A Trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: The New York Stock Exchange Stock futures inched higher in overnight trading on Sunday after the S&P 500 posted its first losing week in three. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 50 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.1% and Nasdaq 100
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An activist wears a “Fight For $15” T-shirt at a news conference prior to a vote on the Raise the Wage Act, July 18, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol. Alex Wong | Getty Images A $15 minimum wage could become a reality in the U.S. While millions would get a pay boost from a higher
The Roku 3 television streaming player menu is shown on a television in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Tripadvisor — Shares of the travel-booking company fell 1% in extended trading following a wider-than-expected loss.
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Deere (DE) – The heavy equipment maker earned $3.87 per share for its fiscal first quarter, compared to a consensus estimate of $2.14 a share. Revenue also beat forecasts, and Deere increased its full-year earnings outlook amid improvements in the agricultural and construction
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin dismissed the idea that the firm improperly uses information it garners from its market-making operation as it comes under scrutiny from Congress about its role in the GameStop mania last month. “I think there’s been a number of misperceptions about the data we receive from the brokerage community. In fact, a
The logo of U.S. software company Palantir Technologies is seen in Davos, Switzerland Januar 22, 2020. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Applied Materials — Shares of the chipmaker jumped more than 7% after Applied Materials beat estimates during the fourth quarter and issued upbeat comments for the
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Friday that high prices for stocks and other assets are justified in light of a growing economy and low interest rate landscape. With stocks pushing to new heights on valuations not seen in decades, and as corporate bond yields plunge, the central bank official said he’s not
A worker repairs a power line in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2021. Thomas Ryan Allison | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which is known as ERCOT and controls the majority of the state’s power, said it plans to come out of emergency conditions on Friday as power
The second dose of Covid-19 vaccine is crucial in creating longer and complete immunity as well as preventing variants of the virus, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We need to know that this is a two-dose vaccine, period,” Offit told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: The New York Stock Exchange Stock futures inched higher in overnight trading on Thursday after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a large Covid relief package is still needed for a full recovery in the U.S. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20 points.
Propane tanks are placed in a line as people wait for the power to turn on to fill their tanks in Houston, Texas on February 17, 2021. Mark Felix | The Washington Post | Getty Images Power outages continue to plague Texas — and now neighboring Louisiana and Mississippi — as winter conditions curb supply
The GameStop Corp. logo on a laptop computer and Robinhood application on a smartphone. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rep. Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley’s lawmaker in Congress, on Thursday proposed a bill aimed at bulking up the Internal Revenue Service’s enforcement tools and ability to crack down on tax evasion. The legislation, if
Karla Perez and Esperanza Gonzalez warm up by a barbecue grill during power outage caused by the winter storm on February 16, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather, power outages and traffic accidents to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and
Lakestar founder Klaus Hommels appears on stage at a tech conference in London on October 21, 2014. Anthony Harvey | Getty Images for TechCrunch LONDON — The SPAC craze has officially arrived in Europe. European tech investor Klaus Hommels on Wednesday launched a blank-check firm aimed at snapping up a late-stage tech company in the
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading on Tuesday. Verizon – Shares of the telecommunications giant were up 2% in after-hours trading after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a big stake in Verizon. As of Dec. 31, Berkshire Hathaway owned 146,716,496 Verizon shares worth $8.6 billion at the end of 2020. SolarEdge –
U.S. stock index futures were little changed in overnight trading on Tuesday after the Dow closed at a record high. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 11 points. S&P futures were unchanged, while Nasdaq 100 futures slid 0.13%. The move comes after the Dow closed at a record high during regular
The Charging Bull near Wall Street is pictured in New York. Carlo Allegri | Reuters A widely watched Bank of America survey shows high confidence in the economic and market outlook with investors dumping cash to take part. But the firm says the shift in sentiment should raise eyebrows of contrarians looking for signs of
As a record amount of money flows into the market, Wilmington Trust’s Meghan Shue sees a troubling trend. Shue, who oversees almost $136 billion in assets, is concerned retail investors are rushing into stocks and cryptocurrencies that are high risk and offer few benefits — if any at all. “It’s a little bit of chasing
Pedestrians walk in snow past the Wall Street subway station near the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes rose at the start of extended trading Monday evening after finishing strong last week. Dow futures rose 180 points, suggested an implied open
Neil Woodford, Woodford Investment Management. Woodford Investment Management LONDON — Neil Woodford, the former U.K. star stockpicker whose investment firm collapsed in 2019, has said “sorry” to investors as he shared plans to make a comeback with a new business. Woodford said in an interview with The Telegraph, published Saturday, that he was “very sorry