When Quitting Normalizes, Benefit to Low-Wage Workers May Subside

Low-wage workers capitalized on the rare opportunity of a tight labor market with a burst of job-switching. That wave shows signs of easing now and economists say that, apart from a one-off rise in wa...

New York City Companies Prepare to Put Pay Ranges on Job Listings

New York City employers are hustling to figure out what to do about impending salary-disclosure rules, while hoping for a delay. A sweeping pay-disclosure law requiring nearly all companies operating ...

Big Investor Sold AMC and Apple Stock. It Bought PayPal and Pfizer.

Text size An AMC theater Dreamstime A large European asset manager slashed its investment in the volatile shares of a movie-theater chain, and made other changes in its U.S.-traded stock portfolio. DN...

California’s French Four-Day Workweek – WSJ

The popular book “The 4-Hour Workweek” provides tips on how to make more money by working less. Now California Democrats are taking a page from the book by proposing to mandate a four-day week, which ...

Utilities Plan Huge Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills

American utilities are planning their biggest spending increases in decades to upgrade aging grids, prepare for electric vehicles and make the transition to renewable energy—moves poised to further bo...

Ex-UBS Advisor Pleads Guilty to Fraud That Funded Multiple Romances

An ex- UBS advisor pleaded guilty in a federal court in Miami to defrauding clients of more than $5 million, the Justice Department said. German Nino, who was charged earlier this year, entered a plea...

Utility Stocks Are Hot Right Now. Here’s Why.

Text size A Dominion Energy solar-power facility in Selmer, Tenn. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Higher bond yields are roiling the stock market. Utility shares have benefited—and it doesn’t look like their r...

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...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Will Have No Trouble Financing Twitter

Text size Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at the “Cyber Rodeo” opening party, April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. AFP via Getty Images Rich people rarely have to pay cash. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ...

Inflation Isn’t Close to Peaking. Why Prices Will Keep Rising.

The producer price index showed surging prices for meat and fish categories, costs that tend to crop up in the grocery store. Here, a market in Monterey Park, Calif., on a recent day. Frederic J. BROW...

Commodities Are Hot Right Now. But the Party May Be Over.

Text size Prices for industrial commodities such as copper wire have taken off. Dreamstime Investors have piled into commodities, sending their prices soaring, but the good times may be more or less o...

Selling Your Stocks in May and Go Away Could Be the Best Strategy This Year

Text size A trader at the New York Stock Exchange. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images This could be the year to follow the adage: Sell in May and go away. It was a pretty lousy holiday-shortened week. T...

Warren Tells IRS to Focus Audits on the Rich, Not Low-Income Taxpayers

Lawmakers are calling on the IRS to stop disproportionately auditing low-income taxpayers, who they say are far more likely than other taxpayers to face IRS scrutiny, with audit rates for poorer filer...

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...

Municipal Bonds Are Down So Much That They’re Buys Again

Text size Al Drago/Bloomberg A funny thing happened in the past week, as news emerged of inflation hitting a four-decade high. A few strategists started looking a bit more positively on bonds, or at l...

What Is a Poison Pill? Twitter Adopts Defensive Move to Fend Off Elon Musk.

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. He currently has a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Text size Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Fri...

Will Twitter Accept Elon Musk’s $43 Billion Offer? His Options If Twitter Says No.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman, has some options if Twitter rejects his nearly $43 billion bid. Twitter (ticker: TWTR) co...

Cathie Wood Just Took Her Tesla Price Target to $4,600. Robotaxis Are Why.

Text size Tesla cars recharging Mario Tama/Getty Images ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood is a longtime Tesla bull. Her Tesla models and price targets usually make headlines. That was the case the prior time...

AT&T and WBD Stocks Both Look Attractive. Here’s Why.

Text size Barron’s praised AT&T’s Warner Bros. spinoff in a May 2021 cover story. Both stocks are attractive now. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T has officially closed the book on a tumultuo...

Why a Yield Curve Inversion Might Actually Be Good News for Investors

Text size Dreamstime About the author: Ashwin Alankar is the head of Global Asset Allocation at Janus Henderson Investors. The recent trend by the market to frame new developments in a negative light ...

You Made $700 From an Online Side Hustle. Now the IRS Will Know.

Now that your 2021 taxes are done—or at least under way—it’s time to focus on a key tax change for 2022 affecting millions of Americans making money through platforms like eBay , Etsy , Airbnb , Venmo...

Elon Musk Has a Role Model for Taking a Tech Firm Private: Michael Dell

Text size Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies. Matthew Busch/Bloomberg Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted four words—and a link to a government filing—to tell the world, o...

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...

High-Yielding Stocks Should Continue to Outperform. 6 Ways to Invest.

Text size Exchange-traded funds that focus on high-yielding sectors such as utilities, energy, and commodities have outperformed the broader market. Dreamstime High-yielding stocks have been standout ...

Warren Buffett Says He Is in Great Health With No Plans to Step Down as CEO

Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Warren Buffett says he is in excellent health and has no plans to step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway as he eagerly anticipate...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Good Friday 2022 Trading Hours.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size Good Friday may come as a bit of sweet relief for investors. The stock market has taken a hit this year. Stocks slipped this week, too: The Dow Jones Industrial Av...

Worried About a Recession? Buy IBM Stock, Morgan Stanley Says.

Text size IMB stock is a buy according to Morgan Stanley. Dreamstime Worried about recession? Then maybe you want to take a fresh look at IBM stock. That advice comes courtesy of Morgan Stanley analys...

Nvidia Stock Gains on Upgrade. Ethereum Won’t Crash It the Way Bitcoin Did.

Text size Gamers compete at the ‘Nvidia’ booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 in Los Angeles. Christian Petersen/Getty Images Nvidia stock was rising Wednesday after it receiv...

Musk’s Cannabis-Themed Twitter Offer Looks High but Not Wacky

Text size Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter —and you don’t need to work up a discounted cash flow anal...

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...

Elon Musk and Twitter: What Happens Next

Text size Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk could continue to face legal questions over his new stake in Twitter. Win McNamee/Getty Images Elon Musk’s back and forth with Twitter  took another turn this...

Ford Is Now 3 Businesses. What That Means for the Stock.

Text size Ford stock is down about 25% year to date. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Ford Motor Chief Financial Officer John Lawler spoke at the Bank of America conference taking place at the New Y...