Read, write andshare stories

The financial services, retail and telecom sectors displayed the high discrepancy percentage in background verification in the quarter ending December 2020, finds a survey. The...

The wild trading saga surrounding GameStop Corp. and other meme stocks targeted by bands of individual investors ostensibly out to prove a point, rather than...

Approval of India’s biggest airport and Film City, investment by foreign companies in data centers and one of the biggest IKEA’s upcoming retail destination has...

Walmart WMT, +0.49% has joined a growing list of retailers boosting employees’ wages to $15 an hour, but unlike rivals such as Target TGT, -1.35%,...

While other European cities remain tightly locked down, Spain’s already less-restrictive capital Madrid was gifted another hour of freedom this week. Headed by Isabel Díaz...

It’s very rare for someone to get infected with the coronavirus causing the disease COVID-19 a second time, but the few confirmed cases of reinfection...

YOLO? Maybe not quite so. During the GameStop trading frenzy, some observers worried many rookie retail investors banding together on sites like Reddit’s WallStreetBets would...

“ ‘What I would like to point out here is that we have come dangerously close to the collapse of the entire system, and the...

Cowen analysts conducted a survey of customers in the U.S. and Germany who shop on luxury e-commerce site MyTheresa, finding that about 45% typically spend...

In the latest move from regulators to protect competition in online marketplaces, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, has objected to the sale...

With the broader stock-market indexes in a bit of a coma this week, the talk of financial markets is still the awakening of retail investors...

A pullback for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index on Tuesday halted the longest win streak for stocks in months, but...

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, it’s said, though that’s cold comfort for anyone going through a trauma, whether personal or collective. But some...

Traders in the stock market can take advantage of special situations to exploit sentiment and momentum and make quick profits — if they are quick...

Look who’s back. After a long absence, active individual investors have returned. While breakneck and foolhardy trading activity in shares of GameStop Corp. GME, +19.20%...

There was a time, as the pandemic was taking hold last spring, when New York’s criminal-defense lawyers were actually feeling hopeful. Libby Fischer, managing attorney...

GameStop Corp. shares closed lower Thursday for their third trading day this week as volatile trading of heavily shorted stocks comes under more federal scrutiny....

As social media has stoked interest in an assortment of stocks that recently were being shorted by hedge funds, Robinhood and similar, low-cost trading and...

A single dose of the AstraZeneca AZN, -0.88% COVID-19 vaccine offers 76% protection for up to three months after the first injection and appears to...

Gold and silver futures headed sharply lower Tuesday, with the tumble in prices for gold’s sister metal coming as the CME Group raised margin deposit...

Apple Inc. attracted more than $33 billion worth of orders for its new $14 billion debt deal on Monday, underscoring the continued scramble for all...

Robinhood Markets Inc. raised another $2.4 billion from shareholders, days after investors agreed to pump $1 billion into the online brokerage to help it ride out a...

“ ‘The people demand an answer, and they want to know the truth.’ ” That was Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of electric-car maker...

U.S. stock-index futures on Monday morning were trading solidly higher as the market attempted to recover from its worst weekly loss since October as worries...

Millennials, who aren’t likely to begin receiving coronavirus vaccines until the summer, are the most comfortable partaking in activities that are considered higher risks for...