Apple Inc. is pulling back on buying corporate bonds with its overseas cash as it prepares to bring the money home to the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the matter. About $157 billion of Apple's $285 billion in cash, mostly held overseas, is invested in corporate debt, making it a leading
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The Internal Revenue Service's processes for assigning Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers don't always manage to identify fraudulent or incomplete applications, according to a new report. The report, from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, estimated the IRS erroneously
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Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germany's prospective coalition parties to compromise, pointing to turbulence in global stock markets as adding urgency to talks to end the country's political impasse. After more than four weeks of government negotiations between her Christian Democrat-led bloc
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Apple Inc.'s new HomePod speaker was praised by early reviewers for its audio quality but panned for its integration with the company's Siri digital assistant. The company's latest hardware product arrives for pre-order customers and in stores on Friday, a late entrant in the smart speaker market led by
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Vistara, the Indian affiliate of Singapore Airlines Ltd., is in talks with Airbus SE and Boeing Co. to buy jets worth as much as $8.5 billion as the carrier seeks to tap India's growing middle class, according to people familiar with the plans. Vistara, a joint venture with majority owner Tata Group, is seeking to
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