The industrial sector is just a leadership shakeup away from having one of the highest rates of female chief executive officers in the S&P 500. Before you get too excited, the numbers are still small: There are 69 industrial companies on the benchmark index and as of the beginning of the year, four of them had female CEOs, according ...

  The timing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proposed trip to Taiwan puts President Joe Biden in a bind. Having drawn threats and condemnation from Beijing, the visit risks undermining any fruits of a planned call between Biden and China’s Xi Jinping. For Pelosi to postpone or cancel, though, would leave the impression of a US administration backing down in ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is done dabbling in healthcare. With its proposed $3.49 billion purchase of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc, the e-commerce giant is taking its biggest step yet into an industry that accounts for about one-fifth of the US economy. The deal will give Amazon relationships with hundreds of thousands of patients and their employers as well ...