Month: May 2025
Nuclear stocks rally as Trump signs executive orders to support industry
Cooling towers are seen at the nuclear-powered Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Georgia, on Aug. 13, 2024. Megan Varner | Reuters Nuclear power stocks surged Friday after President Donald Trump signed executive orders to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and speed the deployment of new reactors in the U.S. Advanced reactor companies Oklo and […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Apple, Ross Stores, Intuit, Booz Allen Hamilton and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Booz Allen Hamilton — Shares of the consulting firm lost 15% after Booz Allen Hamilton said it would cut roughly 2,500 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, citing a slowdown in some government spending under the Trump administration and expected ongoing pressure on its business in […]
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Why investors are calling Trump’s bluff on 50% tariffs on the European Union
European stocks appear to have mostly shrugged off U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt threat to impose a 50% tariff on European Union goods, regarding it as a high-stakes negotiating tactic rather than a policy set in stone. It’s one message that could be drawn from the price action in the Stoxx Europe 600 index on […]
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A trading strategy for this market after Trump causes volatility to spike again
Trade tariff negotiations are not over yet. President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs up to 50% (starting June 1 st ) on the EU as talks have seemingly stalled. Equity markets immediately sold off. European equity markets tanked by 2% on the news. I want to use this surprising drop as an opportunity to […]
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp sells more than $50 million in stock
Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp speaks during the Hill & Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp has sold more than $50 million worth of shares in the artificial intelligence software company, according to […]
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Intuit shares pop 9% on earnings beat, rosy guidance
Shares of Intuit popped about 9% on Friday, a day after the company reported quarterly results that beat analysts’ estimates and issued rosy guidance for the full year. Intuit, which is best known for its TurboTax and QuickBooks software, said revenue in the fiscal third quarter increased 15% to $7.8 billion. Net income rose 18% to […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Apple, Tesla, Intuit, Ross Stores and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Apple — The tech giant saw shares fall 3.5% in premarket trading after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Apple will have to pay a tariff of 25% or more for iPhones made outside the U.S. Nuclear stocks — Stocks tied to […]
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Why Trump’s iPhone tariff threat might not be enough to bring production to the U.S.
FILE PHOTO: Apple CEO Tim Cook escorts U.S. President Donald Trump as he tours Apple’s Mac Pro manufacturing plant with in Austin, Texas, U.S., November 20, 2019. Tom Brenner | Reuters The once-solid relationship between President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook is breaking down over the idea of a U.S.-made iPhone. Last week, […]
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Judge blocks Trump administration mass layoffs at many U.S. agencies
Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hug each other as they queue outside the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building, after it was reported that the Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, as it embarked on its plan to […]
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Britain’s economy shows signs of positive momentum — but the UK may not be out of the woods just yet
People walk in Trafalgar Square, London, on April 28, 2025. Adrien Fillon | Nurphoto | Getty Images It’s been rare for a string of positive economic news to emerge out of the U.K. in 2025 — but this week in particular has given Britain three reasons to be optimistic. Data on Friday signaled unexpected positive […]
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