Logo on an Apple store is seen in Arlington, Virginia, January 27, 2022. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Apple — Shares of the tech giant jumped more than 5% following a strong quarterly report that showed its largest single quarter in terms of revenue ever. Apple beat analyst estimates
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Coinbase launched its own debit card in an effort to promote the use of cryptocurrencies in payments as well as investing. Coinbase Visa said during its recent earnings call that customers made $2.5 billion in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal first quarter of 2022. That was 70% of the company’s crypto volume
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nomination hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Jan. 11, 2022 in Washington. Brendan Smialowski-Pool/Getty Images The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates soon from rock-bottom levels to cool inflation. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index jumped by 5.8% in December
In this article HOOD Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev attend Robinhood Markets IPO Listing Day on July 29, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord | Getty Images Robinhood clawed back its major losses on Friday as investors looked past disappointing guidance from the company and rallied around progress on new product developments. Shares of
In this article HOOD Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Robinhood is planning to roll out a feature to let its millions of clients trade stocks well outside of normal market hours. “We’re also close to delivering a feature that our customers have been asking for: an ever larger
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Jan. 26, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures rose in overnight trading Thursday, boosted by a jump in Apple shares, as Wall Street looks to wrap up a roller-coaster week on a high note. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 200 points. S&P 500 futures climbed 0.8%
In this article NFLX BX TSLA CMCSA MCD TSCO Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Comcast (CMCSA) – The NBCUniversal and CNBC parent earned an adjusted 77 cents per share for the fourth quarter, 4 cents above estimates, with revenue also above analyst forecasts. Comcast also announced an 8% dividend hike and
Statues stand outside a Deutsche Bank AG branch in Frankfurt, Germany. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Deutsche Bank on Thursday defied market expectations to post a profit for the fourth quarter of 2021, as investment bank revenues rose. The German lender said profit attributable to shareholders came in at 145 million
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 18, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Stock futures rose on Wednesday night after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell provided an update on the central bank’s plans to raise rates, saying there’s “quite a bit of room”
In this article WMT Black Friday shoppers walk out of Walmart with a full shopping cart on November 26, 2021 in Westminster, Colorado. Michael Ciaglo | Getty Images A financial technology start-up that Walmart created and backed said Wednesday it is acquiring two more companies as it aims to build an all-in-one app where consumers
Klarna Card. Klarna LONDON — Swedish fintech firm Klarna is embedding its “buy now, pay later” service into a physical card in the U.K. The company on Wednesday announced the launch of Klarna Card, a Visa card that lets users delay payments on their purchases, both in-store as well as online. The card is already
Stock futures were little changed Tuesday night, following another wild session for the market. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures dropped 70 points, or 0.2%. S&P 500 futures dipped 0.2%, and Nasdaq 100 futures were off by less than 1%. Microsoft shares rose 1% in after-hours trading, after the company issued better-than-expected quarterly revenue guidance. Earlier,
In this article BTC.CM= Two commemorative bitcoins pictured in front of a Tesla car during cold weather on Jan. 7, 2022. Artur Widak | NurPhoto via Getty Images As cryptocurrency investors reel from the sharp sell-off in bitcoin and other digital currencies, some fear the worst is yet to come. Bitcoin, the world’s largest virtual
Investors may be playing with fire. According to Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, the S&P 500 is vulnerable to a 10% plunge despite Monday’s late buying binge. He warns investors are dangerously downplaying a collision between a tightening Federal Reserve and slowing growth. “This type of action is just not comforting. I don’t think anybody is
U.S. stock index futures were little changed in overnight trading Monday, after a wildly volatile session that saw the Dow erase a more than 1,100 point decline to finish the day in positive territory. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 19 points. S&P 500 futures were flat, while Nasdaq 100 futures
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Kohl’s (KSS) – Kohl’s soared 27.3% in premarket trading as takeover interest in the retailer ramps up. Starboard-backed Acacia Research is offering $64 per share for Kohl’s, compared to Friday’s close of $46.84 a share. People familiar with the matter say private-equity firm
Consumers linger outside a Haikou duty free shop at Riyue Square, Haikou City, Hainan Province, China, on September 2, 2021. Wang Jianfeng | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese consumers are spending more on luxury goods at home, even if they can’t easily travel abroad due to pandemic-related restrictions, consultancy Bain & Company
Trader on the floor of the NYSE, Jan. 21, 2022. CNBC Stock futures rose slightly in overnight trading Sunday, following the S&P 500’s worst week since March 2020, as investors awaited more corporate earnings results and a key policy decision from the Federal Reserve. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 100 points.
People walk in front of the entrance of the five-star Paris Marriott Hotel. Fred Dufour | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Marriott International — Shares of the hotel chain jumped more than 4% after the company provided an update on its development process in 2021. Marriott said
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaking at a re-nomination hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, on January 11, 2022, in Washington, DC. Pool / Getty The Federal Reserve on Thursday released its long-awaited study of a digital dollar, exploring the pros and cons of the much-debated issue and soliciting public