PARA, NXPI, FFIV and more

Check out the companies making headlines in after hours trading. Paramount Global — Shares rose less than 1% after the parent of CBS television said its CEO Bob Bakish would step down and be replaced by an “office of the CEO.” The news comes as Paramount posted per-share earnings of 62 cents, topping the 36 […]

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: TSLA, ROKU, AAPL, DPZ

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: SoFi Technologies — The consumer fintech company’s stock price plunged about 10% on disappointing second-quarter earnings guidance. SoFi forecast adjusted revenue between $555 million and $565 million, and net income of $5 million to $10 million, while analysts polled by FactSet had called for $580.8 million in […]

Stocks making biggest moves premarket: Tesla, Paramount and more

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading: Tesla — Shares rocketed more than 10% during premarket trading after the electric vehicle company said on Sunday that local Chinese authorities removed restrictions on its cars , raising expectations that Tesla’s driver-assistance software Full Self-Driving would soon be available in the country. Paramount — The […]

Musk visits Beijing as Tesla’s China-made cars pass security rules

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters BEIJING — Local Chinese authorities have removed restrictions on Tesla cars […]

ARK says it’s a unique time to invest

ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told […]

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: MSFT, GOOGL, XOM, SNAP

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Microsoft — Shares jumped 2% after the tech giant reported better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results as its Azure business continued to show momentum. Alphabet — The Google-parent company rallied 10%. Alphabet posted first-quarter results that topped estimates and authorized its first-ever dividend, as well as a $70 […]

Miami is ‘ground zero’ for climate risk. People move there, build there anyway

South Pointe Beach in Miami Beach, Florida. Greg Iacurci MIAMI — Daniel Habibian worries about climate change.  His clothing boutique in Miami Beach’s iconic South Beach neighborhood sits just a few blocks inland from the Atlantic Ocean.  Rising seas threaten to swallow much of the Miami metro area in the coming decades as the world […]

Stocks making biggest moves premarket: Alphabet, Microsoft and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Microsoft — Shares gained 4% after the tech giant reported fiscal third-quarter results that topped expectations as its Azure business continued to show momentum. Alphabet — The tech behemoth surged more than 11%. Alphabet posted first-quarter results that topped estimates and issued its first-ever dividend, as […]

Trump advisors are considering plans to dramatically revamp the Fed, WSJ report says

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Thursday, April 25, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Via Reuters Former President Donald Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him unprecedented influence over the Federal Reserve, including a plan that could […]

Chinese EVs Nio, Xpeng turn to mass market for growth

Nio Founder and CEO William Li poses outside of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate his company’s IPO. Photo: NYSE BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-ups Nio and Xpeng are turning to a lower-priced segment of the market with plans to release newly branded cars this year. Nio’s first such mass market car will […]