Twitter Is the S&P 500’s Top Performer in April. Nvidia Is the Worst.

Text size Target store shopping carts in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images It’s been a volatile month for stocks as investors have navigated a complex macroeconomic minefield — from rising interest rates...

‘The graveyard shift is the most understaffed:’ I work as a waiter on the Las Vegas Strip. We are overworked, underpaid, and our drunk customers often don’t tip

Dear Quentin,  I currently work at a fast-casual restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. I have worked at the company for three years. I work at the busiest outlet of this restaurant in the world. During t...

Chainlink [LINK] – Retail investors should look forward to more ‘whaling’ around

Chainlink, building on its uniqueness, has reached a point where the kind of services it provides to blockchains, DApps, and crypto-companies have become pretty much exclusive to Chainlink. Even if an...

Costco Thrives by Mastering Traditional Retailing. Now It’s Challenging Amazon.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Costco Wholesale is challenging Amazon.com by keeping things simple: limited selection, low prices, good execution. With just 7% of its sales online, it’s the ant...

NFA Fines Interactive Brokers $250k for Retail FX, Supervisory Failures

The National Futures Association (NFA), the United States’ derivates industry watchdog, has fined Interactive Brokers LLC, an American multinational brokerage firm, $250,000 in fine. Take Advantage of...

The Pandemic Made These Retailers Stronger. Their Stocks Are Buying Opportunities.

Far from killing retail, as initially feared, Covid-19 wound up being a boon for the industry. It’s the recovery that looks more perilous. The pandemic was a great time for retailers. Consumers were f...

Top Retail Stocks for Q2 2022

The retail industry provides a variety of finished goods, both durable and non-durable, to individual consumers and households. The industry also sells services. Products sold by retail companies incl...

The Retail Revival In NYC’s Meatpacking District

New York City’s Meatpacking District is experiencing a retail revival post-COCID shutdowns. Meatpacking District New York City’s Meatpacking District, which earned its name from the slaughterhou...

Peloton Stock Halted, Tumbles After Surprise Membership Price Hike

Updated at 3:23 pm EST Peloton  (PTON) – Get Peloton Interactive, Inc. Class A Report said Thursday that it will boost the price of its connected fitness programs for the first time in eight yea...

stay away from these two retail stocks

The VanEck Retail ETF has recovered close to 10% over the past two months, but a Wells Fargo analyst on Thursday picked two popular names in this sector that, he says, investors should continue to avo...

Mortgage rates soar to highest level in over a decade — even wealthy home buyers are feeling the pain

Mortgage rates are soaring, and no one is being spared. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 5% as of the week ending April 14, representing an increase of 28 basis points from the pr...

Rite Aid Stock Is Soaring. The Outlook Impresses Investors.

Text size Rite Aid’s quarterly loss was bigger than expected. Mario Tama/Getty Images Rite Aid’s stock surged after the drugstore chain said it expects to lose less money in the current fiscal y...

Amazon CEO Says One Sector of Crypto Economy Will Grow Significantly – Is the Retail Giant Preparing To Accept Bitcoin?

A top executive at online retail giant Amazon says that he believes one nascent sector of the crypto industry will continue to see extensive growth. In a new interview with CNBC Squawk Box, Amazon CEO...

Retail Sales Slow In March As Prices Continue To Climb

March gasoline sales rose 8.9% compared to February and are 37% higher this year compared to last … [+] year. Gas prices were up 18.3% in March. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange Co...

Costco Just Raised Its Dividend. It’s One More Reason to Own the Stock.

Text size Costco raised its dividend again. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Costco Wholesale just raised its dividend–and it’s just one more reason to own its stock. After Wednesday’s close, Costco (ticker: C...

Retail sales rose 0.5% in March amid inflation jump; import prices hit 11-year high

Customers pushing shopping carts shop at a supermarket on April 12, 2022 in San Mateo County, California. Liu Guanguan | China News Service | Getty Images Consumers continued to spend in March even as...

Metaverse in retail, growing digital demand for information

Akeneo’s report shows how the metaverse in retail is driving digital demand for product information.  The metaverse in retail and Akeneo’s research in the UK The digital collection of information on p...

PayPal Stock Is Falling. It’s Not Because Its CFO Is Leaving for Walmart.

Text size PayPal’s has a new interim CFO. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walmart said late Tuesday that it had named John Rainey as its chief financial officer. Rainey currently holds the same pos...

50,000 retail store closures in U.S. by 2026 after pandemic pause

A pandemic shakeup in 2020 led to a surge in store closures, coupled with dozens retailers filing for bankruptcy, which emptied out shopping malls and left vacancies scattered along the streets major ...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GSK

Text size The deal comes ahead of GlaxoSmithKline’s planned spinoff of its consumer health division in July. AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy compa...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GlaxoSmithKline

Text size AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy company Sierra Oncology for $1.9 billion in cash, as it looks to boost its portfolio of new specialty medicine...

UPS Set Sails Into Metaverse Waters With Virtual Retail Shipping Services

Another entity enters the Metaverse as the space is growing by leaps and bounds lately.  United Parcel Service (UPS) has filed five patent applications keeping various Metaverse and NFT related servic...

A Lesson About Wealth From Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is the world’s richest human. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is worth a cool $274 billion. Now, a former auto analyst-turned-market research...

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...

Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise

Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...

The end of one-chip wonders: Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval

It wasn’t too long ago that Intel Corp. was the unquestioned king of U.S. chip makers and the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization. It’s also not long since most computing was done w...

IKEA Sees Sustainable Plan In Secondhand Furniture

IKEA is making its Buy Back & Resell program permanent across its 37 U.S. stores following a pilot last summer. The service applies only to used IKEA furniture that is fully assembled and function...

CarMax’s Awful Earnings Send a Warning to All Car Stocks. Here’s What to Know.

Text size Cars sitting in the parking lot are reflected in the windows of used car retailer CarMax. Yana Paskova/Getty Images Used car giant CarMax delivered an earning miss that has sent the stock lo...

UPS to enter the metaverse with virtual retail shipping services

United Parcel Service (UPS), an American multinational shipping and receiving company, is planning to venture into the metaverse. Mike Kondoudis, a non-fungible token (NFT) trademark attorney, unveile...

Alibaba Stock Stake Slashed by Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal

Text size Charlie Munger attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha in 2019. JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / Getty Images Daily Journal , which Charlie Munger had served as chairman until rece...

Shopify Plans Stock Split That’s Bound to Tap Retail Frenzy

(Bloomberg) — Canada’s Shopify Inc. just became the latest tech giant to announce plans to split its stock in a bid to bring a higher number of loyal retail investors to its shareholder base. Mo...