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Top Stories : 2016April01Friday

Six Flags is making roller coasters cool again

Four things you better worry about this earnings season

Fitbit Blaze is beating Apple Watch on Amazon

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: What startup will try to thaw the tech IPO freeze?

Market Extra: April is the cruelest month? Not for Wall Street

Tax Guy: What to do if you inherit an IRA

Tax Guy: Here’s how much capital gains you’ll pay

NewsWatch: Apple’s up-and-down journey to middle age

Bond Report: 10-year Treasury yields post largest weekly decline in 2 months

Airbnb users just want to feel like they’re staying with mom

Real-time headlines : 2016April01Friday

Obama: Treasury's Lew to provide claritity to firms seeking to do business with Iran

Obama: Will take time for companies to feel comfortable returning to Iran

S&P 500 posts biggest weekly gain in a month

S&P 500, Dow hit fresh highs of 2016

U.S. stocks end higher, book weekly gains

Nasdaq gains 0.8% to 4,906

Dow up 0.6% at 17,785; S&P 500 rises 0.5% to 2,070

Dow climbs more than 100 points as stocks extend late-afternoon gains

WTI oil logs lowest settlement since March 15

May WTI oil settles at $36.79/bbl, down $1.55, or 4%

Market Pulse : 2016April01Friday

SunEdison falls more than 50% after report of bankruptcy plans

U.S. stocks end higher after jobs, economic data

Oil futures settle at a more than two week low

Gold futures settle with a loss of 1%

Baker Hughes reports weekly U.S. oil-rig count down by 10

Airline shares slump on Deutsche Bank downgrade

NYSE suspends trading of Amazon, Alphabet, 6 other securities

U.S. stocks open lower after solid jobs report, oil drop

Ford March U.S. sales rise 8% to 254,711 vehicles

Grubhub jokes about plans to deliver food and offer rides, a la Uber

Breaking News: 2016April01Friday

Live: President Obama's post-nuclear-summit news conference

U.S. stocks finish an up week on a positive note

Crude oil drops 4% as Saudi Arabia casts doubt on output freeze

Oil futures continue to trade lower after latest rig-count data

California and New York pass $15 minimum-wage laws

U.S. stock benchmarks shake off crude-oil yoke by midmorning

U.S. consumer sentiment dips: University of Michigan

ISM manufacturing reading returns to positive territory in March

U.S. economy adds 215,000 jobs in March; unemployment rate is 5%

BlackBerry shares slide in premarket after revenue misses target

Internet Stories: 2016April01Friday

Fitbit Blaze is beating Apple Watch on Amazon

Airbnb users just want to feel like they’re staying with mom

Apple’s up-and-down journey to middle age

Deep Dive: 11 contrarian stock picks for investors who want to go ‘out on a limb’

The Margin: Kevin Hart teams with Lions Gate to launch streaming service ‘Laugh Out Loud’

Europe Markets: European stocks slide as Japanese gloom infects investors

The Margin: Google axes its April Fools’ prank after it goes badly wrong

Need to Know: Here’s one possible trigger for a 300-point drop in the S&P 500

Amazon’s Twitch to launch league for popular iOS esports game ‘Vainglory’

Financial Services: 2016April01Friday

Market Extra: April is the cruelest month? Not for Wall Street

Tax Guy: Here’s how much capital gains you’ll pay

Market Snapshot: S&P 500 posts biggest weekly gain in a month

The Tell: 2016’s best ETF play in Q1 was buying gold, shorting this sector

Currencies: Dollar turns lower as traders brush off jobs data

Deep Dive: 11 contrarian stock picks for investors who want to go ‘out on a limb’

Top Ten: How a major mutual fund blew it and other money stories to read this weekend

Chicago teachers’ April 1 protest shows public-school crisis is no joke

5 things to know about the Costco-AmEx breakup (and the new Visa)

Economic Outlook: Fed’s Mester warns that delaying interest-rate hikes may backfire