Why the stock market isn’t impressed with the first monthly decline in consumer prices in more than 2 years

Inflation data may no longer be the big catalyst for stocks that it once was. U.S. stocks bounced around to a higher close on Thursday, even though investors received some encouraging inflation news a...

Bed Bath & Beyond may be heading for a ‘meme squeeze’

Troubled home-goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond may be heading for a ‘meme squeeze,’ says analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky of S3 Partners. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, +50.14% announced the closure of a...

IRS says ‘Tax Day’ will be different this year — put these important tax dates on your calendar

It’s not too early to start thinking about your 2022 income-tax return, if you can bear the thought. That’s because the tax-filing season is scheduled to start on Monday, Jan. 23, the Internal Revenue...

Oramed’s oral insulin pill fails; stock is down 72%

Shares of Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. ORMP, -76.56% plunged 72% in premarket trading on Thursday, the day after the company told investors its oral insulin medication did not meet the primary or secon...

Algonquin Power to cut dividend by 40%, provides downbeat profit outlook

Shares of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. AQN, -4.26% AQN, -4.67% turned lower to fall 2.2% in premarket trading Thursday, after the utility company said it was taking “decisive actions” to stre...

‘My adviser insists this is a good, low-risk investment.’ I’m semi-retired at 63 with $2 million saved. My financial adviser wants me to sink half my money in an annuity. Should I do it?

I’ve never been a big fan of annuities, but my advisor insists this is a good low risk investment vehicle. Is a variable annuity a good option for me? Getty Images Question: I am 63 and semi-retired. ...

PPL plans dividend hike, to boost yield to 3.2%

PPL Corp. PPL, +2.09% said Wednesday that it plans to raised it quarterly dividend by 6.7%, to 24 cents a share. Based on Tuesday’s closing price of the electricity generation and transmission company...

JPMorgan says it was duped by founder who made up 4 million customers

JPMorgan Chase has alleged in a lawsuit that it was duped by a start-up founder who made up 4 million customers for an app designed to help students through the college financial aid process. In a law...

Investors mock Elon Musk’s bid to move Tesla trial from California

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for Tesla shareholders suing the electric vehicle maker’s CEO Elon Musk over a misleading tweet are urging a federal judge to reject the billionaire’s request to move an upcomi...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reports record net profit and revenue on chip demand

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday that fourth-quarter net profit rose to a new record thanks to growing demand for high-speed computing and better margins. The world’s largest contr...

AMD poaches Marvell’s Jean Hu for CFO slot as Devinder Kumar retires

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said late Wednesday that financial chief Devinder Kumar was retiring and that Marvell Technology Inc.’s Jean Hu would take his place. Marvell MRVL, +3.81% announced that Hu...

Home prices to tumble over 25% from peak levels in ‘overheated’ markets, says Goldman

Credit researchers at Goldman Sachs now expect home prices in several “overheated” metro areas to fall over 25% from peak levels. Metro areas included in their forecast were San Jose, Austin, Phoenix ...

Carvana stock soars to lead NYSE gainers on heavy volume

Shares of Carvana Co. CVNA, +24.43% soared 24.7%, enough to pace the New York Stock Exchange’s gainers, even though the online used-car retailer hasn’t released any news. Trading volume swelled to 33....

XPeng stock falls after J.P. Morgan says stop buying

Shares of XPeng Inc. fell Wednesday, after J.P. Morgan backed away from its bullish call on the China-based electric vehicle maker, saying the COVID-related reopening trade has been overdone. Analyst ...

Why Thursday’s U.S. CPI report might kill stock market’s hope of inflation melting away

A mild stock market rally to kick off the new year will be put to the test Thursday when investors face a highly-awaited U.S. inflation reading which could well help determine the size of the Federal ...

Daughter of world’s richest man takes the helm at Dior as LVMH reshuffles its two biggest fashion houses

The biggest luxury brand in the world has announced a shake-up of its two major fashion labels, a move that has put the daughter of the world’s richest man in charge at one of them. LVMH Moët Hennessy...

Halo Therapeutics stock drops following weak 2023 outlook

Halozyme Therapeutics Inc. HALO, -10.09% stock fell in the extended session Tuesday after the biotech drug maker’s 2023 forecast disappointed Wall Street. Halozyme shares fell as much as 8% after hour...

World Wrestling Entertainment climbs after tweets that Saudi fund will buy it

Shares of World Wrestling Entertainment WWE, -0.95% climbed 6% in premarket trade after two wrestling news reporters tweeted that Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund is buying the company, whi...

Could Apple WiFi chips just be a ploy to get a better deal from Broadcom?

Broadcom Inc. shares fell Tuesday following reports that Apple Inc. was working on its own radiofrequency (RF) chips, but one analyst wondered whether those plans would get shelved if the chip maker o...

The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance

We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...

‘Our kids say our small house is embarrassing’: My husband and I earn $160K, have $1 million in retirement savings, cook at home and drive an old Honda. Are we missing out? 

I’m a pretty fortunate person who lives a pretty fortunate life, and our annual household income at $160,000 is high compared to the rest of the world. However, we are still pretty frugal — we cook at...

Sotera Health to pay $408 million to settlement allegations in Illinois

Shares of Sotera Health Co. SHC, +102.20% soared 57% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company said it will pay $408 million to settle more than 870 million legal cases in Illinois. Sotera own...

Biden administration unveils sweeping changes to student loan repayment

The future of the Biden administration’s student debt-relief plan currently rests with the Supreme Court, but in the meantime, officials are moving forward with sweeping reform that could have an even...

IRS wraps up paying people this lucrative pandemic-era tax break. Here’s how much money they can expect — and why they’re getting it.

Nearly two years after lawmakers temporarily changed tax rules in the middle of the filing season in order to exclude a major chunk of jobless benefits from federal income tax, the Internal Revenue Se...

GE HealthCare, in first deal after spinoff, set to buy French company

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. GEHC, -1.44% late Monday said it has agreed to buy French tomography company IMACTIS for an undisclosed amount. IMACTIS’s system is designed to increase the procedure’s...

CVS eyes next-generation health clinics after Amazon’s move for One Medical

CVS Health Corp. is investing in a young chain of health clinics, and may be looking to acquire another. CVS CVS, -0.12% invested $100 million in a Carbon Health Inc., a San Francisco-based chain of u...

Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO

Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...

Broadcom stock dinged in final minutes on report Apple working on its own WiFi/Bluetooth chips

Broadcom Inc. shares closed sharply lower Monday in the final minutes of trading following a report that Apple Inc. was working on its own WiFi and Bluetooth chips, which would make Broadcom’s unneces...

Keurig K-Cup settlement: Today’s the final day to join the $10 million lawsuit

If you have been making your morning cup of coffee using the popular Keurig KDP, -0.63% pods, aka K-Cups, then you may be entitled to some money. The beverage giant recently agreed to settle a class-a...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

Novavax’s stock rallies after the company names new CEO

Shares of Novavax Inc. NVAX, +11.25% were up about 9% in trading on Monday after the company said John Jacobs will take over as president and CEO on Jan. 23. Jacobs, the former president and CEO of Ha...

Look for a big cut to TSMC’s 2023 outlook as a bullish sign for chips, one analyst says ahead of earnings

The best thing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. can do in its earnings report Thursday is to cut its outlook for 2023 big, indicating a bottoming in the first half of the year, according to one ...