Pfizer to buy weight-loss drug developer Metsera
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pfizer on Monday said it would buy weight loss drugmaker Metsera in an up to $7.3 billion deal, including future payments, as it scrambles to win a slice in the booming obesity drug market. Pfizer said it will pay an initial $47.50 a share in […]
Brain drain? How Wall Street is reacting to $100,000 charge for H-1B visas
New Trump administration rules that will require a $100,000 fee for a type of visa used extensively in the technology industry brought fears of an exodus of talent that will sap the potential for growth.
Here’s why Build-A-Bear Workshop is thriving even as retail struggles
A Build-A-Bear Workshop in Herald Square, New York on Sept. 16, 2025. Laya Neelakandan | CNBC For 26-year-old Cammie Craycroft’s friends, the perfect birthday activity this summer was a group trip to Build-A-Bear Workshop. Craycroft said she and her friends grew up going to the retailer, which is known for its experiential shopping product where […]
Why the bull market for stocks may now hinge on the 10-year Treasury yield
With stocks at record highs, Ron Albahary Albahary at Laird Norton has been leaning into ways to hedge volatility while “hedging is cheap.”
U.S. stock futures dip after Friday’s record highs, even as ‘the market has learned to thrive in ambiguity’
U.S. stock-market futures were little changed on Sunday, after the three major indexes all closed at record highs on Friday.
Gen Z fell in love with high-yield cash savings. The Fed just crashed the party.
Interest-rate cuts could be especially tough on younger investors, who may hold more cash than they should.
Now that the Fed has cut rates, investors can focus on what really matters for markets
Wall Street analysts have been raising corporate earnings estimates all summer, while the outlook for economic growth has improved despite a slowdown in the labor market.
Social Security’s dead people and Medicare’s fraudsters are real. But stopping them won’t rescue the federal budget.
Comptroller of the U.S. makes rare public comments
Social Security is on track to be insolvent in less than 10 years — but its commissioner says there’s ‘plenty of time’ to find a solution
The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance fund is expected to run out of money by 2033 at the latest, recent reports show.
I’m 88 and leaving my $450,000 estate to my son because he has children. Is that wrong?
“My other children have relationships, but they are unmarried and have no children.”
