(Reuters) - Big-name retailers such as Walmart ( WMT ) are increasingly using analytics to blunt the impact of one of the most unpredictable performance variables of shopping: weather. Weather data, once used strictly for inventory planning, is now helping retailers localize advertising and decide when to discount seasonal items such as sweaters. Walmart ( WMT ), whose inventory planning...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iowa farmer Bob Hemesath is worried that U.S. agriculture will pay dearly if Donald Trump wins Tuesday's presidential election and makes good on a vow to swiftly impose a 60% tariff on Chinese goods and at least a 10% levy on all other imports. It could be a much worse rerun of the Republican former president's 2018-2019...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants - Meta's Facebook and Nvidia ( NVDA ) - to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases that could make it harder for private litigants to hold companies to account. After a trio of Supreme Court rulings in June that weakened federal...

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Hecla Mining ( HL ) on Monday named Rob Krcmarov as its chief executive officer, effective Nov. 7. ...