Advanced Micro Devices Inc. relieved concerns about its recent growth Wednesday by producing more profit than expected and projecting that revenue growth would accelerate, sending shares higher in after-hours trading. AMD AMD, -3.77%  reported first-quarter net income of $81 million, or 8 cents a share, on sales of $1.65 billion, up about 40% from $1.34 → Read More

With the yield curve at its flattest in several years, some investors and analysts have suggested the Treasury Department should sell more longer-dated debt to keep its borrowing costs down. But Sam Elprince, a fixed-income analyst at Morgan Stanley, said suddenly issuing more longer-dated bonds to take advantage of a flat yield curve would break → Read More

A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars — because the law doesn’t protect against political discrimination. Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek, 31, was bounced from a West Village watering hole in January 2017, just after Trump took the oath of office, for wearing a “Make America → Read More

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Facebook Inc. reported top and bottom line results late Wednesday that beat Wall Street analyst estimates, even amid the company public relations struggle following revelations of improperly handled data of 87 million of its members. See full story. Americans are hoarding money in their checking accounts — why that could point to → Read More

Facebook Inc. reported top- and bottom-line results late Wednesday that beat Wall Street analyst estimates, even amid the company public-relations struggle following revelations of the improperly handled data of 87 million users. The data-privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica broke in mid-March, but the company appeared to shrug off those concerns and posted $4.99 billion in → Read More

ConocoPhillips won a $2 billion arbitration against Venezuela’s state-controlled oil company over the 2007 expropriation of two oil projects, though the Houston-based oil producer faces obstacles collecting the award. The ruling on Wednesday, by a tribunal representing the International Chamber of Commerce, will have to be confirmed by the U.S. District Court in New York. → Read More

WASHINGTON — French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking before a joint session of Congress, warned the U.S. against retreating from the global community. Macron said the U.S. has a special duty in building the “21st-century world order.” “The United States is the one who invented this multilateralism,” Macron said. “You are the one now who has → Read More

This column provides a daily update on key presidential actions as well as comments, whether spoken aloud or on Twitter, by President Trump. Like the stock market, the deadline for Trump Today action is 4 p.m. Eastern Time, even as we acknowledge that substantive news can and does occur after hours. President Donald Trump met → Read More

NFL team owners privately laid into President Trump for his attacks on players “taking a knee” during an extraordinary summit with league athletes and executives in October, according to a new report. “The problem we have is, we have a president who will use [the kneeling] as fodder to do his mission that I don’t → Read More

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note swept further beyond the 3% handle on Wednesday, notching a level not seen since late December of 2013, as traders increasingly bet the Federal Reserve will have to raise interest rates more aggressively than the two or three more times Wall Street had anticipated in 2018. What → Read More