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Stocks closed lower Tuesday as oil prices climbed on fears that fighting in the Middle East could drag on

Shares of Ross Stores jumped on Tuesday after the off-price clothing and home-goods chain said it expects sales gains this year, following what management said was a solid start to the spring shopping season.

Palantir should be able to prove its growing value to the military and quell fears that it’s merely an AI “wrapper,” according to a Rosenblatt analyst.

Best known for its chip business, Broadcom has seen its stock get weighed down by concerns over exposure to software sales.

Financial markets are now pricing in months of higher gasoline prices, and panic is spreading.

This is not yet a repeat of 2008. But dismissing it as a nonevent would be a mistake.

High oil prices can be expected for “a little while,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday, as he predicted a significant fall for crude when the U.S. operation against Iran ends.

Disruption to global energy supplies and the prospect of an ever-widening conflict in the Middle East has sent crude-oil and natural-gas futures higher — and exposed subtle differences on how investors treat the stocks of different energy companies.

Pinterest’s new share-repurchase authorization represents nearly a third of the company’s market cap and signals to one analyst that an activist is satisfied with the company’s strategic vision.

Analysts don’t see any negative shift in fundamentals for memory-chip stocks — and UBS offers a new highly upbeat earnings forecast for Micron specifically.

Investors rushed to buy U.S. stocks on Monday after the U.S. and Israeli bombardment of Iran helped inspire a global selloff. That may have been short-sighted.

Stocks of gold miners and computer-memory makers were hit especially hard, while Best Buy led the S&P 500 with a gain after its earnings report.