A pair of female “Survivor” contestants say they’re sorry for taking advantage of a third woman’s complaints about unwanted physical contact in order to advance in the game. The apologies came after a two-hour Wednesday night episode of the popular CBS show, in which the women said that a male …

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi arrives at the New York Stock Exchange as his company makes its initial public offering, Friday, May 10, 2019. Richard Drew | AP Uber’s stock is trading well below the price it debuted at earlier this year but Barclays made the case for how the ridesharing …

Applied Materials is surging. The company and fellow chipmaker Nvidia boosted the SMH semiconductor ETF on Thursday after topping quarterly estimates. Those gains add to a major comeback for the semis space. The ETF, whose top components include Intel and AMD, has rocketed 9% in the past month. Applied Materials jumped 5.5% in Friday’s …

Trading Costco here may be worth the cost. So says Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com, who found the recent action in the consumer staples sector as a whole — and Costco’s stock in particular — to be worth investors’ attention. “I’m seeing the overall market being a little overbought, which …

Global debt hit a record high of over $250 trillion in the first half of this year, led by a surge in borrowings in the U.S. and China, according to a new report. The report, released by the International Institute of Finance (IIF) on Thursday, showed that global debt surged …

James I. Robertson Jr., an authority on the Civil War who published several dozen deeply researched books that humanized historical figures like Stonewall Jackson, died on Nov. 2 at a hospital in Richmond, Va. He was 89. His wife, Elizabeth Lee Robertson, said the cause was complications of metastatic cancer. …

As the stock market heads for all-time highs, some retirement savers are reaping the benefits. The number of Fidelity 401(k) plans with a balance of $1 million or more jumped to a record 200,000 as of Sept. 30, up 7% from a year ago, according to a new report by …

Starbucks’ Reserve Roastery in Chicago Source: Starbucks Here are the most important things to know about Friday before you hit the door. 1. Read on the American consumer As retailers gear up for the all-important holiday shopping season, we’ll get a read on the state of the American consumer when …

Carl Medlock’s Tesla repair shop Tesla, which has been accused of sacrificing quality as it ramps up production of the Model 3, is cranking out more reliable vehicles, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. “What we’ve seen with the Model 3 is that they had a lot of …

One group of stocks has led the market this year: the homebuilders. The ITB home construction ETF has rocketed more than 50% higher this year, catching up after cracking in 2018. “We looked at all the big homebuilders, and you can see how they’ve well outperformed the S&P 500 year …