Two decades ago, Raymond Lombra, a now-retired economist at Penn State University, warned of a "rounding tax" that could amount to at least $600 million a year if merchants were to routinely add a ...

Shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. sank on Friday after the U.S. Justice Department sued the drugstore chain, alleging that for years it “knowingly” filled millions of prescriptions ...

PayPal’s stock is down 6%, with an analyst noting that growth in branded-checkout volume seems to have trailed buy-side ...

The company saw U.S. switched volumes increase by 10% in the first four weeks of January, compared with 8% growth seen in December. That trend "bodes well" for Mastercard (MA), according to Mizuho ...

MicroStrategy (MSTR) is still technically a business software company: It is included in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software ...

U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday after a blockbuster December jobs report. At first blush, to some investors, that reaction might seem surprising. The labor market is expanding at its fastest pace ...

The surprising strength of the U.S. jobs market and the stickiness of inflation have led economists to mull what was once unthinkable — a possible interest rate rise by the Federal Reserve this ...

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) won’t hurt the short-term prospects of two of the largest defense contractors in the United States during a dangerous geopolitical time ...

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