BUSINESS NEWS
- Estée Lauder CFO on driving a turnaround led by consumer-first innovation
by Sheryl Estrada on November 19, 2025 at 12:21 pmAkhil Shrivastava discusses strategy and leadership lessons.
- Big 5 AI ‘hyperscalers’ have quadrupled their use of debt to fund operations, Bank of America says
by Jim Edwards on November 19, 2025 at 11:41 amAll five companies companies generate more than enough cash to cover their operations but the arrival of debt vehicles to fund AI has complicated the investment case for tech stocks.
- ‘A deadly confluence of wrong-way news’ is what’s causing the global market selloff, says top economist, and don’t expect it to get better anytime soon
by Eleanor Pringle on November 19, 2025 at 11:34 amHopes for an interest rate cut from the Fed are fading despite a global slowdown and a spike in the VIX.
- Navy Secretary warns workers can make more at Amazon instead of building America’s warships: ‘It’s hard to get that person to want to do that job’
by Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez on November 19, 2025 at 11:03 amThe industry contributes $37.3 billion to GDP, but has been outshined by China in recent years.
- How CEOs can stay clear-eyed during the stock market’s AI selloff
by Geoff Colvin on November 19, 2025 at 10:36 amAlso: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
- Nvidia’s earnings could answer the AI bubble question and upend global markets in moment of truth for Magnificent 7
by Jim Edwards on November 19, 2025 at 10:00 amA historic capex surge, thin AI revenues, and extreme index concentration leave investors one disappointment away from a broad‑based equity shock.
- Quantum computers could be powerful enough to crack Bitcoin sometime after 2030, CEO of Nvidia’s quantum partner says
by Jim Edwards on November 19, 2025 at 9:29 am“The threshold for such an event is coming closer to us year by year,” says Théau Peronnin.
- A tale of two CEO successions: Walmart’s clean break vs. Target’s much-criticized transition
by Phil Wahba on November 19, 2025 at 8:00 amBoth companies have new incoming CEOs, but Walmart's appointment has been better received by Wall Street.
- Younger customers are venturing back to real-world stores, says AS Watson CEO Malina Ngai: ‘They want to be able to touch the product’
by Angelica Ang on November 19, 2025 at 6:00 amAS Watson, which is nearing its 185th annivesary, has almost 17,000 outlets in 31 markets, including mainland China, Malaysia, Turkey and even Ukraine.
- How Malaysia shrugged off Trump’s tariffs, according to its finance minister: ‘We didn’t panic’
by David Austin on November 17, 2025 at 5:23 pm"We weren’t going out there and saying 'I’m going to reset my [growth] targets,'" Malaysia Finance Minister II Amir Hamzah Azizan explained.
