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Shaq, Playboy and Nikola are all on the blank-check bandwagon, part of a boom in SPACs that is unsettling, writes columnist James Mackintosh.

Electronic trading giant Citadel Securities sued the Securities and Exchange Commission over the agency's decision to approve a new mechanism for trading stocks at upstart exchange operator IEX Group.

The biggest academic benefits accrue to those who didn't do all that well in high school.

The pandemic and economic uncertainty is upending some of the old rules about building a college fund.

With so much going its way already, one might wonder why Amazon.com keeps bothering with Prime Day. The answer is that it seems to have become a profitable endeavor.

By some estimates, about 40% of U.S. day cares are closed after enrollment fell off in the spring and never fully bounced back.

Technology companies are set to end the year with their greatest share of the stock market ever, topping a dot-com era peak in the latest illustration of their growing influence on global consumers.

These days, you can be forgiven for thinking a wave of bankruptcies is going to hit your portfolio (and your dividends!).

The economic outlook has worsened since the credit-rating firm downgraded the country's sovereign debt in September 2017.