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Toyota Motor Corp. wants to meet with critics who say it is behind rivals in the race for greener cars, nearly a year after the auto maker pledged to spend billions of dollars expanding its electric-vehicle lineup.

E.l.f. Beauty Inc., known for selling cheap-but-trendy makeup in drugstores, raised prices and rolled out higher-end products this spring when fast-rising costs threatened profits.

For the giants of ocean trade, big ships aren't enough anymore; they need planes, too.

Tesla Inc. is pausing its plans to make battery cells in Germany as it looks at qualifying for U.S. electric vehicle and battery manufacturing tax credits, people familiar with the matter said.

Starbucks Corp. interim chief executive Howard Schultz outlined a wide-ranging revamp of the coffee chain on Tuesday, ranging from cafe upgrades to expanded employee benefits, which he said is necessary to put the company on track for a turnaround by 2024.

Ernst & Young's leaders fired the starting gun Thursday on a monthslong plan to split its consulting and auditing businesses, in a radical move that will generate windfalls for the firm's partners and could upend the business model for accounting firms.

More Americans are opting to buy luxury vehicles than ever before, a shift fueled by cash-rich buyers who were able to bank savings during the pandemic and growing wealth among shoppers in the upper-income brackets.

Power prices surged, European currencies hit multidecade lows and governments scrambled to contain the economic hit after Russia cut its main natural-gas pipeline to Europe.

U.S. restrictions on sales of Nvidia Corp.'s high-end processors to China throw a wrench in Beijing's ambitions to lead in artificial intelligence, as Chinese officials accused the U.S. of monopolizing advanced technologies.

Retired Arkansas accountant Dora Jane Flesher wanted a postpandemic adventure off the beaten track. In Saudi Arabia she was mesmerized by ancient tombs carved into sandstone outcroppings in Al-Ula. She was less impressed by a museum featuring a collection of old TVs and touch-tone phones plus rocks from every U.S. state.