Bloomberg Estee Lauder Cos plans to hire more black employees, buy more from black-owned businesses and expand diversity training programs after employees raised concerns about race relations within the company. Top executives at one of the world’s largest cosmetics businesses said they “stand in solidarity with our black employees, black consumers and black communities and firmly believe black lives matter,” …

Bloomberg Gadget junkies soon won’t need an appointment to shop at Best Buy Co anymore. Starting from June 15, the nation’s biggest consumer-electronics retailer will allow a limited number of shoppers inside most of its stores, moving past an appointment-only model that it had instituted in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The retailer will bring back about 9,000 employees …

Bloomberg Stocks in Europe advanced along with US equity-index futures after a mixed session in Asia Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s next move on monetary policy. The dollar headed for a three-month low against a basket of peers. Financial services and retailers led a broad advance in the Stoxx Europe 600 index. S&P 500 futures rose after the …