Month: July 2024
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Boeing, Vistra, Match Group and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Pinterest – Shares tumbled 12% after the social media company’s forward guidance came in below estimates. The company issued third-quarter revenue guidance in a range between $885 million to $900 million, below the $908.6 million consensus estimate analysts polled by FactSet were forecasting. Second-quarter earnings and […]
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Meta set to report second-quarter earnings after the bell
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta is slated to report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the close of regular trading. Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per […]
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Taco Bell to roll out AI drive-thru ordering in hundreds of locations by end of year
A Taco Bell fast-food restaurant and drive-thru at dusk in Gastonia, North Carolina. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Yum Brands hopes to use artificial intelligence to take down drive-thru orders at hundreds of Taco Bell restaurants by the end of this year. The restaurant company announced on Wednesday that it is […]
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European markets close higher as euro zone inflation rises; tech stocks up 2.6% led by ASML
LONDON — European markets closed higher on Wednesday, maintaining positive momentum after euro zone inflation rose unexpectedly. The Stoxx 600 index preliminarily closed 0.79% higher, with technology stocks jumping 2.62%. Dutch chip firm ASML led the charge, rising as much as 10% before somewhat paring gains after a Reuters report suggested that the company could be exempted […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Pinterest, Match Group, Advanced Micro Devices and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: DuPont — Shares popped 5% on the back of better-than-expected results in the second quarter. The chemical maker earned 97 cents per share, excluding certain items, on revenue of $3.17 billion. Analysts expected a profit of 85 cents per share on revenue of $3.05 billion, according […]
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U.S. crude oil jumps more than 3% after Hamas political leader assassinated in Tehran
U.S. crude oil futures jumped more than 3% on Wednesday after Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran, renewing fears that the Middle East is teetering on the brink of a regional war. Here are Wednesday’s energy prices: West Texas Intermediate September contract: $77.28 per barrel, up $2.55, or 3.51%. Year to date, […]
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Boar’s Head recall expands to include 7 million pounds of deli meat over listeria concerns
A woman browses the meat aisle at a supermarket in Montebello, California, on May 15, 2024. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images A recall of Boar’s Head products has expanded to include a whopping 7 million additional pounds of deli and poultry items in a deadly multistate outbreak of listeria infections. As of […]
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Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million. Bastian said the figure includes not just lost revenue but “the tens of millions of dollars per day in compensation and hotels” over a period of five days. The […]
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Middle East on knife-edge after killing of Hamas leader in Iran; Israel’s opponents vow retaliation
Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh attending an exclusive interview with Anadolu in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 20, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images The Middle East is on edge after a dramatic escalation that saw top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in a strike in the Iranian capital of Tehran early Wednesday. Iranian […]
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Boeing taps former Collins Aerospace CEO Kelly Ortberg to replace Dave Calhoun
Kelly Ortberg, chief executive officer of Rockwell Collins Inc., stands for a photograph at the company’s production facility in in Manchester, Iowa, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing has named Robert “Kelly” Ortberg to succeed CEO Dave Calhoun, picking a longtime aerospace veteran from outside the company […]
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