What's News: Business & Finance -- WSJ
February 11 2019 - 3:02AM
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print edition of The Wall Street Journal (February 11, 2019).
Makers of household staples from diapers to toilet paper are set
to raise prices again this year, hoping to offset higher commodity
costs and boost profits.
Home insurers in California looking to reduce wildfire risk are
canceling some policies, refusing to sell new ones in some areas
and applying for rate increases.
A number of technical signals analysts use to gauge the health
of the stock market have flipped to positive from negative.
Soaring palladium prices are driving rising thefts of automotive
catalytic converters, which contain the white precious metal.
Engineering and regulatory hitches are expected to delay safety
fixes covering hundreds of Boeing jets.
A new activist hedge fund launched by two industry veterans is
altering the largely white, male profile of the sector's upper
ranks.
Nine West reached a deal that clears a path out of bankruptcy
and ends a contest over grants of legal immunity to owner
Sycamore.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 11, 2019 02:47 ET (07:47 GMT)
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