One analyst sees growth ahead despite downside surprises on expenses and client cash trends.

“I have a modest Roth IRA that hasn’t really performed well and hesitate to add to it.”

BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.’s rose 0.6% premarket Thursday, even as the company’s fiscal first-quarter earnings exceeded expectations and it backed its full-year guidance.

Chief Executive Patrice Louvet said the company is now in the second year of its “Next Great Chapter: Accelerate” plan as it navigates a “highly dynamic global operating environment.”

Summer stocks, some corporate insiders like their odds, and why Dow 1 million is doable.

The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell again to 215,000, reaffirming that layoffs are low and the economy is being buoyed by a strong labor market.