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Shares of ultra-discount carrier Spirit Airlines Inc. sank after hours on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the airline is talking over the conditions of a possible bankruptcy filing.

Jobs data still holds sway when it comes to the Fed and interest rates, making it crucial to a jittery market

Consumer advocate group says the merger between Mars and Kellanova would create yet another massive player in the food industry, restricting competition and giving the combined company more leeway to charge consumers more at the grocery checkout.

The health insurer has lost 24% in the week to date after it said the government is set to cut the rating on a large Medicare Advantage plan.

OpenAI just became one of the highest-valued privately held companies with its latest funding round, but it has a lot to live up to, amid ever- increasing competition.

Shares of Levi Strauss & Co. slid after hours on Wednesday after the jeans maker tempered its full-year sales forecast, even as management said its core Levi’s brand was leading the way toward improvement and called out potential gains from its new partnership with Beyoncé.

An outage at Bank of America left some of the bank’s customers unable to access their accounts on Wednesday, while others saw what they said were erroneous balances of $0, according to a flood of reports on social media.

A strike along dozens of East Coast ports could cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars a day, leaving things like cars, furniture, alcohol and pharmaceuticals stuck on ships, while potentially raising shipping costs for businesses and consumers.

Drugstore chain CVS Health Corp. in recent weeks has been reviewing its options as a company — among them a potential breakup — the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Apple Inc.’s stock surged Monday after J.P. Morgan made an upbeat call on iPhone availability, with improvement led by the iPhone 16 base models.

Cerebras Systems Inc., a maker of chips and other tech infrastructure for artificial intelligence, filed for an initial public offering on Monday, as more startups look to make a name for themselves in a space occupied by tech juggernauts like Nvidia Corp.

Markets wrapped up a strong third quarter for stocks and bonds, as investors appeared more convinced that the Federal Reserve may pull off a soft landing. Still, gold surged.

Wall Street is about to flip its calendar to the most volatile month of a presidential election year, but the record-setting rally seen in the third quarter has investors pondering whether the big gains have staying power.

U.S. government debt finished September with a fifth straight month of gains, putting in its best performance in up to 14 years, even after an extended selloff on Monday when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell implied officials are in no hurry to cut interest rates.