Whole Foods Voting on Amazon Takeover, and Pending Verdict in Samsung Case<br />Two indicators this week — new home sales in July, released Wednesday, and existing home sales<br />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.<br />A version of this article appears in print on August 21, 2017, on Page B2 of the New York<br />edition with the headline: Vote on Whole Foods’ Fate; Yellen and Draghi to Speak.<br />Mr. Lee faces charges that he bribed South Korean government officials to solidify<br />his family’s control of Samsung, one of the world’s biggest business empires.<br />Prosecutors recommended that Mr. Lee be sentenced to 12 years in prison and other Samsung executives to 10 years in a trial<br />that has been obsessively followed by the South Korean public.
