
SAN FRANCISCO—A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors.

The U.S. government and Honda issued a ‘Do Not Drive’ warning on Friday for about 8,200 older Acura and Honda vehicles that still have Takata Alpha airbag inflators, urging car owners to have them immediately repaired because the defective airbags make it dangerous to drive the vehicles they are installed in.

BUENOS AIRES—Argentina will roll out a new 2,000-peso bill, the central bank said on Thursday, which would double the face value of the country’s top denomination bank note, but would still only be worth $11 officially and $5 in commonly used parallel markets.

Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said its operating profit could fall to zero in the current quarter as savings from layoffs do not make up for the financial impact of consumers and cloud customers clamping down on spending.

GoodRx, a company that provides prescription price transparency and discounted prices on medications, has agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty as proposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its unauthorized sharing of users’ personal information with big technology corporations.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Feb. 1 to discuss the debt ceiling and spending cuts, a meeting that left McCarthy hopeful of finding common ground.

The U.S. manufacturing industry contracted for the third month in a row in January, and remained below a key threshold that is consistent with a recession in the broader U.S. economy.