Walmart Anticipates a Store Manager Shortage Despite $200,000-a-Year Pay

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Walmart Can’t Find Enough Store Managers, Even at $200,000 a Year

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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 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...

Warren Buffett Puts Some of His $144 Billion to Work With Alleghany Deal

Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Text size It was only three weeks ago that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett wrote of the unpleasantness associated with h...

Deere, Hershey and More Stocks to Buy to Combat Food Inflation

The highest inflation in decades is hitting consumers and rippling through the food industry, from farm equipment to packaged food, grocers, and restaurants. At-home food costs climbed 8.6% and out-of...

Food Costs Are Rising. Here Are the Stocks to Buy.

The highest inflation in decades is hitting consumers and rippling through the food industry, from farm equipment to packaged food, grocers, and restaurants. At-home food costs climbed 8.6% and out-of...

Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta

Text size The robot trader likes Apple and Nvidia stock. Fresco/Evening Standard/Getty Images Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artifici...

Chewy Co-Founder Ryan Cohen Takes Large Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, Pushes for Changes

Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of online pet-products retailer Chewy Inc., CHWY 2.91% has a big stake in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -3.40% and is pushing the housewares retailer to stream...

Best Buy Stock: Earnings Reveal Tough Christmas Quarter. Company Raises Dividend.

Text size Best Buy is contending with short-term headwinds, but the electronics retailer is expecting business to pick up by fiscal 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images Best Buy stock rose Thursday despite ...

Target (TGT) Q4 2021 earnings

Target on Tuesday said sales rose 9% in the fiscal fourth quarter, as it weathered supply chain challenges over the holidays and built on e-commerce and customer gains during the pandemic. The discoun...

Retailers’ Wage Increases to Attract Workers Aren’t Yet Denting Profits

Large retailers and other employers that hire hourly workers are continuing to lift wages, and so far have kept profits growing as well. On Monday, Target Corp. TGT 0.28% said it plans to spend up to ...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.

“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...

These 12 ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks have been the best income compounders over 5 years

Stock-market investors typically want to anticipate industry events or companies’ successes so they can make as much money as possible. But as a new year begins, a look back can be useful, especially ...