Year: 2026
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: General Mills, Southwest, Genuine Parts, Norwegian Cruise Line & more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. General Mills — Shares tumbled 7% after the Lucky Charms and Progresso parent lowered its 2026 outlook. General Mills said organic net sales would slide between 1.5% and 2%, while operating profit and adjusted earnings per share would tumble between 16% and 20%. Southwest Airlines — […]
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Amazon has lost $450 billion in value during this historic losing streak. Here’s what’s dragging it down
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaking with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20, 2026. CNBC Amazon shares whipsawed on Tuesday, as the stock attempted to make a comeback from a historic slide. Should the stock close in the red, it would mark a tenth-straight negative session, tying the company’s […]
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Ford to follow Tesla Cybertruck with electrical tech in new EV pickup
A Ford F-150 Lightning next to a Tesla Cybertruck. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT — Ford Motor‘s $5 billion “bet” on its next generation of all-electric vehicles will feature a budding technology that Tesla commercialized in the U.S. on its Cybertruck, the Detroit automaker said Tuesday. The system, known as a 48-volt electrical architecture, had […]
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CFTC defends its right to prediction market enforcement as states challenge platforms
Michael Selig, U.S. President Trump’s nominee to serve as Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman, testifies in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 19, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court on Tuesday to assert […]
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Democrats send Trump DHS funding counteroffer as agency shutdown grinds on
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) (C), joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) (L) and House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) hold a press conference on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 04, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Congressional Democrats sent […]
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Cloud startup Render raises funding at $1.5 billion valuation as AI-built apps boom
Render employees, including CEO Anurag Goel, center, gather at the startup’s headquarters in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2026. Render Venture capitalists are doubling down on Render, a startup offering easy-to-use cloud infrastructure. On Tuesday it said it has raised $100 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. The lucrative cloud computing world, dominated […]
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Lakers governor Jeanie Buss talks year of transition, says father would have supported sale to Mark Walter
Six-time NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss said new majority owner Mark Walter’s access to capital will help the team best compete with the NBA’s top franchises — and that her late father, Jerry Buss, would have supported the sale. “What was important to him was that the Lakers stay at the top […]
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Hedge fund manager Rob Citrone is short U.S. stocks. Here’s why
After the rest of the world outperformed the U.S. in 2025 , Rob Citrone forecasts more relative weakness ahead for the country’s equities. The billionaire hedge fund manager said he is short the U.S. market and long equities in certain international markets. In an appearance Tuesday on CNBC’s ” Squawk Box ,” the Discovery Capital […]
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Figma partners with Anthropic to turn AI-generated code into editable designs
Figma Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called “Code to Canvas” that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools like Claude Code into fully editable designs inside […]
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Dave’s Hot Chicken investors bet on birria with national franchise expansion plan
The restaurant investors behind the success of Dave’s Hot Chicken are making a new nationwide bet on the next-hottest restaurant trend: birria. Mike’s Red Tacos, a San Diego-based birria chain with just two locations, plans to announce on Tuesday a new franchising initiative that will build hundreds of restaurants across the U.S., with support from […]
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