Stock markets
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop, USA Rare Earth, Applied Materials, Zillow and more
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. USA Rare Earth — The rare earth miner jumped 8.8% after CEO Barbara Humpton told CNBC that the company is in “close communication” with the White House. GameStop — The meme stock fell 2.7% after the company said in a filing it’s selling a combination assets […]
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Stock futures are little changed as AI trade drives market to fresh highs, shutdown grinds on: Live updates
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE Stock futures were little changed after the market recorded new highs on Thursday, driven by strength in the artificial intelligence trade that appeared to overpower concerns about the 2-day-old U.S. government shutdown. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 11 […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Starbucks, FICO, Acadia Healthcare & more
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Acadia Healthcare — The healthcare stock jumped about 7% after investors Khrom Capital filed to push the company to explore strategic alternatives. Acadia shares are down 33% year to date. Sarepta Therapeutics — The biotech company rallied 6%. While a catalyst for the move was not […]
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Tom Lee sees S&P 500 topping 7,000 by year-end, says don’t be fooled by shutdown calamity talk
The government shutdown is unlikely to derail the stock market’s momentum into year-end, according to Tom Lee, Fundstrat Global Advisors’ head of research. Lee believes the suspension of economic data releases from federal agencies is a “sidebar issue,” adding that past shutdowns have had little lasting impact on equities. The widely followed strategist, who called […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Occidental Petroleum, Lithium Americas, Fair Isaac & more
Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Occidental Petroleum , Berkshire Hathaway — Occidental gained around 1% after Berkshire Hathaway announced it was buying the oil company’s petrochemical division, OxyChem, for nearly $10 billion in cash . Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway slipped about 0.2%. Fair Isaac — The stock rallied 19% […]
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Berkshire Hathaway to buy Occidental’s OxyChem for $9.7 billion, in Buffett’s biggest deal in three years
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced Thursday it reached a deal to buy Occidental Petroleum’s petrochemical unit, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion in cash. The deal marks Berkshire’s largest since 2022, when it paid $11.6 billion for insurer Alleghany. […]
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Stock futures are little changed as investors look past government shutdown: Live updates
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE Stock futures are little changed Wednesday night after the S&P 500 logged a fresh high and investors appeared to shrug off concerns tied to the latest U.S. government shutdown. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 20 points, or […]
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S&P 500 closes above 6,700 for first time as traders bet on short-lived shutdown
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Wednesday as traders were hopeful that a U.S. federal government shutdown would be brief and possibly have little impact on the economy. The broad market index gained 0.34% to close at 6,711.20. Earlier, […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Pfizer, Nike, Conagra, Corteva, GEO Group, Tesla, Reddit and more
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Drug stocks — Shares of drugmakers rallied a second day as investors bet the industry will strike more deals with the Trump administration. On Tuesday, Pfizer received a three-year exemption to tariffs in exchange for investing in domestic manufacturing and discounting drug prices for Medicaid patients. Pfizer […]
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Leon Cooperman says we’ve reached the stage of the bull market that Warren Buffett warned about
Longtime investor Leon Cooperman believes we are in the late innings of a bull market where bubbles can form and risks rise, a stage of the cycle that Warren Buffett had warned about. The chair and CEO of the Omega Family Office read a quote from the “Oracle of Omaha” on CNBC’s “Money Movers” Wednesday, […]
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