Financial Performance

Retail sales rose modestly at the start of the holiday season, as shoppers faced rising prices and supply shortages, and some snapped up gifts earlier.Sales at U.S. retail stores, online sellers, and restaurants rose by a…

Earnings season will be a key test for the stock market after the S&P 500 last week closed out its worst half-year performance since 1970, said strategists from Morgan Stanley.  The direction of stocks going…

Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. TSLA 2.07% won’t introduce new vehicles this year, as the electric-vehicle maker bets on increasing deliveries over…

Peloton Interactive Inc. is exchanging its top finance executive about four months after it named a new chief executive, a move that comes as the fitness-equipment maker navigates…

Shares of SoFi Technologies Inc. surged in after-hours trading Tuesday after the financial-technology company said that it won regulatory approval to become a bank-holding company. The company announced late…

U.S. stocks opened 2022 with tepid gains as investors monitored cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and other factors that could weigh on stocks this year. The S&P 500 gained 0.4% in early Monday trading. The index ended 2021 up…

Shares of ProFrac Holding Corp. powered to a fresh high Tuesday, after Wall Street gave the fracking services company a unanimously bullish endorsement, a little less than a month after a relatively disappointing…

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Cash is king right now. The latest evidence: the market’s embrace of dividend-paying stocks over another longtime favorite, firms that do buybacks. Investors are rushing to companies promising regular payouts to shareholders, a sign of…

Oaktree Capital founder Howard Marks is a boldfaced name on Wall Street, equally well known for his firm’s performance as for his lengthy investor letters that he periodically publishes free online to reach the…