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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: American Express, Verizon, Twitter and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: American Express (AXP) – American Express rallied 4.5% in the premarket after beating top and bottom line estimates for the second quarter. Card members registered record spending, driven by a rebound in travel and entertainment. Verizon (VZ) – Verizon fell 4.4% in the premarket after adjusted […]
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Verizon shares fall after company cuts full-year forecast
A Verizon store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Verizon fell nearly 5% in premarket trading Friday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed expectations and trimmed its financial forecast for the year. “Although recent performance did not meet our expectations, we remain confident […]
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MoffetNathanson downgrades Paramount, citing lower ad spend ahead of potential recession
MoffetNathanson on Friday downgraded shares of Paramount Global to underperform and slashed its price target to $18 per share from $30, citing growing risk of lower advertising spend going forward. “Despite the continued momentum at Paramount+, we downgrade PARA as the growing risk of lower advertising puts additional pressure on the company’s ability to grow […]
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Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid
Musk would have been appointed to Twitter’s board on Saturday, but the world’s richest man informed the company on the day that he would not, in fact, be taking the board seat. Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images Twitter reported earnings for the second quarter on Friday that missed analyst estimates on […]
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Volkswagen-backed Northvolt to develop wood-based batteries for EVs
This image from 2007 shows logs and wood chips outside a Stora Enso paper mill in Finland. The firm says it’s “one of the largest private forest owners in the world.” Suzanne Plunkett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Northvolt will partner with Stora Enso to develop batteries that incorporate components produced using wood sourced from […]
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Amazon’s deals don’t instill the same fear in rivals as before
June 16, 2017. It’s likely a day many retailers can recall vividly. A sleepy Friday morning was disrupted by the surprising announcement that e-commerce giant Amazon was going to buy organic grocer Whole Foods. The upheaval was immediate. Not only did the news send shares of grocer Kroger into a tailspin, a broad swath of […]
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Russia-Ukraine expected to sign grain export deal; U.S. says Moscow deliberately weaponized food
Turkey says Russia and Ukraine are close to signing grain export deal A farm implement harvests grain in the field, as Russian-Ukrainian war continues in Odesa, Ukraine on July 04, 2022. Metin Aktas | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images A U.N.-backed deal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain could be signed on Friday, easing a […]
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China’s Xi calls Biden to wish him a ‘speedy recovery’ from Covid
Pictured here is a news broadcast in China of President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in November 2021. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping called U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday to wish the American leader a “speedy recovery” from […]
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UK faces a summer of discontent as historic inflation and real wage declines stoke strikes
LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 25: A view of the crowd at the RMT strike rally at Kings cross station on June 25, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The biggest rail strikes in 30 years started on Monday night continuing on Thursday and again Saturday, with trains cancelled across the UK for much of the week. […]
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A pilot project in the North Sea will develop floating solar panels that glide over waves ‘like a carpet’
Floating solar panels in the Netherlands. A number of major energy firms are looking into the potential of combining floating solar with other energy sources. Mischa Keijser | Image Source | Getty Images German energy firm RWE is to invest in a pilot project centered around the deployment of floating solar technology in the North […]
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