Elon Musk’s recent tweets cast doubt on whether the billionaire will follow through with his agreement to buy Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.14% for $44 billion. Twitter’s board, meanwhile, says the agreement remains in effect and it intends to enforce it. As with everything involving the … Read More

Target Corp. TGT -23.89% shares tumbled after the retailer posted lower quarterly earnings and said it would absorb higher costs this year rather than raise its prices. Sales at the Minneapolis-based retailer increased in the most recent quarter as shoppers spent more on food and … Read More

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Carlyle Group Inc.’s acquisition of software company ManTech International Corp. suggests that private equity might be getting more bullish on defense and national-security contractors, research analysts said. Carlyle agreed to buy ManTech for $96 a share in a transaction that values the company at about … Read More

Days after Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that his $44 billion deal for Twitter Inc. was “temporarily on hold” as he looked into the prevalence of bot accounts on the service, Twitter’s current leader sought to address how the company assesses spam activity. … Read More

U.S. stocks fell Monday as investors resumed the selloff that pushed the S&P 500 last week to its sixth consecutive weekly loss.  The broad stock market index 500 fell 0.3% in early trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.3% and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite … Read More

U.S. stocks edged lower, suggesting major indexes will waver after a selloff that has pushed the S&P 500 down for six consecutive weeks.  The S&P 500 slipped 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 0.2% while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index shed 0.6%. The S&P … Read More

Elon Musk’s tweet saying his planned Twitter Inc. acquisition was on hold put the spotlight on questions about fake accounts, which have vexed social-media platforms for years. Mr. Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., said in a tweet early Friday that his $44 … Read More

Ford Motor Co. said it unloaded more shares of Rivian Automotive Inc., further pressuring the electric-truck maker’s battered stock price. Ford sold 7 million Rivian shares at a price of $26.88, the company said in a regulatory filing late Friday. That followed an 8-million-share sale … Read More

One of the biggest names in crypto is bullish on the future of Robinhood Markets. That makes sense. But others might think twice before settling down in Sherwood forest. The disclosure on Thursday that Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old billionaire who founded the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, … Read More