Walmart Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc. and Kroger Co. now require shoppers to wear face coverings in their stores. The two retailers join others, including Starbucks Corp. SBUX, +3.96% , which has recently put a face mask policy in place. Walmart Inc. WMT, -0.00% announced Wednesday that face coverings will be required at all U.S. […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Diego Parrilla is on the lookout for anti-bubbles. In other words, the manager behind the $450-million Quadriga Igneo hedge fund’s investment process focuses on cheap assets poised to perform when bubbles burst. See full story. ‘My PPP loan allowed me to reopen, but it is not going to allow me to stay […]
People listen to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at the Hyatt Park community center on May 4, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. It is Biden’s first visit to South Carolina as a 2020 presidential candidate. With less than four months until Election Day, a prominent group that advocates for women of color said Joe Biden’s presidential […]
There aren’t many books about investing that remain relevant over 40 years after they were first published. Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, first published in 1973 and now in its twelfth edition, is one. Malkiel’s observation — that short-term fluctuations in the markets make stocks unpredictable and that it’s thus usually wiser […]
A USPS employee in Santa Monica, California, during the coronavirus pandemic. Mario Tama/Getty Images The US Postal Service’s new Postmaster General has established new cost-saving policies that could slow down mail service. Mail carriers are being told to leave mail behind at distribution centers rather than taking late trips, taking extra trips, or logging overtime, […]
Moderna Inc. stock skyrocketed in the extended session Tuesday after the biotech company said its experimental coronavirus vaccine produced a “robust” immune-system response in a larger group of people and the study will move to a larger clinical trial in July. Results published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that a two-dose vaccination […]
U.S. investors who been running up equity market values, have been right, at least so far, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Tuesday. “Equity markets are something we don’t usually talk about at the Fed. I think they have been optimistic and they have been right, I think, up to now anyway,” Bullard […]
Burger King is adding lemongrass to rebalance the diet of some of the beef herd used for its Whoppers in order to limit the methane emissions that contribute to climate change. The restaurant chain on Tuesday began selling its reduced methane emissions beef Whopper in select restaurants in Miami, New York, Austin, Portland and Los […]
A new crop of day traders are learning they have to think fast about buying, selling and holding stock — and they might need to think quickly about tax planning strategies for next season as well. July 15 isn’t just the deadline to file federal income taxes. It’s the deadline when people trying to make […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the possibility that House lawmakers will hold off on their August break until a deal is reached on a new coronavirus relief bill, including an extension of more-generous jobless benefits. Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Pelosi was asked if she was willing to forego or delay that break. The California Democrat […]