Hidden Valley Ranch dressing may be a victim of this summer’s salad scare

In brief Business leaders are used to scanning the horizon for new competitors, taking a microscope to their operations to uncover inefficiencies, and seeking ways to get the most from their people. But making business model change real requires a whole new level of acuity. CEOs need to be constantly awake to impending disruptions—including novel…

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued final regulations this week on Section 1035 exchanges for life insurance contracts, eliminating a number of tax gotchas from regulations issued in 2019 that also affected corporate reorganizations and death benefits for survivors. Processing Content A 1035 exchange allows taxpayers to swap out an existing life…

Meta’s spending on AI is ramping, and investors want proof that the company can make serious money in areas other than advertising.

Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young is tying a dramatic improvement in its latest audit inspection results to a multiyear investment in technology, among other changes. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s 2025 inspection of EY found Part I.A deficiencies, which indicate significant shortcomings, in only 5% of the audits it inspected, down from 28%…

Couples often treat prenuptial agreements as something to worry about only if a marriage ends, but many of the most useful decisions happen long before that possibility ever arises. The process can bring financial expectations, family responsibilities and future planning into the open while both people are still working toward the same goals. In this…

There is no sugarcoating it: The timing on my Wingstop (WING +9.47%) purchases hasn’t been great. I’ve been buying shares of the Buffalo wing franchisor over the last year while the stock’s price has ranged from $150 to $210, but Wingstop has only continued to slide downward. The company now trades 74% below its 2024…