Do you know the story of Patty McCord, Netflix’s original human relations chief? It’s legendary, and worth recounting in the wake of Wall Street Journal story on the company’s culture. McCord was one of Netflix Inc.’s earliest employees. She was chief executive Reed Hastings’s neighbour in Santa Cruz, California, and the two of them often carpooled to work. In 2004, ...

Bloomberg US stocks rose amid deal news, as major averages pared losses after a brutal month of selling. The dollar advanced versus the euro as political uncertainty hit Germany, while Treasuries edged lower. The S&P 500 headed for just its sixth advance in October and remains on track for its worst month since 2010. The Nasdaq indexes outperformed after IBM’s ...

Bloomberg Cboe Global Markets Inc. is looking to shake up stock-market pricing when it starts handling shares of Polish, Hungarian and Czech companies next month in a move breaking up near-monopolies among eastern Europe’s largest exchanges. Cboe, the largest share-trading platform in western Europe since the acquisition of Bats Global Markets in 2017, has been meeting local brokerages in the ...