The price of one Memorial Day barbecue essential has soared 28% since last year. It’s not meat or vegetables.

The price of one Memorial Day barbecue essential has soared 28% since last year. It’s not meat or vegetables.

If you plan to barbecue this weekend, here’s some good news: You’ll get slightly more beef for your buck. However, unless you want to eat your burger plain, you’ll need to shell out more dough for condiments and buns. A new study from data-analysis company Datasembly found that barbecue staples are more expensive than they…

Zooey Deschanel on her new show — and what she refuses to spend $15 on

Zooey Deschanel on her new show — and what she refuses to spend $15 on

Zooey Deschanel wants to make sure you’re not mentally checked-out the next time you’re filling your shopping cart in stores or online.  “The New Girl” star’s latest gig is an unscripted series that just dropped on the Warner Bros.-owned WBD, +3.16% streaming service formerly known as HBO Max (now Max) called “What Am I Eating?…

Lowe’s, PacWest, Yelp stocks rally while BJ’s and Zoom Video shares fall, and other stocks on the move

Lowe’s, PacWest, Yelp stocks rally while BJ’s and Zoom Video shares fall, and other stocks on the move

Here are some of the more prominent movers on Tuesday: Stock gainers: Lowe’s Companies Inc.’s stock LOW, +2.18% jumped 1.7% in afternoon trading, after the home improvement retailer beat fiscal first-quarter profit expectations. While same-store sales fell more than forecast, they outperformed rival Home Depot Inc. HD, +1.75%, and the lowered full-year profit guidance range…

U.S. stocks pull back as debt ceiling fears mount

U.S. stocks pull back as debt ceiling fears mount

U.S. stocks slid Tuesday, erasing Monday’s gains, as worries about the debt ceiling negotiations in Washington outweighed data suggesting economic growth remains resilient. How stocks are trading The S&P 500 SPX, -1.00% dropped 37 points, or 0.9%, to 4,154 The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.61% lost 180 points, or 0.5%, to 33,107 The Nasdaq…

Canopy Growth’s stock pops after it reveals plan to enter U.S. cannabis market

Canopy Growth’s stock pops after it reveals plan to enter U.S. cannabis market

Canopy Growth Corp.’s U.S.-listed stock rose 7% Monday after the Canadian cannabis company outlined its latest steps to enter the U.S. market while complying with Nasdaq listing requirements. The company said it has filed a revised proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission updating its strategy to accelerate entry to the U.S. cannabis…

Adani Enterprises shares surge on report finding no evidence of manipulation

Adani Enterprises shares surge on report finding no evidence of manipulation

Shares of Adani Enterprises, and other Adani Group companies, surged on Monday after a preliminary report that didn’t find evidence of stock-price manipulation. Adani Enterprises 512599, +18.66%, the flagship company, saw its shares jump 17%, as other companies including Adani Wilmar 543458, +10.00% rose as well. A panel convened by India’s Supreme Court said in…

Parade of retailers to face inflation doubts while Nvidia and Zoom answer questions about tech

Parade of retailers to face inflation doubts while Nvidia and Zoom answer questions about tech

Last week, retailers Walmart Inc., Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc. provided broad strokes on how rising prices for essentials have reshaped consumer habits. Now come the finer points, with a whole lot of other retailers — including Dollar Tree Inc. DLTR, -0.37%, Costco Wholesale Corp. COST, -0.32%, Best Buy Co. Inc. BBY, -3.44%, Gap…

Food banks scramble to meet increased demand as pandemic-era benefits expire

Food banks scramble to meet increased demand as pandemic-era benefits expire

Linda Palmer usually sees a couple of hundred people line up for bags of produce, milk, eggs and more as she volunteers at her local food bank’s biweekly, hourlong distribution in the parking lot near the senior center in Hercules, Calif. But as she helped people sign in during one recent shift, she said, “we…

Are you in Bavaria or Washington? Four travel destinations that will make you feel like you’re in Europe, without leaving North America.

Are you in Bavaria or Washington? Four travel destinations that will make you feel like you’re in Europe, without leaving North America.

Skip the jet lag and overnight flights: there are places right here in North America whose architecture and ambience will transport you to Europe in the twinkling of an eye. Here are four places to explore. Leavenworth, Wash. Like a small town in Bavaria, half-timbered buildings, carved wooden balconies, murals painted on building facades (a…

Pernod Ricard has ended all exports to Russia, but exit will take ‘some months’

Pernod Ricard has ended all exports to Russia, but exit will take ‘some months’

Drinks giant Pernod Ricard has ceased exports of its international brands to Russia but says it will take “some months” to end distribution of its products in the country.     The French company was slammed last month over its resumption of exports of iconic brands Jameson whiskey and Beefeater gin to Russia, after having earlier ended…

U.S. stocks on track for weekly gains as debt-ceiling hopes boost markets

U.S. stocks on track for weekly gains as debt-ceiling hopes boost markets

U.S. stocks traded higher Friday, with all three major benchmarks heading for weekly gains, as investors await remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell while hopes remain high for a debt-ceiling deal in Congress. What’s happening The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.24% rose 108 points, or 0.3%, at 33,645. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.10%…

Farfetch stock rallies 18% after narrower quarterly loss, higher sales

Farfetch stock rallies 18% after narrower quarterly loss, higher sales

Shares of Farfetch Ltd. jumped 18% in the extended session Thursday after the luxury fashion company posted a narrower-than-expected adjusted loss for its first quarter and sales that topped expectations. “Our first-quarter results represent the first step towards achieving our plan for 2023 … and demonstrate our strong execution in the face of continued macro…

World Health Organization warns nonsugar sweeteners may increase risk of diabetes and heart disease

World Health Organization warns nonsugar sweeteners may increase risk of diabetes and heart disease

The World Health Organization said Monday it is advising people not to use nonsugar sweeteners for weight control, warning that they may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mortality in adults. The agency said a systematic review of the available evidence suggests nonsugar sweeteners do not confer any long-term benefit in…

Bud Light crisis: It’s unclear how U.S. volume drop will end, analysts say

Bud Light crisis: It’s unclear how U.S. volume drop will end, analysts say

It’s unclear how Anheuser-Busch InBev will reverse eroding U.S. volume in light of the Bud Light crisis, analysts at HSBC said in downgrading the stock to hold. Sales of Bud Light have tumbled in the U.S. since Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD had a brief online marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. HSBC cited data from…

Beyond Meat stock sinks after earnings even though sales show signs of life

Beyond Meat stock sinks after earnings even though sales show signs of life

Beyond Meat Inc. has been chewed up by a fallow patch of waning consumer interest and high prices. On Wednesday, the plant-based meat maker’s stock BYND initially sizzled 16% in extended trading following quarterly results that showed signs of life following a prolonged narrative of rough times for the industry. But the stock gave up…

Bud Light sales declines are now affecting Anheuser-Busch’s other big brands, says new data

Bud Light sales declines are now affecting Anheuser-Busch’s other big brands, says new data

Bud Light’s downward spiral has accelerated in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney debacle — and the carnage has begun to spill into Anheuser-Busch’s other mega-buck brands, The Post has learned. Nationwide retail sales of Bud Light were down 23.4% versus a year ago in the week of April 29 — worse than the 21.4% decline it…

American tourists may help take the sting out of King Charles III’s very expensive coronation

American tourists may help take the sting out of King Charles III’s very expensive coronation

A royal party now, a taxpayer hangover later. That’s the price that must be paid for a once-in-a-lifetime event: King Charles III’s May 6 coronation that’s expected to top the record-breaking coronation of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, though an incoming hoard of tourists may balance that out. While her late majesty’s 1953…