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Signet Jewelers’ stock surged Thursday, after the diamond seller beat quarterly profit expectations, and indicated it was on course to break a long streak of same-store sales declines as marriage proposals are rising.

Labor market has cooled and hiring has slowed

Kroger’s CEO says the company is still committed to closing its merger with Albertsons, despite regulatory pushback.

An often-overlooked corner of the stock market is poised for big gains after the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, according to a team of stock-market strategists at Goldman Sachs.

Mastercard boosting use of artificial intelligence to spot potentially compromised credit cards.

You may think financial advisers only want wealthy clients. But some take hardship cases—and even work pro bono.

The private Polaris Dawn space mission made history by completing the first commercial spacewalk early Thursday.

Financial autonomy and individual freedoms must be protected.

General Mills, parent to brands including Cheerios, Nature Valley, Blue Buffalo, Häagen-Dazs, Old El Paso, Pillsbury and Betty Crocker, is expecting the deal to be about 3% dilutive to adjusted per-share earnings in the first year after close.

A previously unloved corner of the U.S. stock market has quietly emerged as one of the top performers on the S&P 500, reshaping Wall Street over the past few months. 

Oil futures extended a rebound off their lowest levels since December 2021 on Thursday as investors assessed the potential hit to output in the wake of Hurricane Francine, but gains were capped by continued worries over the outlook for crude demand.

Key indicators are mixed and market swings are more volatile.