US stocks ended January with a gain, as investors cheered signs of labor costs easing and inflation cooling as they gear up for Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision. Traders continued to grapple with earnings after the stock market closed.
Steaks and hamburgers will likely be more expensive in the next few years with US cattle shrinking to its lowest herd since 2014.
Once-hated world stocks, bonds laced with interest-rate risk and even deadbeat crypto coins have just closed out a big new-year rally.
Trademark infringement has extended to the metaverse — with luxury brand Hermès of Paris Inc. battling digital artist Mason Rothschild in court over the creation and sale of nonfungible tokens that depict images resembling its hard-to-get Birkin bags.
Major League Baseball’s century-old antitrust exemption is “of dubious validity” and should not be expanded by the courts, the Biden administration argued in a legal case by a group of minor league teams.
A courtroom loss by Johnson & Johnson is threatening a legal maneuver developed by a handful of the most profitable companies in the world to fight lawsuits.
Shares of Pfizer Inc. suffered their biggest monthly decline since June 2020 as investors anticipated a troubled path ahead for the drugmaker’s Covid products.
Oil rose and showed signs of shedding its monthslong malaise as factors ranging from the end of the Federal Reserve’s rate increases to swelling demand in China give bulls more ammunition.
A $2.9 billion project to extend Metro-North Railroad service into New York City’s Penn Station has been delayed by about seven months, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said Monday.
Japan is no longer the best-performing wealthy nation when it comes to avoiding Covid deaths.
