Amazon.com Inc might soon be filling online orders from the kinds of shopping centers it has helped destroy. The e-commerce giant, according to the Wall Street Journal, is in talks with mall operator Simon Property Group Inc about setting up fulfillment centres in spaces currently or formerly occupied by JC Penney and Sears, two once-mighty department stores that have filed ...

Covid-19 may have left roads around the globe barren of cars, but it hasn’t stopped China from claiming leadership over the world of navigation and digital mapping. Watch out, GPS. Big plans are in the making. China has launched the final leg of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite system, or BDS, completing the build-out of a network that competes with America’s ...

Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation to extend the Federal Reserve’s mandate and require the central bank to address racial injustice. So long as Republicans have a Senate majority, the measure is unlikely to pass — but that arithmetic might change next year. Does it make sense to instruct the Fed to “exercise all duties and functions in a manner ...