Health-care sector stalwarts may be right in thinking that the joint venture between Amazon.com Inc., JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. poses no near-term existential threat. It will likely be years before the initiative develops the potential to have a meaningful impact on the industry’s behemoths, particularly insurers. But things are happening elsewhere in the meantime. Employers ...

For Samsung Electronics Co, the answer was 180 trillion won ($161 billion). For Apple Inc. it was $350 billion. The question was: How much are you going to contribute to your home economy? But for the smartphone giants’ finance teams, it might just as well have been – what’s the biggest number you can rustle up to impress politicians? Samsung ...

The manner in which Elon Musk disclosed that he was “considering taking Tesla private” shows why this would be the best possible outcome for all involved. The stock jumped 4 percent on Musk’s tweet, on top of an existing rally that had taken hold 30 minutes earlier on a Financial Times report that Saudi Arabia had bought stock in the ...