Remy Cointreau SA (RCO.FR) said Friday that fiscal first-quarter sales rose despite unfavorable currency effects. The French spirits company said first-quarter organic sales rose 5.9% to 241.5 million euros ($280.8 million). Reported sales grew 0.5%, the company said. Sales in the House of Remy Martin grew 11% on an organic basis, the company said. Remy

Unilever PLC (ULVR.LN) said Friday that it has completed the first 3 billion-euro ($3.9 billion) tranche of its previously announced share-buyback program and will start the second tranche on July 20. In April, the Anglo-Dutch consumer products company said it will buy back shares worth up to EUR6 billion and expects to complete the programmer

Flying on Air France to Paris this summer could be a fantastic idea, setting you up to enjoy the usual sights and cuisine, as well as the chance to score souvenirs that celebrate the World Cup–winning French soccer squad. However, buying the parent company’s shares doesn’t sound like that great of an idea. While shares

How do stock-market investors even begin to calculate the impact of an entirely different global political hierarchy, a system where decades-old alliances appear to have fallen by the wayside and former allies begin to look more like competitors and rivals? This is the extreme worst-case scenario that Wall Street analysts have begun to consider over

A lawsuit against a student loan giant can proceed, a judge ruled last week, in a decision that could make student-loan companies more vulnerable to lawsuits alleging they mislead borrowers. The judge denied Navient’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois last year, alleging the company and its corporate predecessor, Sallie

Frequent flyers on Southwest LUV, -0.22%   now have a new option when paying for their flights. Chase JPM, -1.47%  and Southwest Airlines on Thursday announced a new credit card, the Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority Credit Card. This comes in addition to the Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus card and the Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier card.

Bitcoin showed further resilience Thursday, building on sharp gains made earlier in the week. Often in the past, sharp moves higher in the price of the No. 1 digital currency have been followed by pullbacks, or at the least, consolidation. This time, bitcoin has recorded five consecutive winning days and the “price drift,” when an

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE For years now, Apple has been on a relentless push to become the first company to reach $1 trillion in market capitalization. The valuation crown would belong to the tech darling. Just a matter of time. Then came Amazon. See full story. Stock investors confront the once unthinkable: a new world order

Getty Images/ABC via Page Six Jeanine Pirro and Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg and Jeanine Pirro got into an explosive argument backstage at “The View” on Thursday — after an intense on-the-air exchange got even more heated behind-the-scenes, according to sources. The confrontation ended with liberal Goldberg allegedly shouting, “F—k you, get the f—k out!” at