The US stock market is off to the races on Tuesday, extending its rally from the start of the week as all three major indexes kicked the day off sharply higher. The S&P 500, Wall Street’s broadest gauge, opened up 1.3%, while the Dow rose 0.9%, or 330 points. The Nasdaq Composite, which had lagged…

US labor market productivity tanked in the third quarter. Paychecks grew and the number of hours worked jumped, but workers’ output increased only at a moderate pace. Revisions to the data that were initially published a month ago show that the productivity drop was even worse than feared, falling 5.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis.…

Doug Parker will retire in March as CEO of American Airlines, the airline that he made the world’s largest through a series of mergers that led to a massive consolidation of the US airline industry. Parker, 60, will be succeeded by Robert Isom, who has served as the company’s president for the last five years.…

China has decided it’s time to loosen its purse strings and pump money into the economy in a bid to stave off threats to the recovery. The People’s Bank of China on Monday said it would cut the reserve requirement ratio for most banks by half a percentage point, starting December 15. That move, which…

How you let employees go matters for your company’s reputation. Consider Better.com’s CEO, who just fired roughly 900 employees in a very brief Zoom call and quickly faced backlash. No one will ever react positively to hearing they are terminated — whether it’s due to balance sheet problems or their own performance. So it’s incumbent…

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Market strategists are predicting that 2022 will finally be the year when investors choose value stocks -— like banking, oil, consumer, industrial and healthcare companies — over Big Techs, such as Apple, Amazon and Facebook owner Meta. It’s been a common refrain among stock pickers for several years.…

Three years after ditching Qdoba Mexican Eats, Jack in the Box is scooping up Del Taco in a $575 million deal. The deal, which is expected to close early next year, doubles down on Jack in the Box’s success with tacos. Jack in the Box serves an eclectic array of food from burgers to egg…

It’s a strong start to the week on Wall Street, where the Dow finished up more than 600 points amid a rebound from last week’s losses. The Dow finished up 1.9%, or some 647 points, while the broader S&P 500 climbed nearly 1.2%. The Nasdaq Composite, which faced the steepest selloff Friday, continued to be…

The shell company that is facilitating former President Donald Trump’s return to Wall Street disclosed Monday that federal regulators are investigating the deal. In October, Trump announced a new media venture that would “stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.” That new entity, chaired by the former president, agreed to go public through a…

Hong Kong has warned the Wall Street Journal that it may have broken electoral law by “scaremongering” in a recent editorial about the upcoming vote for the city’s legislative council. On Monday, the US newspaper printed a letter from Hong Kong’s Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Erick Tsang, under the headline “Hong Kong Issues…

Over the past week, as markets were churning on fears that the Omicron variant could derail the global economic recovery, bitcoin prices stayed surprisingly stable. Then came the weekend. What’s happening: The cryptocurrency at one point plunged more than 20% on Saturday. It’s now trading at roughly $48,600, down from about $57,000 at the beginning…

Kentucky Fried Chicken is testing a new dipping sauce in three US cities. Beginning Monday, customers in Washington, Atlanta and Dallas can add “Sweet Hot Capital City” mambo sauce to their orders for a limited time. The chain describes the flavor as “sweet, spicy and tangy,” and one that “perfectly compliments” its fried chicken. DC…

Shares of Evergrande plummeted to a new record low on Monday as the Chinese developer once again teetered on the brink of default. Evergrande’s stock closed down 20% at 1.81 Hong Kong dollars ($0.23), the lowest since it listed in Hong Kong in 2009. It has lost 87% of its value since the start of…