Equipment Leasing Small Business News + More Flying Internationally? No More Free Lunch + MORE 12/26/2016

Brazilian oil company Petrobras plans to request part of the record anticorruption settlement that construction company Odebrecht signed earlier this week with Brazilian, U.S. and Swiss authorities.

When strikes were still considered a threat to the U.S. economy, Bill Usery was the man often called on to mediate. Mr. Usery died Dec. 10—11 days shy of his 93rd birthday.

Happy customers are a core component of a healthy, profitable company.

Free food and drinks on long-haul flights have been one of the last perks to survive decades of airline cost-cutting. Now some budget carriers are charging—and traditional carriers may not be far behind.

American fast-food chains have become an unlikely source of female employment and empowerment in India, a country where traditionally most women are kept from working outside the home.

Sam Brownback, the Kansas governor whose tax cuts brought him political turmoil, recurring budget holes and sparse evidence of economic success, has a message for President-elect Donald Trump: Do what I did.

The race to offer supercheap flights across the Atlantic is heating up, as the parent company of British Airways became the latest full-service airline to launch its own low-price offering to fight back against the budget carriers that have invaded the lucrative market.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Jason D. Greenblatt, the Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, as special representative for international negotiations.

Africa’s biggest company is challenging the world’s largest video-on-demand service in the race to lure African eyeballs—and wallets.

A spate of data out of Japan, after a recent upbeat economic assessment by the country’s central bank, highlights this week’s calendar. Also, a peek at home sales in the U.S. for November will offer early clues on how the rise in interest rates is affecting the housing market and U.S. economy.

There is no better use for spare time than turning it into spare money.

Online shopping makes it simpler to buy gifts, but cookies, browsing histories and shared accounts make it harder to hide them; what Siri has to say about Santa Claus