To some, Dow 20,000 is a cause for celebration. To others, it’s just a fascination. For shrewd investors, it’s an opportune time to consider how expensive stocks are. This chart shows that the price-to-earnings ratio for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.04% has never been higher (going back…

Fandango, which allows moviegoers to purchase tickets online, was created for Americans too impatient to wait 5 or 10 minutes in line for movie tickets. Now imagine people who must wait 5 or 10 years for a green card and the freedom to change employers easily, move about the country and later become…

Five Minutes of Management 5MM: SHRM’s Leader Henry “Hank” Jackson Is Leaving January 27, 2017 by Rick Bell Workforce editors Frank Kalman and Rick Bell bid farewell to SHRM’s CEO and President Henry “Hank” Jackson, who is stepping down in December after six years on the job. They also discuss the…

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, with his wife Priscilla Chan. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is dropping a series of property lawsuits over his ownership of a sizeable piece of beachfront land in Hawaii. The decision follows public outcry on…

Corporate insiders are betting that Dow 20,000 will be just a way station on the road to higher levels. That’s surprising, because insiders normally sell into strength — just as they tend to buy in the wake of weakness. They’re contrarians, in other words. That they’re not selling into recent…

As you may have heard, within months President Trump will begin construction on a giant wall along our southern border, sealing us off from Mexico and forever guaranteed the safety of our nation's residents. /realizes remote batteries are dead, fires pistol at TV in attempt to change channel The…

Alphabet Inc. disappointed investors with its earnings report Thursday because of a one-time charge related to taxes, but Google’s parent company will make an important change to its financial reporting that should prevent this particular pitfall in the future. Alphabet GOOGL, -0.17% GOOG, -0.42%…

Teenage angst still pays out well, especially if you’re a Cobain. Frances Bean Cobain, the 24-year-old daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and singer Courtney Love, was recently named the face of Marc Jacobs. Cobain, who will front advertisements for the LVMH-controlled MC, -0.50% brand’s…

StockSnap IO Winston Churchill once said, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” For social entrepreneurs, this quote is understood at the core. If you’re dedicating your career to changing your community or society at large, you’re likely in your line of work for its…

The Practical Employer Make Password Security a Priority for Your Employees in 2017 It would take 16 billion years to crack my current network password. My challenge to each of your employees is to top me. January 25, 2017 by Do you know the top 10 passwords used to “secure” enterprise-connected…

When you think of shopping on eBay, the first things that come to mind are probably second-hand clothes, video games, phones, cameras and other household electronics. What doesn’t spring to mind is a Caribbean island. That is until now, however. Willow Reed, a British pub owner, has listed her…

Analysts see PayPal Holdings Inc. riding a trend in consumer adoption of cashless payments, but it may need to show a big jump in growth for investors to truly believe in the stock. The payments company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings after the market closes Thursday. Here’s what to…

Technology How Feedback Apps Can Help Improve Employee Retention There are reasons to replace annual satisfaction surveys with a mobile feedback app; chief among them is employee satisfaction. January 24, 2017 by Anastasia Yaskevich Mobile feedback apps can offer different questions for every day of…

Until Tokyo Markets Close Currencies Europe Markets London Markets Home Industries Automobiles The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Jan 23, 2017 10:21 p.m. ET Share Deal with AutoFi aims to make car-buying experience easier Bloomberg News By Peter Rudegeair…

Until Tokyo Markets Open US Market Snapshot Currencies Commodities Home Economy & Politics The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Jan 23, 2017 5:39 p.m. ET Share Republican Pai beings free-market approach, seeks to end many regulations Bloomberg News Ajit Pai,…

Working Well Mindfulness to Help Mothers Stop from Losing Their Mind Mindfulness may be an especially useful tool for mothers returning to work after maternity leave. January 23, 2017 by Mindfulness could aid new mothers returning to work after maternity leave. The concept of mindfulness is already…

U.S. authorities are investigating whether Yahoo Inc.’s two massive data breaches should have been reported sooner to investors, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could prove to be a major test in defining when a company is required to disclose a hack. The Securities and Exchange…

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: A persons finger is posed next to the Whatsapp app logo on an iPhone on August 3, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) When the Guardian published a report on an alleged WhatsApp backdoor last week, it elicited both fear of state surveillance and…

Shutterstock What do firm leaders think will happen to marketing this year? To find out, I turned to CEOs who represent a variety of different industries and companies. Marketers will begin focusing on PR tech: Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, CEO, AirPR We can't talk about MarTech without talking about…

Work in Progress The Salesforce Pitch for Equity, Equality What is the distinction between "diversity" and "equality"? January 21, 2017 by Kris Dunn If you don’t like the answer, you can always change the question. Especially if you have money. Lots of money. There are a lot of companies across…

Dear Moneyologist, This isn’t as earth-shaking as questions from readers’ whose relatives die without wills and other subjects you cover, but it’s a bit of an ethical dilemma for us and I’m sure some other folks have wondered what to do in a similar situation. We often order things from Amazon.com.…

Its lead may have narrowed over the past year, but South Korea still reigns supreme on Bloomberg’s Innovation Index , which ranks world economies using metrics such as R&D spending and the concentration of high-tech companies. South Korea, home to Samsung 005930, -0.75% and Hyundai 005380, +0.66%…