Shares of Novavax Inc. dropped more than 6% in the extended session Monday after the biotech company reported its first profitable quarter, but not by as much as Wall Street expected, and its sales we...
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BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine
Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...
Oil Prices Slip as Saudi Arabia Cuts Prices and China Lockdowns Intensify
Text size Oil prices slip Monday but are still elevated. Pichit Boonhuad/Dreamstime.com Oil prices declined Monday after Saudi Arabia, the biggest exporter, reduced prices for Asia and the northwest o...
Tesla Investors, Beware: April Deliveries for NIO, Li, and XPeng Hit by Covid
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...
Tesla Investors Beware: Bad NIO, Li, XPeng April Deliveries Hit by Covid.
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...
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 ...
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...
Covid outbreaks in New York and D.C. infect senior officials as omicron BA.2 variant sweeps the U.S.
A man is given a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at pop-up testing site in New York, April 11, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Covid infections are rising again in the U.S. with outbreaks in New ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The stock market hit its COVID low 2 years ago today. Here’s how its performance since then stacks up.
It’s the second anniversary Wednesday of the lows set in the U.S. stock-market plunge triggered by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Stocks have stumbled thus far in 2022, but the S&am...
Dow ends 200 points lower after Fed’s Powell leaves door open to larger rate hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Samuel Corum/Getty Images Stocks fell Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell left the door open to the prospect of bigger rate hikes to bring down i...
Mainland China Reports First Coronavirus Deaths in More Than a Year as Omicron Spreads
HONG KONG—China reported its first deaths from Covid-19 in the mainland in more than a year as the country battles a surge of Omicron infections across the country. Two patients died of Covid-19 in th...
Chris Cuomo Demands at Least $125 Million in Arbitration With CNN
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is seeking at least $125 million from his old employer, claiming the network wrongfully terminated him and smeared his journalistic integrity in the process. Mr. Cuomo co...
Opinion: Which jobs have come back, and which ones haven’t
Although the recovery in output, wealth and hours worked has been remarkable since February 2020, the U.S. economy remains deeply scarred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Total hours worked in the nonfarm ec...