Gold prices advance on Wednesday to a fresh five-week high as banking-sector worries resurfaced with shares of Credit Suisse plunging, reigniting fears about the U.S. banking-sector contagion going global and pushing investors to anticipate a policy pivot from the Federal Reserve.

Sales at U.S. retailers fell in February, pulling back from a big increase in the first month of the new year. Auto dealers and most other retailers posted weaker results.

Three years into the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s Joachim Hombach talked with MarketWatch about the future of vaccines.

The closure of New York based Signature bank, which has a number of crypto clients, is likely to reverberate across the digital asset industry, days after California’s Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, and Silvergate Bank, another crypto-friendly bank, said it would wind down.

U.S. wholesale prices fell 0.1% in February — the second decline in three months — hinting at some easing in stubbornly high inflation.

A top Wall Street economist changes his view on the economic outlook, with banking troubles seen putting a stop to Federal Reserve rate hikes.

3M’s stock has pulled a sharp intraday U-turn to trade lower for a fourth straight session, to close Tuesday at a decade low a day before an investor event.

The U.S. and allies are playing catch-up in the Arctic region. Here are the stocks for that.

Rising household costs are set to remain challenging this year as consumers in the U.S. and Europe run out of pandemic savings and begin to cut discretionary costs, but at least they are feeling less pessimistic than six months ago, according to the latest cost of living survey by J.P. Morgan.

Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse on Wednesday saw its shares fall to a new record low, pressuring the broader market and the rest of the European banking sector days after two banks collapsed in the U.S.