Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: CVS, SMCI, META

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. CVS – Shares jumped more than 8% after the pharmacy operator reported fourth-quarter results that beat analyst expectations. The company earned an adjusted $1.19 per share on revenue of $97.71 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of 93 cents per share on revenue of […]

Fintech unicorn Zepz to lay off 200 employees, sources say

Mark Lenhard, CEO of U.K.-based remittances platform Zepz. Lukas Schulze | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images LONDON — British digital remittances company Zepz is laying off dozens of IT workers and is in the process of closing down business units in Poland and Kenya. Roughly 200 staff members will be impacted by the […]

Chinese tech giant Baidu to release next-generation AI model this year

Men interact with a Baidu AI robot near the company logo at its headquarters in Beijing, China April 23, 2021. Florence Lo | Reuters BEIJING — China’s Baidu plans to release the next generation of its artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter, as […]

Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: DASH, LYFT, UPST, SMCI

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: DoorDash — The food delivery stock traded nearly 6% higher after better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter. DoorDash reported revenue of $2.87 billion in its most recent quarter, while analysts surveyed by LSEG forecast $2.84 billion. Gilead Sciences — The biopharmaceutical stock advanced 4% after fourth-quarter […]

Powell squashes the possibility that the Fed will develop its own digital currency

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 11, 2025.  Craig Hudson | Reuters Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell asserted Tuesday that the central bank will not develop its own […]

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: KO, ECL, META

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Lattice Semiconductor — Shares surged more than 7% after the chipmaker beat consensus revenue estimates in the fourth quarter. Revenue of $117.4 million came above analysts’ calls for $117.1 million, according to LSEG. Coca-Cola — Shares gained more than 3% after the soda maker’s fourth-quarter results […]

Fed Chair Powell says central bank doesn’t ‘need to be in a hurry’ to lower interest rates further

Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 06, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday reiterated the central bank’s commitment to bringing inflation down and signaled that policymakers aren’t […]

CFPB leaders announce resignations after stop-work order

Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought takes his seat as he arrives to testify before a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Jan. 15, 2025. Jemal Countess | AFP | Getty Images Two […]