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From the New Testament to Nixon: Takeaways from Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s shareholder letter
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp offered up another batch of colorful commentary to investors alongside the […]
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Palantir lifts full-year guidance as CEO Karp cites ‘tectonic shift’ in AI adoption
Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during the AIPCon conference in Palo Alto, California, US, on March 13, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir boosted its revenue guidance Monday as the artificial intelligence software company saw commercial and government revenue boom. Shares were down about 2% after […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Howard Hughes, Sunoco, Netflix and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Berkshire Hathaway — Warren Buffett’s conglomerate saw shares fall more than 1% in premarket after hitting a record high Friday. The decline came after Berkshire’s operating earnings fell 14% in the first quarter , driven by a 48.6% plunge in insurance-underwriting profit. Buffett also surprised shareholders […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Microsoft, CVS Health, Meta Platforms, Qualcomm and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Microsoft — The tech giant jumped nearly 9% after beating Wall Street’s earnings and revenue expectations driven by its Azure cloud business. Microsoft issued strong guidance for the year. Meta Platforms — Shares popped 6% after the social media company reported first-quarter earnings of $6.43 on […]
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Private payroll growth slowed to 62,000 in April, well below expectations
Companies slowed hiring sharply in April as they braced against potential impacts from President Donald Trump’s tariffs against U.S. trading partners, ADP reported Wednesday. Private sector payrolls rose by just 62,000 for the month, the smallest gain since July 2024, amid heightened uncertainty over the degree of the tariffs and the impact they would have […]
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U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter as Trump policy uncertainty weighed on businesses
The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025 on an import surge at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term in office as he wages a potentially costly trade war. Gross domestic product, a sum of all the goods and services produced from January through March, fell at a 0.3% annualized […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Plug Power, Nvidia, Peloton and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Plug Power — The hydrogen fuel cell developer jumped 24% after signing a deal to issue up to $525 million in secured debentures. The company also issued first-quarter guidance of between $130 million and $134 million, compared with LSEG consensus of $131.6 million. Nio — The […]
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Alphabet jumps 3% as search, advertising units show resilient growth
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet‘s stock gained 3% Friday after signaling strong growth in its search and advertising businesses amid a competitive artificial intelligence environment and uncertain macro backdrop. “GOOGL’s pace of GenAI […]
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Fed’s Hammack calls for patience in assessing what impacts tariffs will have on the economy
Key Points In her first broadcast interview since taking the reins at the Cleveland Fed, Hammack noted the high level of uncertainty now and did not commit to a specific course of action regarding interest rates. A former Goldman Sachs executive, Hammack said she is sensitive to market movements but only in how they affect […]
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Tesla stock pops after Trump comments on China tariffs and Powell, despite weak earnings
US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, alongside Musk’s son X Æ A-Xii, speak to the press as they stand next to a Tesla vehicle on the South Portico of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Tesla shares popped 5% after CEO […]
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