A Covid outbreak in China, which forced production shutdowns, is weighing on April’s output numbers for electric vehicle makers. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Text size Chinese electric ve...
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Strong Dollar Aids U.S. Inflation Fight, Adds to Price Pressures Abroad
Text size Chinese 100 yuan bank notes. Paul Yeung/Bloomberg While your attention probably was focused on that big takeover of a certain social-media site, the gyrations in the global currency markets ...
Apple stock swings to a loss after executives warn of billions in added costs
Apple Inc. topped earnings expectations and set a new record for March-quarter revenue to start 2022, but executives expect to see steeper pressure and billions in additional costs from challenges in ...
U.S. universities reinstate mask mandates
Masked to protect against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), senior Lauren Pyjar takes advantage of the warm sunshine to study outdoors at Georgetown University in Washington, March 9, 2021. Kevin La...
Alibaba Stock Drops to Its Lowest Level in 6 Years. Behind the Latest Fall.
Text size Shanghai has been under strict Covid-19 lockdowns since March. Dreamstime The worsening Covid-19 situation in China is weighing on the country’s stock market, with companies including Alibab...
Stock Futures, Oil Prices and Chinese Shares Fall
U.S. stock futures fell, oil prices declined and Chinese stocks suffered their worst selloff in more than two years as Beijing sticks to its zero-Covid strategy while faced with increasing cases in ma...
Oil joins tumbling commodities as China COVID spread triggers fresh demand worries
Oil prices tumbled on Monday, amid fresh worries that spreading COVID cases and more lockdowns in China will hurt demand. That has added to concerns that Federal Reserve tightening could also weaken p...
Asian markets tumble amid worries about earnings, Fed rate hike
TOKYO — Asian shares declined Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week on a tumble as global markets’ expectations for higher interest rates continued to set the tone. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK...
How to prepare your finances for another recession: ‘We think a hard landing will ultimately be unavoidable’
Two years after the short, sharp pandemic-related recession, Wall Street is once again warning of a new recession on the horizon. That’s not a lot to go on, but financial-planning experts say it ought...
Tesla Could Reopen Its Shanghai Factory Next Week: Report
Text size An aerial view of Tesla’s Shanghai factory, which closed in late March due to rising cases. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla might be reopening its most productive facility earlier than i...
Microsoft Stock Slips on Concern About Growth for Office 365
Text size Microsoft Office is one of the company’s biggest businesses. Dreamstime Microsoft shares are under pressure from concerns about how the company might be affected by slowing growth in t...
Pfizer’s New CFO David Denton Negotiated One of the Biggest Healthcare Deals in History
Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...
China’s Nio halts EV production as COVID lockdowns disrupt its supply chain
Nio Inc., the China-based electric-vehicle maker, over the weekend warned of delivery delays after suspending production due to COVID-19 restrictions that have disrupted its supply chain. “There will ...
As food prices hit an all-time high, more Americans have abandoned online grocery shopping and returned to supermarket aisles
More Americans are browsing again — in grocery-store aisles rather than online. With U.S. states abandoning mask mandates in public places, and more retailers dropping requirements for masks — and the...
Alibaba Stock Hit by China Covid Outbreak. 4 Reasons to Hope for a Bounce.
Text size Alibaba stock faces headwinds from Covid-19 outbreaks in China. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images A renewed outbreak of Covid-19 in China has hurt the outlook for the e-commerce giant Alibaba ...
CEO of Robinhood rival shines fresh light on what retail investors are doing. Wall Street needs to pay attention.
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, a newish crowd of retail investors emerged, pouring extra cash into equity markets and steering Wall Street into places they never dreamed, such ...
Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult
Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...
Walgreens Earnings Top Estimates but Its Outlook Crushes the Stock.
Text size Walgreens delivers a second-quarter earnings beat. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance tumbled Thursday after investors were disappo...
Opinion: The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq have now suffered a ‘death cross’ — here’s why this could resurrect them
Reports of the U.S. stock market’s death appear to be greatly exaggerated. I’m referring to the dreaded “death cross” that has now appeared in the price charts of the three major U.S. stock market ave...
Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Face Shareholder Pressure to Broaden Covid-19 Vaccine Access
Socially conscious investors and global-health activists are turning to shareholders to press Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson to make more of their s...
Opinion: The economy is in much better shape than the headlines would tell you
Inflation is through the roof. There’s an oil crisis. A looming food crisis. You name it. War is raging in Europe. Russia’s president is starting to sound unhinged. And headlines are now linking him w...
Signs Start to Emerge That High Energy Prices Are Sapping Demand
Text size Vehicles heading east out of Los Angeles. Vehicle miles traveled in California are starting to flatten out as gasoline prices remain high. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices h...
Housing Crisis: Why 40-Year Mortgages Might Help Delinquent Borrowers
Text size Illustration by Laurent Duvoux About the author: Patrick Harker is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. But many of the pande...