Good news for consumers is bad news for Kroger.As prices that shoppers pay for groceries stabilize or fall, the supermarket operator's sales are sagging.On Friday, the company posted fiscal second-quarter sales that missed Wall Street's expectations. The company stuck with its full-year outlook, but said the slowing rate of...
The Kroger supermarket chain's headquarters is shown in Cincinnati, Ohio.Lisa Baertlein | ReutersKroger on Friday said it has agreed to pay $1.2 billion to U.S. states, local governments and Native American tribes to settle the majority of claims that it fueled the opioid epidemic through lax oversight of its...
Used cars are offered for sale at a dealership on July 11, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Prices of wholesale used vehicles may have bottomed for the year, as Cox Automotive said prices last month increased for the first time since March.Cox reported Friday its...
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. west coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a new...
The DocuSign website on a laptop in Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 1, 2021.Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in premarket trading.Kroger — The retailer fell 2.8% following a mixed second-quarter report. Kroger reported earnings per share ex-tems of 96 cents, beating the...
Anti-theft locked beauty products with customer service button at Walgreens pharmacy, Queens, New York.Lindsey Nicholson | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesA range of retailers are again blaming shrink as one of the reasons they saw another quarter of lackluster profits.But some of those companies have started to offer...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. is confronting a potential existential challenge in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Judges presiding over the case have raised serious constitutional concerns regarding Finra’s authority to enforce securities regulations. To add to the pressure on Finra, William Barr, the former Attorney General under...
The global exchange-traded funds market was worth $7.3 trillion at the end of the second quarter of 2023, a rise of 5.8% from the previous quarter thanks to inflows of $136.6 billion and market appreciation worth $265 billion. Inflows included $89 billion to equity strategies, $45.9 billion to fixed income,...
Another new wealth management firm has been born in Houston, Texas, as financial advisors Ed Winegar and Gregory Berg, CPWA, CPFA, CRPC TM, CKA, launch their own firm with LPL Financial’s employee advisor channel. The duo was previously with Merrill Lynch where they served approximately $205 million in advisory, brokerage...