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Amazon.com Inc. is among the bidders for healthcare company Signify Health Inc., joining other heavy hitters vying in an auction for the home-health-services provider, according to people familiar with the matter. Signify is for sale in an auction that could value it at more than $8 billion, the people said. Bids are due around Labor …

Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook Courtesy of Sotheby’s Text size Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook will be offered at Sotheby’s contemporary art sales in New York this May. With an estimate of between US$9 million and US$12 …

Text size GameStop is increasingly focusing on e-commerce. Spencer Platt/Getty Images GameStop ‘s executive shake-up continued this week with the announced departure of Chief Merchandising Officer Chris Homeister. Expect more hiring as the retailer continues to focus on e-commerce. A person familiar with the matter told Barron’s that hiring talent from e-commerce and technology companies …

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley were quick to move large blocks of assets before other large banks that traded with Archegos Capital Management, as the scale of the hedge fund’s losses became apparent, according to people with knowledge of the transactions. The strategy helped limit the U.S. firms’ losses in last week’s epic …

Spotify Technology SA has launched a new digital tool that for the first time will let advertisers know how many people heard a given ad in a podcast, as the streaming giant continues an aggressive push into a rapidly growing business that has so far struggled with reliable data on listeners. The largest music-streaming platform …

The story has been corrected to reflect the full list of top ten contributors to returns in the past decade and over the past 12 months. The two stocks that contributed the most to 2019’s total stock-market returns also hold that position for the entire decade. While it’s fun to look at …

AmerisourceBergen CEO Steven Collis testified before Congress on May 8, 2018, alongside other drug company executives. Photo: Alex Brandon/Associated Press Updated Oct. 21, 2019 8:00 am ET CLEVELAND—Four drug companies have reached a settlement at the last minute to avoid a trial here seeking to blame them for fueling the opioid crisis, according to people …

Teen retailer Forever 21 Inc. plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as Sunday, according to people familiar with the matter, as slow sales, online rivals and changing consumer habits take a rising toll on many bricks-and-mortar chains. Retailers closed more stores from January to June—more than 7,000—than they did in all of 2018, according …

Illustration by Michael George Haddad Text size Stocks are poised to push higher as investors respond to Congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that raised expectations for an interest-rate cut at the end of the month. Powell will conclude two days of testimony on Thursday. He is scheduled to appear before the Senate …