Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Morphic Holding — Shares surged more than 75% on news that Eli Lilly will acquire the biopharma company in a $3.2 billion deal . The deal will give Eli Lilly access to Morphic’s portfolio of treatments in development, such as those for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Eli […]
Mainland China investors these days are often focused on how well U.S. stocks are doing — and bemoaning tepid performance at home. Sure, there are clear macroeconomic differences. And hardly any major Chinese stock has more than doubled in price this year , as Nvidia has. But a look at first-half performance shows that many […]
Ridvan_celik | E+ | Getty Images Employment scams surged last year, as criminals leveraged artificial intelligence to steal money and personal information from unsuspecting job seekers, experts said. Consumer reports of job scams jumped 118% in 2023 from the prior year, according to a recent report by the Identity Theft Resource Center. Thieves generally pose […]
Tema ETFs has been capitalizing on the risk appetite for weight loss stocks. It is behind the GLP-1, Obesity & Cardiometabolic ETF (HRTS), which is up 26% since its inception last November. The firm’s founder and CEO Maurits Pot thinks the winning weight loss trade isn’t based on just hype. “The companies we track and […]
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Nvidia — Shares of the artificial intelligence darling fell 1% after a rare negative call on Wall Street . New Street Research downgraded Nvidia to hold from buy, citing limited upside given the big run already this year. It is only the second downgrade of Nvidia […]
Patchareeporn Sakoolchai | Moment | Getty Images Summer is the season of road trips. A record 70.9 million Americans are expected to travel by car during the July 4th holiday week alone, according to AAA. For some car owners, it might be more financially savvy to rent a vehicle for a road trip than use […]
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Crypto stocks — Stocks tied to the price of bitcoin slid after the cryptocurrency dropped 5% to its lowest level since February , with the now defunct Mt. Gox exchange beginning repayments to creditors, as expected . Coinbase and MicroStrategy each lost 5% in premarket trading. […]
Employees work on the assembly line of electric vehicles in a digital automotive factory of Jiangling Motors on May 17, 2024. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China hopes to reach an agreement with the European Union soon on the bloc’s planned tariffs for imported Chinese electric cars, the Ministry of […]
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing celebrates the 24th anniversary of its listing on June 21, 2024. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — The market for initial public offerings in Hong Kong is set to improve significantly over the next five years, starting in the second half of this year, […]
One exchange-traded fund is betting on a U.S. manufacturing job resurgence. Tema ETFs CEO and founder Maurits Pot is behind the American Reshoring ETF (RSHO) that focuses on industrials. “Some will call it deglobalization. We’re in the early innings,” Pot told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “At the heart of it is job creation, manufacturing […]
