By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 5/8/2025 12:53 PM
Krispy Kreme’s stock suffering a record plunge after the doughnut seller scraps its dividend, reassesses its McDonald’s arrangement and reports downbeat results. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 5/8/2025 12:23 PM
Citing effects of tariffs, Vital Farms tells retail partners like Kroger, Target and Whole Foods that it will raise egg prices at least 10% this month. ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration has made a deal with the U.K. on trade, offering a bit of relief to investors who have spent weeks waiting for such agreements. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Jules Rimmer | 5/8/2025 5:41 AM
Danish shipping and logistics giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk and Japanese auto giant Toyota each sounded the alarm on tariffs on Thursday as both lowered their guidance. ... Read full Story
Michael Bolton has opened up about the ways he relied on his family at his Connecticut residence during his aggressive brain cancer treatment. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Claudia Assis | 5/7/2025 8:21 PM
Carvana Co. late Wednesday set an ambitious long-term goal for itself and reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, and the stock rallied despite economic uncertainty and demand concerns. ... Read full Story
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday remained in a holding pattern on interest rates, while warning about more uncertainty in the economic outlook and higher risks of unemployment and inflation in the new high-tariff U.S. economy. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Bill Peters | 5/7/2025 6:21 PM
Shares of Dutch Bros Inc. were up after hours on Wednesday after the drive-through coffee chain expressed greater optimism over its sales this year, citing “continued momentum,” even as its older and much bigger rival, Starbucks Corp., tries to turn itself around. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Jessica Hall | 5/7/2025 5:56 PM
Fifteen Republican members of Congress took aim at proposed customer-service changes at the Social Security Administration, while the House Committee on Ways and Means invited the newly confirmed Social Security commissioner to outline plans for ensuring benefits get paid on time. ... Read full Story
“Imagine, for example, that the gods decided to bestow upon Sisyphus a modicum of mercy. The rock, the hill, the never-ending, pointless labor all remained nonnegotiable as far as the gods were concerned, but the mercy of the gods was to change Sisyphus’s attitude to these things. … He is never happier than when rolling large boulders up steep hills, and the gods have offered him the eternal fulfillment of this strange desire.” — Mark Rowlands, The Word of Dog: What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us About Living a Good Life, 2024
Did you know?
It wouldn’t be wrong to say that the English language has more than a modicum of words referring to a small amount of something—it has oodles, from smidgen to soupçon. But while modicum can be applied to countable or physical things (like words or salt) it is almost always applied instead to abstract concepts like respect, success, control, hope, dignity, or privacy. Modicum traces back to the Latin noun modus, meaning “measure,” which just so happens to be the ancestor of more than a modicum of English words, from moderate and modify to mold and commode.