Ever since Richard Dickson took over as CEO in August 2023, the Gap’s results have looked like a textbook retail company recovery - sales have improved, margins expanded, and all of its brands gained...

The recent announcement that China approved Novo Nordisk's Wegovy is huge. Here's why: In a national survey conducted during 2015-2019 by China’s National Health Commission, more than half of the adult...

Birkenstock’s sales volumes far outpaced the broader shoe market in 2023, with a 20% gain compared to 4% overall. This year, management increased the full-year sales growth forecast from 17% to 20%....

From semiconductors and printed circuit boards to the glass in our cell phones, we use antimony every day. And the Pentagon needs antimony trisulfide as an essential component in hundreds of munition types....

Investors are excited by Apple's new AI strategy. But should they be? Google and Samsung have already launched 'AI smartphones,' and Microsoft has launched AI PCs. AI in both tech devices will be a game...

Last year’s projected healthcare spending growth rate of 7.5% outpaced GDP growth for the first time since the pandemic. As an aging population creates more demand for medical care, it opens up opportunities...

Silver has a dual character, valued both for its use as a financial asset and an industrial input. One of its main industrial uses is as a key ingredient in solar panels, and usage of the metal is expected...

Younger beer drinkers want beers that are zero-alcohol or low-alcohol, and that means the no-alcohol beer category is the only growth area for global brewers. The leader in this still-tiny category is...

The annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is always the biggest event-making cancer conference. And this year, the attention-grabber was AstraZeneca, as its lung and breast cancer...

All of the warehouse clubs have benefited from a surge in inflation that became noticeable in the U.S. in 2021, and which has since been very slow to subside. Costco is the oldest and most prominent of...