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Amazon.com Inc. investors rejected all 11 shareholder proposals at the company’s annual meeting this week, but vote totals released Friday show that a significant number of investors want more transparency about the company’s business practices on a range of issues. The shareholder proposal that fared the best was a call for a civil rights and […]

If there was a meme for meme stocks, this week’s choice would be “Kombucha girl,” the viral video of a woman trying the fermented tea drink and having a series of conflicting visceral reactions. After spending four days spiking high enough and fast enough to create evidence of a second short squeeze in less than […]

Who can say no to this face — or the chance to win a million bucks, a college scholarship or a new truck? While half of U.S. adults are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, states like Ohio and New York are trying to appeal to the still-unvaccinated population by offering chances to win big prizes […]

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Will you be putting bacon and hamburgers on the grill this weekend? Or will you be reaching for the veggie burgers? Barbecues will be heating up this Memorial Day weekend — not just from coal or propane — but from the record prices Americans will pay at the grocery store. Beef, pork and corn are […]

Ever wonder why poorly performing or expensive mutual funds are among the investment choices in your 401(k) plan? Well, wonder no more. Researchers have discovered that something called revenue sharing is to blame. According to a just published paper, recordkeepers in defined contribution pension plans are often paid indirectly in the form of revenue sharing […]

Ever wonder why poorly performing or expensive mutual funds are among the investment choices in your 401(k) plan? Well, wonder no more. Researchers have discovered that something called revenue sharing is to blame. According to a just published paper, recordkeepers in defined contribution pension plans are often paid indirectly in the form of revenue sharing […]

Ever wonder why poorly performing or expensive mutual funds are among the investment choices in your 401(k) plan? Well, wonder no more. Researchers have discovered that something called revenue sharing is to blame. According to a just published paper, recordkeepers in defined contribution pension plans are often paid indirectly in the form of revenue sharing […]

Dear Quentin, My mom passed away unexpectedly at 65 on March 5. I am her only child, and she never remarried after divorcing my dad in 1991. She left behind a partner of 31 years — a man she did not marry, in spite of multiple proposals and opportunities, because she did not trust him […]

After more than a year into COVID-19 pandemic, people are still buying personal computers in massive numbers, but PC makers face increasing costs to build new machines while the threat of a sudden dropoff in demand looms. HP Inc., HPQ, -0.22%, Dell Technologies Inc. DELL, +0.04% and Lenovo Group 992, -3.48% all reported strong results […]

Nike Inc. and soccer superstar Neymar split ways last year after the company started investigating an allegation by a Nike employee that the Brazilian athlete had sexually assaulted her, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. In August 2020, Nike NKE, -0.24% didn’t publicly give a reason for […]

Nike Inc. and soccer superstar Neymar split ways last year after the company started investigating an allegation by a Nike employee that the Brazilian athlete had sexually assaulted her, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. In August 2020, Nike NKE, -0.24% didn’t publicly give a reason for […]

Salesforce.com Inc. shares rose in the extended session Thursday after the cloud-based customer-relationship management company topped Wall Street estimates and raised its outlook for the year. Salesforce CRM, -1.68% shares rose 3% after hours, following a 1.7% decline in the regular session to close at $ 225.83. Salesforce reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $ […]

Cooped-up U.S. residents may be eager to take to the skies again, but a growing demand for air travel ahead of the summer may not be enough to get U.S. airlines past last year’s doldrums. While demand for leisure trips might be on the upswing with summer here, U.S. air carriers have seen their expenses […]

Many commodities have reached record highs this year, but silver’s value has failed to keep pace — with prices for the precious and industrial metal notching a modest gain that outperforms an even smaller rise in gold, but pales in comparison to the copper rally. Silver may be trading “more like a store of value […]

Dow futures edged higher while other indexes were struggling for direction Thursday as investors sifted through another fall in weekly first-time applications for jobless benefits as well as an updated look at first-quarter gross domestic product and other economic data. What are major benchmarks doing? Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, +0.50% were […]

Like it or not, stock-market traders need to keep an eye on bitcoin prices or risk getting whipsawed when the popular but volatile digital asset makes big moves, according to a study by Singapore bank DBS. “The upshot is that bitcoin is no longer the fringe asset that it once was, given the higher correlations […]

With the May 17 filing deadline now in the past, you’ve probably filed your 2020 Form 1040. If so, mission accomplished. Good. But could you have done better? Probably. Let’s discuss. I’m still not on the Roth IRA bandwagon C’mon man! I’ve been telling you for years about the wonderfulness of Roth IRAs. But have […]

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Snowflake Inc. shares melted a bit in the extended session Wednesday, after the software company revealed that losses are growing at a similar rate to its booming sales totals. Snowflake SNOW, +2.30% reported a first-quarter loss of $ 203.2 million, or 70 cents a share, more than doubling the loss of $ 93.6 million from […]