The Covid-19 pandemic has set up a unique comparison for company earnings, highlighting those that have managed to increase sales in a difficult environment while managing to avoid discounting their … [+336 chars]

Heres what were watching ahead of Fridays trading action.
U.S. stock futures edged lower Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track to end the week with muted gains after notching its ninth record clo… [+798 chars]

LiveUpdated Feb. 12, 2021, 9:57 a.m. ET
Feb. 12, 2021, 9:57 a.m. ET
Heres what you need to know:
To understand how severe the pandemics economic toll has been in Britain, you have to stretch back … [+16902 chars]

LONDON The U.K. economy contracted by9.9% in 2020, its largest annual contraction since records began,as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged economic activity.
In the final quarter of the year, gross d… [+2516 chars]

Reddit traders had a new target this week: cannabis stocks.
Before falling back on Thursday, shares of Tilray rallied over 50% on Wednesday, while Aurora Cannabis jumped around 20%. Both stocks then… [+806 chars]

FILE PHOTO: A lone customer seeks assistance at an American Airlines check-in counter at Washington’s Reagan National airport during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, in Washington, U.S. April 29,… [+1805 chars]

The family of Chloe Wiegand, a toddler who fatally plunged 150 feet to her death from an 11th-story window of Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas cruise ship, is seeking to sanction the cruise line… [+5681 chars]

Federal prosecutors and regulators are investigating whether market manipulation or other types of misconduct fueled the rapid rise last month in prices of stocks such as GameStop Corp. GME -0.39% an… [+3368 chars]

A few Tesla Inc. insiders have had a busy couple of days this week, including one investor who is close to Chief Executive Elon Musk and again showing some good timing in his trades. Thats Elon Musks… [+3364 chars]