Shares of Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.16% inched 0.16% higher to $335.94 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.20% falling 0.20% to 4,273.79 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.59% falling 0.59% to 33,562.86. This was…

Shares of Netflix Inc. NFLX, +0.77% inched 0.77% higher to $403.54 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.20% falling 0.20% to 4,273.79 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.59% falling 0.59% to 33,562.86. Netflix Inc.…

Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.70% rose 1.70% to $217.61 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.09% falling 0.09% to 13,229.43 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.59% falling 0.59% to 33,562.86. This was the…

Blackstone stock fell Monday on evident disappointment that it will have to wait to join the S&P 500. While there has been speculation that Blackstone (ticker: BX) would soon be included in the index, S&P Dow Jones Indices said Friday that security software maker Palo Alto Networks (ticker: PANW) was…

The artificial-intelligence craze hasn’t moved Citigroup’s year-end target for the S&P 500, but the bank’s equity analysts are keeping an eye out for what they’ve labeled the “p-AI-n trade.” That would be the pain trade inflicted by AI enthusiasm or a potential pause or pivot in the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate…

Manchester United’s stock fell Monday as a protracted takeover battle for the iconic English soccer club rumbled into its eighth month. Shares of operator Manchester United Ltd. MANU, -4.09% ended Monday’s session down 4.1%, compared with S&P 500’s SPX, -0.20% decline of 0.2%. Sheikh Jassim, the chair of Qatar Islamic…

The role of a vast network of underground fungi can suck up roughly one-third of the Earth-warming carbon emissions that burning coal, oil and gas puts off each year. It’s an amount previously unknown and that potentially can be expanded, a team of researchers said Monday. Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible…

Tech “visionaries” have been attempting to sell the world on a virtual-reality future for decades, largely using videogames and overwrought hype as a hook, but Apple Inc. took a more grown-up — and exciting — approach on Monday. When Apple AAPL, -0.76% finally showed off its much-anticipated augmented-reality headset, executives…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, with a range of securities violations on Monday. This has struck a blow at the heart of crypto and the effect is rippling across markets. Bitcoin was down more than 5% in afternoon trading to…

Shares of Circor International Inc. rocketed toward a near five-year high Monday after the flow-control-products company announced a deal to be acquired by KKR & Co. in a cash deal valued at $1.6 billion, including debt. Under the terms of the deal, Circor shareholders will receive $49 for each Circor…