Whole Foods Voting on Amazon Takeover, and Pending Verdict in Samsung Case
Two indicators this week — new home sales in July, released Wednesday, and existing home sales
that same month, released the next day — will give added insight into whether the recent gains in consumer and business sentiment have filtered more broadly into the economy and housing market.
A version of this article appears in print on August 21, 2017, on Page B2 of the New York
edition with the headline: Vote on Whole Foods’ Fate; Yellen and Draghi to Speak.
Mr. Lee faces charges that he bribed South Korean government officials to solidify
his family’s control of Samsung, one of the world’s biggest business empires.
Prosecutors recommended that Mr. Lee be sentenced to 12 years in prison and other Samsung executives to 10 years in a trial
that has been obsessively followed by the South Korean public.