US Producer Prices Rose in May - Wall Street Journal

Carl Icahn has doubled down on a fight to take control of Occidental Petroleum Corp., buying up more shares of the embattled oil-and-gas producer in recent days as its stock price plummets......»»

Global stocks and oil prices rebounded Tuesday after historic losses suffered on Monday. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 4.2%, the Wall Street Journal reported. Monday's results were worst since the financial crisis, and Wis.....»»

Oil prices hit fresh multiyear lows Friday morning after an OPEC+ meeting in Austria failed to reach any consensus on deeper cuts to oil production, The Wall Street Journal reported. read more.....»»

Ebay Inc. stock rose 2.6% in Friday trading after a report from The Wall Street Journal said there's potential for a sale of the e-commerce company's classified ad business. The business could be worth about $10 billion......»»

World stocks traded just below record highs Monday, pausing ahead of this week's central bank meetings, economic data and earnings, while oil prices rose to their highest in over a week after blockades began shutting down two Libyan oilfields......»»

World stocks traded just below record highs Monday, pausing ahead of this week's central bank meetings, economic data and earnings, while oil prices rose to their highest in over a week after blockades began shutting down two Libyan oilfields......»»

Regulators are taking steps to loosen the control that big U.S. exchanges exert over the flow of real-time stock prices to the public in an effort to lower costs for investors......»»

Gold prices rose and a gauge of global equity markets hit a record high on Thursday in light holiday trade as a year-end rally in stocks remained on course, with optimism over U.S.-China trade helping drive Wall Street to records......»»

Total U.S. retail sales for Nov. 1 through Christmas Eve rose 3.4% from a year earlier, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks both online and in-store spending with all forms of payment......»»

St. Louis-based coal producer Foresight Energy LP has asked bondholders for more time to negotiate after missing an interest payment and starting restructuring talks, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The company gave bondholders until T.....»»

Reuters/Jim Young Chicago's commercial real estate values posted the worst performance of all major cities in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported, even falling behind protest-stricken Hong Kong. The prices of offices, retail outlets, hotels, and.....»»

Saudi Aramco’s share sale has attracted bids worth $44.3 billion as of Friday, about 1.7 times the amount the kingdom’s government plans to raise in what is on course to be the world’s largest listing when it formally prices next week......»»

Coffee prices have jumped more than 25% in recent weeks, lifted by signs of shrinking production in Latin America......»»

Tyrone Siu/Reuters Investors from mainland China bought nearly $20 billion worth of Hong Kong stocks in the months since June, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Chinese buyers are enticed by cheap prices, as antigovern.....»»

OPEC said Tuesday it expects its oil supplies to fall continuously over the next five years, suggesting the cartel may need to keep cutting output to stabilize prices amid a bigger-than-expected U.S. production boom and sluggish oil demand......»»

A tight labor market and the draw of equal pay have more women pursuing long-haul truck driving.  The American Trucking Association says the number of female truck drivers rose 68 percent between 2010 and 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal. .....»»

Wall Street equity indexes ended a volatile session lower on Monday while oil prices gave up early gains and the dollar rose as investors looked for safety ahead of U.S.-China trade talks......»»

Value-added industrial output in China rose 4.4% in August from a year earlier, slower than the 4.8% increase in July, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday......»»

Technology stocks led the Wall Street into the red on Tuesday as recessionary fears, fueled by declining producer prices from China, dampened investor risk appetite......»»

Revenue from recorded music in the U.S. rose 18% to $5.4 billion in the first half of the year, driven by growth in subscriptions to streaming services.....»»