Blackstone Stock Is a Good Investment, Even in a Downbeat Economy

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What investors need to know about Pfizer’s latest downgrade

Pfizer’s PFE, -0.92% early-stage pipeline, though promising, is still too premature to make up for the looming loss of billions of dollars from the company’s COVID-19 franchise, which includes the vac...

Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order

Listen to article (2 minutes) Where have all the go-getters gone?  At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help c...

4 Things to Know About Textron’s Helicopter That Won $80 Billion Army Contract

Textron stock soared Tuesday after the defense company won a contract worth up to $80 billion to build a new helicopter for the Army. Word of the award came late Monday. The Army is turning to Textron...

Textron wins U.S. Army development contract, shares surge 8%

Shares of Textron Inc. TXT, -1.96% were trading higher in Monday’s after-hours session following the company’s announcement it was awarded the development contract for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Rang...

The Fisker Ocean Is a Reality. Why It’s Not Just Another EV.

Today is the day, the day when production of the all-electric Fisker (ticker: FSR) Ocean SUV begins. Fisker is not Tesla It’s a small EV start-up that will only deliver a handful of cars in 2022, but ...

Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening

Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...

Chipotle Stock Could Heat Up. Here Comes a Speedy Robo Burrito Maker.

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Palantir Stock Is Rising. The Company Won a Big Defense Contract.

Palantir stock is modestly higher after the data-analytics software company announced a contract from the Department of Defense worth up to $229 million. It’s a one year pact to support test and deplo...

Porsche Is Sued by a U.S. Dealership Ahead of the Sportscar Maker’s IPO

Text size Porsche’s U.S. sales declined from a year earlier in the first half of 2022. Allison Dinner/Getty Images A South Florida dealership is suing Porsche, just ahead of an initial public of...

‘It’s a remarkably uncertain time’: Redfin CEO warns of rapidly cooling housing market — says deals under contract are being cancelled

After a stellar two-year run, the housing market is sputtering as buyers pull back sharply. One real-estate chief said the market is indeed course-correcting, and it’s getting hard to make a deal as m...

Alibaba, JD.com Rising on Report of Resolution to SEC Delisting Issue

Text size Alibaba stock rose more than 8% following the report. AFP/Getty Images Stock in Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings took off on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that security r...

About 2,500 Boeing workers to strike after rejecting contract offer

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Roughly 2,500 Boeing workers are expected to go on strike next month at three plants in the St. Louis area after they voted Sunday to reject a contract offer from the plane maker. T...

Strike at Machinery Maker CNH Industrial Grinds On as Talks Stall

Negotiations between CNH Industrial NV and the equipment maker’s striking workers have hit a stalemate, deepening supply-chain problems with farm and construction equipment. Bargaining sessions betwee...

Opinion: It is time for Twitter to get as much of Elon Musk’s money as a court will allow

The mercurial Elon Musk finally made it official Friday: He declared in a regulatory filing that he no longer wants to go through with his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc., a deal that the market ...

Pfizer Raises Covid-19 Vaccine Price 27%. What It Means for the Stock.

Text size Pfizer said it has signed a deal to supply the U.S. with vaccines in the fall, while Moderna has yet to announce a sale. Jacob King – WPA Pool / Getty Images Pfizer has raised the U.S....

U.S. Natural-Gas Exporter Completes First Deal With German Buyer

Venture Global LNG Inc. has struck the first binding deals by a U.S. natural-gas exporter to supply natural gas to a German company, as the European nation turns to America to help replace supplies fr...

Kohl’s Suitor Wants to Buy the Chain by Selling Kohl’s Properties

Kohl’s beat back activists and is in talks to be sold for around $8 billion. But its suitor could bring a new set of challenges for the department-store chain. Franchise Group which owns the Vitamin S...

Robots Pick Up More Work at Busy Factories

Robots are turning up on more factory floors and assembly lines as companies struggle to hire enough workers to fill rising orders. Orders for workplace robots in the U.S. increased by a record 40% du...

PayPal borrows $3 billion to help fund debt buyback plan

PayPal Holdings Inc. hit the market on Monday with a $3 billion corporate bond financing to help the online money-transfer and payments giant fund a $2 billion tender offer for its own debt. The four-...

Cleveland-Cliffs Crushes Earnings Estimates. Contract Steel Pricing Does It.

Rising prices helped steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs report much better-than-expected first-quarter sales and earnings. Prices for Cliffs steel rose even as spot prices for steel dropped in the first qua...

Kohl’s Stock Climbs on Reports of a $9 Billion Offer From Franchise Group

Text size Kohl’s stock has risen this year on hopes for a buyout. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s stock climbed on a report Tuesday that Franchise Group is the latest company to throw its ha...

As Russia presses its war with Ukraine, here are 10 aerospace and defense stocks expected to rise up to 39%

No matter when the shooting stops and Russia’s war in Ukraine comes to an end, it seems clear from actions taken by European countries that we’re entering a period of increased defense spending. Below...

Meritor shares headed toward 24-year high after Cummins buys axle, braking and powertrain maker for $3.7 billion

Shares of Meritor Inc., a maker of axle, braking and electric powertrain components, were headed toward a 24-year high Tuesday, after the company announced a deal to be acquired by diesel truck engine...

Las Vegas Sands Stock Could See Better Luck Ahead

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Navient to cancel $1.7 billion in private student loans as part of settlement with 39 attorneys general

Roughly 66,000 borrowers will see their private student loans canceled — totaling more than $1.7 billion in relief — thanks to a deal between 39 state attorneys general and student-loan giant Navient ...