Markets

A blistering rally in Tesla Inc.’s share price fueled by news the electric-car maker would join the S&P 500 has catapulted its market capitalization into the No. 6 spot among U.S. companies.

The battle for control of the cloud-based communication, increasingly critical as more Americans work remotely, is heating up amid reports Salesforce.com is in advanced talks to buy workspace messaging platform Slack Technologies.

U.S. stocks wrap a winning week with a basket of new records.

One day after Americans celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday and markets were closed, stock futures traded cautiously early Friday with Asian stocks mixed over questions about the effectiveness of one possible coronavirus vaccine weighing on investor optimism.

Oil prices were mixed on Friday in quiet trade due to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropping more than 1% amid concerns about oversupply and doubts about a vaccine to end the coronavirus pandemic.

Core consumer prices in Tokyo suffered their biggest annual drop in more than eight years, data showed on Friday, an indication the hit to consumption from the coronavirus crisis continued to heap deflationary pressure on the economy.

Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison.

Full-time U.S. operations employees who work for the e-commerce giant between Dec. 1 and Dec. 31 will qualify for a $300 bonus, while part-time employees will receive a $150 bonus.

As an outdoor dining ban from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health took effect Wednesday evening, Board of Supervisors Chair Kathryn Barger accused her government colleagues of "overreaching as it relates to not really gathering public input."

Bitcoin tanked Thursday as its price came within striking distance of an all-time high.

Stock trades made by wealthy Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., raised the eyebrows of the Justice Department this spring, after they came across an email that suggested he was made aware of “upcoming changes” within a company two days prior to a major stock sale. 

Goldman Sachs is using drone technology to conduct virtual tours of companies and close merger and acquisition deals amidst the coronavirus pandemic. 

A number of opposition leaders in Venezuela are financially skirting the Nicolas Maduro regime with an unprecedented public-private partnership known as the "stablecoin solution," as the Venezuelan bolívar faces dizzying depreciation.