SPOT, UPS, PNR and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Spotify Technology — Shares surged 12% after the music streaming company posted better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. Gross margin and operating income also surpassed expectations. Analysts said they remain cautiously optimistic despite softness in monthly active user counts, pointing to strong margin performance and the company’s focus on […]

Spotify, General Motors, Coca-Cola and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Spotify Technology — The music streaming stock surged 13% after Spotify Technology posted second quarter earnings that topped estimates. Gross margin also exceeded expectations, along with operating income. General Motors — The auto stock jumped 4.6% after General Motors easily topped second-quarter estimates. GM also said […]

RYAAY, CRWD, IQVIA and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Ryanair — Shares fell 16% after the budget airline reported weaker-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings . The company said its quarterly profit after tax had fallen 46% and that it expects fares to be lower than expected in the summer months. CrowdStrike — The cybersecurity stock plunged […]

Stocks making biggest moves premarket: CrowdStrike, Nvidia and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: CrowdStrike — The cybersecurity stock dropped 4% after Guggenheim downgraded CrowdStrike to neutral from buy, saying the company is unlikely to emerge unscathed from the global outage. Nvidia — Shares gained 2% after Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Nvidia is preparing a version […]

What recent small cap rally says about risk

The money flow into small caps may not be a rotation from winning growth trades. Dave Nadig, ETF journalist and financial futurist, sees investors “just buying, buying, buying.” “What we’re seeing is a diversification trade,” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “We’re seeing flows into everything, and that to me means people are looking […]

CRWD, PLUG, CMA and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. CrowdStrike – The stock fell more than 10% after an update by the cybersecurity firm caused a major IT outage that affected airlines, hospitals, financial services firms and other businesses . Shares of Microsoft were also marginally lower following the news that many Microsoft users around […]