The BeyHive doesn’t appear to be quite as buzzy when it comes to Beyoncé’s newly launched ”Cowboy Carter” tour. But could that be a sign of broader economic worry among consumers? It’s a question worth asking, at least according to financial and music-industry professionals who spoke with MarketWatch. With resale ticket prices for her tour dipping below $60 in some instances, experts suggested Beyoncé may be a bellwether for how people are choosing to spend — or not spend — their money. “The...

Are you ready to fork over even more money for some of your favorite food products? That could be the result of the newly announced Food and Drug Administration ban on the use of several petroleum-based synthetic dyes, according to food-industry professionals and others. The dyes are found in countless items on supermarket shelves, from Flamin’ Hot Cheetos PEP -0.02% to Froot Loops cereal KLG +0.64% . Replacing them with natural dyes could add as much as 10% to manufacturing costs, experts...

Real Retirement The sport has a growing number of senior participants — and there’s new research that says playing the game is a longevity booster First Published: April 19, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET 13 If there’s a fountain of youth, Tom O’Hara thinks he may have found it on a golf course in southwest Florida. O’Hara, a 77-year-old retiree who lives in Dunedin, Fla., plays his nearby preferred courses a couple of times a week with friends — a group he jokingly refers to as “a league of old men...

The limited-time Coca-Cola product is made with cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup. Some people can’t get enough. First Published: April 11, 2025 at 6:04 p.m. ET Referenced Symbols KO -0.91% Why is this two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola different from all other two-liter bottles of Coca-Cola? With the eight-day Passover holiday that began Saturday with the seder meal — and its “Why is this night different?” question — the play on wording is apt: During Passover, when Jews abstain...