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A general view of the Draft Kings sign on the right field wall during the Major League Baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Toronto Blue Jays on September 20, 2020 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA. Rich Graessle | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday

A woman walks by Bank Of Ireland ATMs in Dublin city center. NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images DUBLIN — The complexion of Irish banking has changed drastically. Over the space of just a few weeks, NatWest-owned Ulster Bank announced it was shutting down operations while KBC Ireland entered talks to sell off its loan

Traders on the New York Stock Exchange Source: NYSE U.S. stock futures moved higher in overnight trading on Sunday as investors readied for the first trading day of May. Dow futures rose 75 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.27% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.22%. Monday marks the first trading day of May. Despite Friday’s

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Twitter (TWTR) – Twitter shares plunged 12.4% in premarket trading after it warned of rising expenses and a possible slowdown in user growth. Twitter beat estimates for its latest quarter by 2 cents a share, with earnings of 16 cents per share. Revenue

Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC Legendary investor Warren Buffett believes millennial-favored stock trading app Robinhood is contributing to the speculative, casino-like trading activity in the stock market and benefitting from it. Robinhood has “become a very significant part of the casino aspect, the casino group, that has joined into the stock market in the

Avishek Das | LightRocket | Getty Images Robinhood, the free-trading app that helped drive a surge in retail investing during the pandemic, has switched to using JPMorgan Chase to handle crucial money transfers into customers’ accounts. The start-up emailed customers this week to say that it is now using JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by

zhongguo Sustainability-focused funds attracted record inflows during the first quarter, pushing global assets under management in ESG funds to nearly $2 trillion, according to a report from Morningstar released Friday. The rise underscores the momentum behind ESG investing, or when environmental, social and governance factors are considered. Assets in these types of funds first topped

Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Amazon — The e-commerce giant saw its shares gain 1% in midday trading after it reported a record first-quarter profit. The Seattle-based firm said profits more than tripled to $8.1 billion and January-to-March sales soared 44% to $108 billion. The results

In this article DARK-GB A Darktrace cybersecurity software demonstration shows how a global problem can start with just one employee’s work station. Michael S. Williamson | The Washington Post | Getty Images LONDON — British cybersecurity start-up Darktrace saw its shares surge as much as 43% in its highly-anticipated London debut Friday. The company priced

In this article @ND.1 @DJ.1 @SP.1 FAANG stocks displayed at the Nasdaq. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes dipped at the start of the overnight session Thursday evening as investors pored over a flurry of earnings results and a robust profit beat from e-commerce giant Amazon. Contracts tied

In this article BTC.CM= ETH.CM= Jack Taylor | Getty Images LONDON — Ether hit an all-time high Thursday as bitcoin’s dominance of the cryptocurrency market declined. The world’s second-largest digital currency by market value surged to a fresh record of $2,774 Thursday morning, according to data from Coin Metrics. Bitcoin, the top digital coin, was

A coal fired power plant in Jiayuguan, Gansu province, China, on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China has ambitious goals for cutting its carbon emissions, but it won’t be abandoning coal power anytime soon as it keeps its eye firmly on economic targets. President Xi Jinping said

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday declined to let up on its easy-money policy despite an economy that it acknowledged is accelerating. As expected, the U.S. central bank decided to keep short-term interest rates anchored near zero as it buys at least $120 billion of bonds each month. The latter part of policy is a two-pronged

A general meeting of Deutsche Bank Arne Dedert | picture alliance | Getty Images LONDON — Deutsche Bank on Wednesday reported a 908 million euro ($1.1 billion) profit for the first quarter, buoyed by continued strong performance in its investment banking division. The bank vastly exceeded analyst expectations for net income of 642.95 million euros,

U.S. stock futures were flat in overnight trading on Tuesday as investors digested major technology earnings and geared up for the latest Federal Reserve policy announcement. Dow futures rose about 50 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.05% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.1%. Google parent Alphabet reported better-than-expected earnings after the bell on Tuesday, sending

In this article UBSG-CH CROX TSLA Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Tesla — Shares of the electric vehicle company slipped nearly 2%, despite headline beats on earnings and revenue for Tesla’s first quarter. The company’s net profit was boosted by regulatory credits and

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a logo displayed at a HSBC bank branch in the central district of Hong Kong. Roy Liu| Bloomberg | Getty Images HSBC, Europe’s largest lender by assets, reported first-quarter pre-tax profits that beat estimates but reported revenue was down. The London-headquartered bank, which makes most of its revenue in

Employees bring a television to Steve Steward’s car at a Best Buy store on Black Friday, traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Crowds are smaller this year due to the increasing popularity of on-line shopping amid concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images

In this article DBSM-SG UOBH-SG OCBC-SG .STI View of the Singapore Central Business District. Suhaimi Abdullah | Getty Images News | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s three largest banks are expected to report improved earnings as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, said analysts.   The banks are scheduled to release first-quarter earnings

The 10-year Treasury Note yield may be on the verge of breaking out of its slump. After stabilizing over the past several weeks, Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher predicts the current risk backdrop will re-energize yields in the coming weeks. He lists the Federal Reserve’s high level of comfortableness surrounding rising inflation, the massive amount