Finance

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Mind Your Ks and Qs!

For any business journalist—even if you don’t focus on finance—a public company’s 10-Ks (financial reports for the year) and 10-Qs (quarterly earnings reports) filed with

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Term to know: Shrinkflation

Stories about inflation are not just front-page news, but every-page news. From housing to transportation to retail, and everything in between, consumers and reporters alike

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Beginner’s guide to “burn rate”

Burn rate is one of those important metrics that shareholders, CEOs, investors, and others use to evaluate how well a company – particularly a start-up

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When corporations ‘merge’

The big business news of the day (so far, at least) is Microsoft’s near-$70 billion acquisition of video-game maker Activision. As Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michael J.

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