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Retailer opens 249 new stores, books a 1.5% increase in traffic and says its Family Dollar review is on track.

Sales of new cars and trucks rose in November to the highest level in three-and-a-half years, helped by bigger incentives for car buyers as dealers sought to clear out excess inventories.

U.S. businesses created a solid 146,000 new jobs in November, paycheck company ADP said, in another sign the labor market has stabilized after big cooldown over the summer.

Hormel was impacted by lower prices for whole-bird turkeys this year, as well as a production interruption at a Planters facility in Virginia.

JetBlue raises its guidance to reflect higher-than-expected bookings in November and December.

The company is dealing with “softer consumer demand outside of key selling periods,” as well as the need for more promotions.

Robert Ross: ‘If a stock is not going up in a bull market like this, it’s not something I want to own.’

Oil futures rose slightly on Wednesday, finding support as investors look ahead to a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies this week that’s expected to further delay the lifting of production curbs and as the U.S. deepened sanctions on Iranian exports.

GM’s 50-50 joint venture with SAIC Motor Corp. faces ‘market challenges and competitive conditions.’

Difficult-to-short stocks often trade at artificially inflated, unsustainable prices.

Germany DAX index reached 20,000 this week, its first-ever foray into that level.

A so-called balanced portfolio is anything but given the correlation of stock and bond returns as well as concentration in stocks.