This week's labor-market data, including the all-important November jobs report due on Friday, carry big implications for the Federal Reserve's interest rate-cut plans. And that, in turn, will matter ...

As a shorter holiday-shopping home stretch this year kicks into gear, more retailers - including Foot Locker Inc. and Victoria's Secret & Co. - report this week, likely offering more detail about ...

We're not rich enough to buy cheap things.' Unboxing a bargain brings its momentary thrill, but true satisfaction comes from devices that delight for many years. Typically I focus on market trends, ...

Asking for a friend (no, really). If a person files for bankruptcy, and it is subsequently dismissed (that is, not deemed an appropriate bankruptcy case by the court), and the person has some large ...

Not surprisingly, it was a quiet week with the Thanksgiving holiday. But in the absence of anything significant to trip the ...

Many new jobs will be gained and others lost in this new era, but the opportunity beckons to finally raise U.S. GDP growth to 3.5% or 4% a year by retraining displaced workers, recalibrating secondary ...

Large-capitalization U.S. stocks have outperformed virtually all comers over the past 15 years. According to some of the world's largest investment banks, that is unlikely to change in 2025.

Cumulative volume breadth (CVB) made a new all-time high on three consecutive days recently, and then SPX did the same. The new all-time highs in CVB are a confirming signal for the new all-time highs ...

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. and Best Buy Inc.'s stocks are likely to underperform in the period stretching from Black Friday to year-end as two retailers with the most exposure to the holiday season, ...

Kubey is something of a tax influencer, not just on social media, but also by virtue of constantly passing along her knowledge to younger generations of tax professionals at conferences and continuing ...

The Dow tracks the market performance of 30 U.S.-listed large-cap companies. Over the past century, the index has changed its components more than 50 times, most recently swapping Intel Corp. (INTC) ...

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