OPINION: For a market that has typically been seen as concentrating on the future, investors can sometimes take a surprisingly backward view. Consider their upbeat reaction to Alphabet’s earnings, reflected in the stock’s jump Wednesday.

OPINION: The U.S. Fed has yet to make the comprehensive analytical shift from a world dominated for years by deficient aggregate demand to the current one where deficient aggregate supply plays an important role.

Consumer payments-focused startups Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm have a had a good run at changing how people shop and growing rapidly until recently. Now, much bigger players look like they’re gearing up to streamroll the little guys.

Walmart just highlighted the dark side of inflation.

With the home becoming an increasingly acceptable office for white-collar employees, new graduates won't have to make a beeline for the big city to find high-paying jobs.

The weakness in the economy spawned in part by the liquidation of bloated product inventories has only just begun, Gary Shilling writes

It looks as if Twitter will sell itself to Elon Musk for US$43 billion, which would make the deal one of the largest leveraged buyouts in Wall Street history and give Tesla’s steward a powerful social media perch.

Easter 2022 arrives this week with its usual egg-hunting and chocolate-bunny traditions, but also with some bitter new realities.

The disruptions of the COVID pandemic have prompted workers to reconsider how they can be most productive and forced companies to revisit some long-held beliefs. A few organizations are floating a new possibility: a four-day workweek.

OPINION: In oil markets, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has a reputation a little like the one the Russian armed forces used to have — vast and fearsome, a rival you’d be unwise to tangle with.