After last quarter’s bloodbath, little gains for department stores may yield big results

Just three months ago, disappointing department store earnings sparked an intense sell-off in retail stocks. In the week following each of their financial reports, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney shaved a combined $3.71 billion from their market...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai cut his vacation short to address the flap over fired engineer

Memo in reply to the former Google engineer who wrote that diversity memo: Don’t cause a public-relations crisis when the boss is trying to take a family vacation. Google fired James Damore after he posted a memo to an internal messageboard that started as a...

South Korea ETF drops into the red after report North Korea can fit nuclear weapon on missiles

The U.S. exchange-traded fund that tracks South Korean stocks erased its gains from Tuesday’s session on a report that North Korea can now fit nuclear weapons into missiles. The iShares MSCI South Korea capped ETF (EWY) was trading 0.1 percent higher before the...

The Dow soars but other gauges are down: explaining this market’s strange divergences

The financial markets are acting really wacky right now. There are some very strange divergences going on. Here are just two that really stick out: 1) The Dow has been a monster in the past couple of weeks, but everything else is flat to down. You can blame this on...