations in Europe for technology investment, but it faces big challenges in its mission to become a leader. Read More

China Cuts Car Tariffs, in a Small Offering to U.S. on Trade

By KEITH BRADSHER from NYT Business Day The moves are likely to change little for the auto industry, though Chinese factories and German firms could benefit from slashing tariffs on parts. Read More

Want to See Your Baby? In China, It Can Cost You

By SUI-LEE WEE from NYT Business Day A hospital demanded that a woman pay her bills before she could see her newborn twins, illustrating a plight that many face in the Chinese medical system. Read More

Bankers Hate the Volcker Rule. Now, It Could Be Watered Down.

By EMILY FLITTER and ALAN RAPPEPORT from NYT Business Day Softening the rule, which prohibits banks from making speculative but profitable wagers, is part of the White House’s deregulatory push. Read More

An Artless Negotiation From the President Who Penned ‘The Art of the Deal’

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN from NYT Business Day President Trump’s negotiating playbook is by now pretty obvious: Make big demands, thump your chest and claim victory. But some of his talk on China has a whiff of desperation. Read More

Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions

By ADAM LIPTAK from NYT Business Day The vote was 5 to 4, with the court’s more conservative justices in the majority. The court’s decision could affect some 25 million employment contracts. Read More

Trump’s Charm and Threats Aren’t Working on China. Here’s Why.

By KEITH BRADSHER from NYT Business Day President Trump threatened tariffs on $150 billion in goods, then tried conciliation. Beijing’s response either way: Rebuff the offers and avoid specific pledges. Read More

Trump Defends Administration’s Trade Strategy With China

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ALAN RAPPEPORT from NYT Business Day The president praised his approach, and criticized Democrats, in a series of tweets on Monday following a three-day negotiation session that ended with little clarity. Read More

China May Be Winning the Trade War: DealBook Briefing

By Unknown Author from NYT Business Day The Trump administration says that it’s holding off on tariffs to aid talks. But critics worry that Beijing now has the advantage. Read More

In Photo, a ‘Young’ China Sees an Aging U.S. in Retreat

By RAYMOND ZHONG from NYT Business Day Social media users noticed a distinct age gap between the Chinese delegates and the American lawmakers who met them in Washington. Read More

A New Policy at Starbucks: People Can Sit Without Buying Anything

By JACEY FORTIN from NYT Business Day Weeks after two black men were arrested at a cafe in Philadelphia, the company said people can sit down or use the restroom without making a purchase. Read More

Does Hollywood Need a PG-15 Rating?

By BROOKS BARNES from NYT Business Day A new study suggests that parents think 13 years old is too young to see intense gun violence in movies, which has been rising for some time. Read More

When the President Takes On Amazon, Nobody Wins

By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN from NYT Business Day Economists agree on one thing: Politicians shouldn’t attack specific companies based on their own whims or preferences Read More

Booming Savannah Port Sees Trade Tensions as Just a Hiccup

By PATRICIA COHEN and NATALIE KITROEFF from NYT Business Day At the nation’s fourth-busiest gateway, local confidence over its potential outweighs any anxiety over the threat of tariffs. Read More

The Last Days of Time Inc.

By SRIDHAR PAPPU and JAY STOWE from NYT Business Day An oral history of how the pre-eminent media organization of the 20th century ended up on the scrap heap. Read More

Tech Hit This Small Town Hard. Now, Locals Hope It Will Fuel a Revival.

By PRASHANT S. RAO from NYT Business Day Holywell, a town in Wales with dozens of local retailers, has struggled with the impacts of online shopping. It is applying technology to try and keep its shops open. Read More

Cadillac Makes Beautiful Cars. Too Bad Americans Want S.U.V.s.

By LAWRENCE ULRICH from NYT Business Day America’s premier luxury car brand has parted ways with its president and finds itself reckoning with an uncomfortable truth: Most people don’t want cars anymore. Read More

Show Starring Avenatti and Scaramucci Is Being Pitched to Television Executives

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMAN from NYT Business Day The men are fixtures on cable news — Mr. Avenatti, the lawyer for a pornographic actress suing the president, as Mr. Trump’s antagonist, and Mr. Scaramucci as the president’s supporter. Read More

Shari Redstone Prevails Over CBS in Delaware Court Ruling: DealBook Briefing

By Unknown Author from NYT Business Day A Delaware judge blocked CBS’s attempt to water down Ms. Redstone’s power over the broadcaster. Read More

Lachlan Murdoch Named Head of Family’s Shrinking TV Empire

By BROOKS BARNES from NYT Business Day Being named chief executive and chairman cements Mr. Murdoch, 46, as the successor to his father, Rupert Murdoch. No mention was made of Lachlan’s brother, James, the current C.E.O. of 21st Century Fox. Read More

A Battle for Control of CBS, With Far-Reaching Consequences

By JAMES B. STEWART from NYT Business Day No matter who wins in the fight over the proposed reunion of CBS and Viacom, both companies will be profoundly affected and the media landscape will be transformed. Read More

Why Is the U.S. Afraid of China’s Rise?

By ERICA BERENSTEIN from NYT Business Day Rapid, export-led development lifted China’s economy. But many of the tactics China has used to develop its industries worry its trading partners. Read More

ABC Plays Up ‘Roseanne’ and Product Placement at Annual Presentation

By JOHN KOBLIN and SAPNA MAHESHWARI from NYT Business Day The network lets advertisers know they are welcome to get in on the act during its presentation in New York. Read More

On Trade, the U.S. and China Consider the Unthinkable: Breaking Up

By KEITH BRADSHER from NYT Business Day Complete disengagement is impossible, but both Washington and Beijing envision a day when they don’t need each other as much to power their economies. Read More

Novartis’s Top Lawyer is Out After Payments to Michael Cohen

By PRASHANT S. RAO and KATIE THOMAS from NYT Business Day The Swiss pharmaceutical giant said Felix R. Ehrat would retire, after the company said this month it had made payments to President Trump’s personal lawyer. Read More

A New Model for Financing Nonprofits

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN from NYT Business Day A number of boldfaced names are backing a novel new approach to philanthropy that makes more money available and creates more accountability. Read More

G.O.P. Insists Making Poor People Work Lifts Them Up. Where’s the Proof?

By EDUARDO PORTER from NYT Business Day President Trump and congressional Republicans are reviving an enduring party view that tying work requirements to antipoverty programs benefits those in need. There’s little evidence that’s so. Read More

Seattle Votes on Large-Company Tax, and Talks in Taxing Chinese Goods

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Business Day Royal Dutch Shell and Eny of Italy are expected to go on trial on Monday on corruption charges, and data on April’s retail sales will be released. Read More

All About ZTE, the Chinese Sanctions Breaker That Trump Wants to Help

By PAUL MOZUR from NYT Business Day The U.S. punishment of one of China’s biggest electronics companies and the American president’s surprise offer come at a complicated time. Read More