U.S. stocks finished lower on Wednesday, posting back-to-back losses after a slump in technology shares and a jump in U.S. crude oil prices weighed on Wall Street, while investors absorbed news of deflation in China and looked ahead to the U.S. July consumer price index data due Thursday morning.

There was a strong response to a chart showing credit-card debt as a percentage of deposits.

The Biden administration is poised to announce Wednesday new restrictions on American investments in China that involve sensitive technologies, according to the New York Times.

China’s consumer-price index dropped 0.3% from a year earlier in July, after remaining flat in June, the National Bureau of Statistics said

Lyft and Uber may be in the early stages of a price war, and investors in money-losing Lyft especially need to be prepared.

Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to be one of the anchor investors in chip designer Arm Ltd.’s initial public offering, Reuters reported late Tuesday.

“Premium AMC candies, coming to theaters, are now in the works,” said AMC CEO Adam Aron

Job-posting site reports quarterly earnings above expectations but said employers are more reluctant to pay for job ads and the number of job openings has dwindled.

WeWork disclosed Tuesday that there’s “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operating, as the company seeks to improve its financial positioning.

Axon Enterprises Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Tuesday after the Taser, body-camera and safety-device maker topped Wall Street expectations .