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Bed Bath & Beyond Insiders Scooped Up Stock After an Awful Quarter
Text size Bed Bath and Beyond insiders snapped up shares of the home-goods retailer. Erin Cadigan/Dreamstime.com Everything but the kitchen sink has seemed to go wrong at Bed Bath & Beyond , but t...
Fed Up With China, One Boss Tries Removing It From the Supply Chain
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Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling
Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...
Big Banks Report Earnings This Week. Here’s What Wall Street is Watching.
Text size CEO Brian Moynihan says Bank of America is always prepared for a recession because it has no choice but to be ready, Davis Turner/Getty Images The big banks start to report their earnings th...
Cryptocurrency Is Coming to Your Credit Cards
Cryptocurrencies are a volatile investment today, but card companies including Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are betting crypto will one day be used routinely for everyday purchases from food to cloth...
Crypto Rout Deflates Some Web3 Startups Buoyed by Push Into Digital Tokens
The cryptocurrency rout has spread to startups that offer users digital tokens, pushing down digital asset prices and driving away hordes of users. The startups—part of what has been called Web3—allow...
China Tech Stocks Fall After Beijing Fines Alibaba, Tencent
By Yifan Wang Shares of Chinese tech giants fell in Hong Kong on Monday, after Beijing fined some of the country’s largest internet companies for failing to make proper antitrust declarations on...
What’s Happening in Sri Lanka? What to Know About the Protests and Economic Crisis
Sri Lanka’s sovereign-debt crisis has crippled its economy and sparked months of political turmoil and public unrest. With its foreign reserves drained to near zero, the South Asian nation fell into d...
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...
American Weed Stocks Are Cheap and About to Get a Sales Bump
The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been especial...
Earnings Season Won’t Make or Break the Stock Market
Text size Investors will get the first earnings news from the big banks, which start reporting on July 14. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Earnings season is about to begin, and that means the stock market ...
Paid Off College and the Mortgage? Here’s How to Allocate Your Freed Up Cash.
Retirement savers who’ve paid off their mortgage or have made their last college payment should take a moment to celebrate. Then they should get busy putting their newfound windfall to work. Given th...
IRS, Lawmakers Seek Review of Comey, McCabe Audits
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service and members of Congress have asked the agency’s inspector general to investigate the circumstances surrounding intensive audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe...
How Corn and Soybeans Affect These 3 Biodiesel Stock Plays
Beans and corn have caught my attention, and this time it’s not just because ShopRite put summer succotash on sale. Prices for America’s two biggest cash crops are well off recent highs. Corn is down ...
How to Bottom-Pick a Stock
Text size Chewy stock has gained 63% since we made it a pick. That’s every trader’s dream, but it requires getting the timing right—and a whole lot of luck. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Buying winning stoc...
American Weed Stocks Are Cheap, and About to Get a Sales Bump
The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been real har...
JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...
Stock Outlook Brightens as Jobs Stay Strong, Commodities Prices Decline
Text size The jobless rate held steady at 3.6% in June. Above, looking for work at a job fair in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The economy looks resilient, and inflation is coming down. That combin...