A new business called Collegiate Athletic Solutions plans to invest $50 million to $200 million apiece in a select group of universities. The idea is to build businesses that help monetize a school’s intellectual property and provide them with advice and capital.

The Biden administration is preparing to raise tariffs on clean-energy goods from China in the coming days, with the levy on Chinese electric vehicles set to roughly quadruple.

Earnings per share for companies in the S&P 500 now look to be up 5.2% from a year earlier, better than the 3.4% analysts expected at the end of March, and marking the strongest growth in nearly two years.

Job growth slowed and unemployment ticked higher last month, marking a break from a string of data showing surprising strength in the labor market.

The length of the average workweek fell last month, to 34.3 from 34.4. The underemployment rate, which includes the unemployed and those marginally attached to the workforce, rose to 7.4%.

It was a notably ugly April for the major averages, with the Dow losing 5% for its worst monthly performance since September 2022. The S&P 500 slid about 4.2% this month, and the Nasdaq lost 4.4%. The three major averages snapped five-month winning streaks.

The number of high-paying remote jobs commanding a salary of $100,000 or more dropped 33% across the first quarter of the year compared to the final three months of 2023, with more companies now demanding that workers with higher salaries report to the office.

Investors have pulled a net $2.2 billion from ARK’s active funds this year, topping outflows from all of 2023.

Blackstone Inc.’s Strategic Partners unit sold a $1.1 billion portfolio of private equity fund interests to Ares Management Corp.

Analysts estimate that pensions will unload $325 billion in stocks this year, up from $191 billion in 2023.