Chance of Biden dropping out of presidental race is 40%, Stifel says

There’s a 40% chance President Joe Biden will not seek re-election, according to Stifel. Brian Gardner, the firm’s chief Washington policy strategist, is out with a research note that calls it a “make or break week” for the president’s campaign as Congress returns from its Fourth of July recess. “There’s a 60% chance, more likely […]

PARA, MORF, IDYA and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Paramount Global — The media and entertainment company shed 2% after it agreed to merge with Skydance Media . Skydance and its financial backers will invest more than $8 billion into Paramount and to acquire National Amusements, Paramount’s controlling shareholder. Morphic Holding — Shares rallied 75% […]

Paramount, SolarEdge, Morphic Holding and more

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 […]

A soaring Nasdaq and Nvidia in the U.S. make China’s stocks look worse

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 […]

Job scams surged 118% in 2023, aided by AI. Here’s how to stop them

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 […]

Weight loss stocks should grab big gains, Tema ETFs’ CEO suggests

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 […]

M, INST, NVO and more

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 […]

Rent a car for a road trip, or drive your own? 5 things to consider

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 […]

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: M, TSLA, NVO

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. […]

China hopes for solution with EU on EV tariffs ‘as soon as possible’

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 […]