AT&T Chief Randall Stephenson said he expects some divisions’ profitability to improve next year as the telecom digests its record-setting acquisition of Time Warner

The board of Nielsen Holdings Plc. said Wednesday that it is open to reviewing more strategic options for the company amid activist pressure to either sell or spin off parts of it.

Parallels between Shari Redstone’s victory at CBS and her victory at Viacom in 2016 are helpful for thinking about CBS’s future.

Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO priced its U.S. initial public offering near the bottom of its indicative price range, placing a $6.42 billion valuation on the Shanghai-based company that has billed itself as an emerging rival to Tesla.

The European Parliament voted in favor of sanctioning Hungary, invoking rarely used powers that mark the culmination of an extraordinary clash between Brussels and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. 70

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sharply condemned recent anti-immigration protests in Eastern Germany, stepping into a swelling debate about whether all opposition to migration should be labeled as extremist. 85

Vladimir Putin said the two Russians accused by the U.K. of poisoning a former spy were civilians and indicated they would tell their version of events that led to the largest-ever collective expulsion of Russian diplomats from the West. 53

Pope Francis has called a global meeting of Catholic bishops to discuss how to prevent sex abuse, an unprecedented move and a sign that the pontiff is trying to retake the initiative on an issue that has thrown his pontificate into crisis. 103