The supply chain has huffed and puffed, but it hasn’t knocked industrial demand down — at least not yet. A dangerous combination of logistics logjams, widespread parts shortages, hiring difficulties and rising inflation had threatened to make this earnings season a particularly ugly one for the manufacturing sector. Those pressures are real; they’re taking a bite out of margins and ...

Intel Corp’s future is looking a bit grim. The chipmaker posted worse-than-expected sales results with adjusted revenue of $18.1 billion in the quarter ended in September, up 5% compared with the prior year, and below the $18.24 billion median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. While earnings for the quarter came in above estimates, that was overshadowed by a disappointing ...

AT&T Inc’s turnaround — an exacting mission that has involved selling nearly everything acquired under its former chief executive officer — is finally showing signs of working. But this long-awaited progress on the business front comes as the Dallas-based wireless giant’s public image takes a bruising. It has come to be seen by some as the corporate villain behind both ...