A projection in Finland says Alexander Stubb wins the first round of the presidential election to set up a Feb 11 runoff

At BK, having it you’re way now comes with a crown. Burger King employees have been ordered to tell customers “You rule” and to offer them a cardboard crown as a gesture of thanks for ordering a whopper or anything else on the menu. The Florida-based fast food chain is planning to send monitors to…

There’s a shift underway in Asia that’s reverberating through global financial markets. Japan’s stock market, overlooked by investors for decades, is making a furious comeback. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index is edging closer to the record it set on Dec. 29, 1989, which effectively marked the peak of Japan’s economic ascendancy before a collapse that…

Once that’s done, though, what isn’t important, in the larger scheme of things, is timing market peaks and troughs. During the great financial crisis, for example, I spent an inordinate amount of time as a journalist speaking with so-called experts about when they thought the stock market would rise or fall. In retrospect, I believe…

DETROIT — More than 4,700 auto dealerships across the United States urged President Joe Biden in a letter Thursday to halt the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to enforce stricter vehicle-pollution standards. The missive comes just weeks before the agency’s expected ruling on its tailpipe-emissions proposal, which addresses both climate change and pollutants that are harmful…

In-N-Out Burger’s only location in Oakland is closing after the cherished fast-food joint decided it could no longer risk the safety of fed-up workers and patrons in the city plagued by recent crime. The location will shut its doors in March — despite the burger spot turning a profit — because of the constant crime…