Marketplace Stories

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced new rules today requiring companies like Afterpay and Klarna to investigate when customers dispute a charge, and issue refunds for returned products. They’ll also have to provide periodic billing statements.

This year, bigger-than-expected inflation reports are playing a role in determining when companies decide to borrow money by issuing bonds.

Lowe’s reported that first quarter sales are down from the same period last year, but spending by professionals is up.

The pending departure of JPMorgan Chase boss Jaime Dimon highlights the difficulties of replacing the person at the top.

Rising costs have long been a concern for Americans. What’s changed is how the government intervenes in prices, economist Carola Binder writes.

Hundreds of vendors were caught off guard when Outfox Hospitality abruptly shut down stores in Illinois, Texas and the Washington, D.C., area.

The Fed’s annual Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking doesn’t include breakout data on American Indian and Alaska Native households. New research aims to fill that data gap.

In Houston, the energy capital of the world, low prices are not a given. Experts would like to see more capacity and more conservation.

The Coast Guard expects to allow the same size and kinds of cargo ships to come into the port that were able to prior to the bridge collapse.

The sector hasn’t really recovered from the pandemic closures of their dining rooms, when “they lost their core business model.”