The Stock Market Had a Great Start to 2023. Earnings Season Could Be a Problem.

Text size This coming Friday marks the start of fourth-quarter earnings season, with Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase helping to kick off the festivities. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Investors got their Goldilock...

AARP-Branded Medicare Drug Plan Is Too Costly for Many Retirees, Critics Say

The AARP name has become a marketing juggernaut among baby boomers, with the group’s nearly 38 million members receiving offers for AARP-branded health, life and auto insurance, and discounts on cellp...

The Stock Market Rebound Fizzled. Why a Real Bottom Could Be Forming Soon.

Investors seemingly can’t stop trying to pick a stock market bottom, no matter how bad the news—and it continues to backfire. The day for a real bounce, however, may be coming soon. Consider: This pas...

Amazon, CVS, Walmart Are Playing Healthcare’s Long Game

Amazon, CVS and Walmart are playing healthcare’s long game getty In recent months, three of the nation’s largest retailers have stirred up a frenzy on Wall Street with a string of high-profile h...

Billionaire Berkshire Board Member David Gottesman Dies at 96

Text size David Sanford “Sandy” Gottesman arrives for a Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg David “Sandy” Gottesman, a Berkshire Hathaway board me...

Walmart And UnitedHealth Group Launch Medicare Advantage Partnership

Walmart and UnitedHealth Group are beginning a major 10-year collaboration to provide healthcare … [+] services and “improve the patient experience” for Medicare Advantage enrollees in certain m...

CVS Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Signify Health for Around $8 Billion

CVS Health is in advanced talks to acquire the home-healthcare company Signify Health for around $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. CVS appears to have beat out other heavy hitt...

Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health

Amazon.com Inc. is among the bidders for healthcare company Signify Health Inc., joining other heavy hitters vying in an auction for the home-health services provider, according to people familiar wit...

UnitedHealth to Drop Copays on Some Widely Used Drugs

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it would eliminate copayments and other out-of-pocket charges for patients on some widely used drugs in certain plans next year, including insulin and the anti-overdose tr...

Target, Caterpillar, and 3 More Stocks Getting Higher Dividends

Text size Target is raising its quarterly dividend by 20%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Target and Caterpillar were among the U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. Target (ticker:...

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Delta, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season begins this week, kicked off as always by results from several big banks. JPMorgan Chase reports on Wednesday, followed by Wells Fargo , Goldman Sach...

Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.

Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.

Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...