Airbnb, a home rental company, plans to shut down its domestic business in China, in a further sign of the internet decoupling between China and much of the rest of the world. Airbnb, which has operated in China since 2016, is retreating from the country after struggling to compete with local “superapps” that charge lower…

In the latest commercial from the virtual currency exchange Crypto.com, titled “Bravery Is a Process,” the star basketball player Joel Embiid walks through Philadelphia while Bill Self, his former college coach, lends the narration. “Even when our path didn’t make sense to everyone else, we kept going,” Mr. Self says in the ad, which made…

Americans are more worried about inflation than at any point since 1985, and that concern is quickly escalating, according to a new poll, a potential problem for Democrats and the White House ahead of the midterm elections in November. A Gallup poll released Tuesday showed that rising prices were the No. 1 economic concern for…

Americans built up trillions of dollars in savings during the pandemic. Now, with prices rising at their fastest pace in decades, they are tapping that stockpile to keep on spending. Consumer spending rose 0.9 percent in April, the Commerce Department said on Friday, as Americans shook off high prices to buy tickets for flights, sports…