Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Lululemon (LULU) – Lululemon reported quarterly earnings of 22 cents per share, 1 cent a share below estimates. The athletic apparel maker’s revenue also came in below forecasts amid virus-related store closures. It was Lululemon’s first earnings miss in three years, although it
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The Robinhood application is displayed in the App Store on an Apple Inc. iPhone in an arranged photograph taken in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Retail investors speculating in stocks are not responsible for the market’s comeback and their top picks tend to underperform, according
A man looks at an electronic quotation board displaying stock prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on May 26, 2020. KAZUHIRO NOGI | AFP via Getty Images After reaping profits during the market’s rebound, some Robinhood traders are getting squeezed as the Dow violently reverses its winning ways with a 1,600-point plunge. The
Michael Duva Lawmakers are at loggerheads over an extension of enhanced unemployment benefits being paid to millions of out-of-work Americans. Congressional Democrats want to continue the extra $600 weekly jobless payments that began when the CARES Act was enacted in March, calling them a financial lifeline that has helped families pay rent and put food
Investors may want to curb their enthusiasm for the market rally. The Bleakley Advisory Group’s Peter Boockvar warns stocks are vulnerable to a 10% or more summer sell-off. “That’s when the gut check is going to take place,” the chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. “Right now, the market is ignoring all
Chinese tourists with facial masks stand in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 3, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images U.S. pressure on Chinese stocks looks set to accelerate the growth of capital markets in Hong Kong and mainland China, as investors
Standard Chartered headquarters and a HSBC building are pictured on March 16, 2020 in Hong Kong. Zhang Wei | China News Service via Getty Images A major shareholder in both HSBC and Standard Chartered has hit out at the banks over their support for China’s controversial new national security law in Hong Kong. In a
A new bill that targets Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges could not only “backfire” on American investors, but also hurt Wall Street — which will lobby against the legislation, a Harvard professor told CNBC on Tuesday. Amid a tide of anti-China sentiment stateside, the U.S. Senate last month passed a bill that could essentially ban
President Donald Trump conducts a bill signing ceremony with members of his economic team in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 05, 2020. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A conspiracy theory has emerged relative to the unemployment rate, suggesting that the Trump administration rigged official statistics to give the illusion of a
Customers inspect a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NC Dodge Grand Caravan minivan at a Carvana Co. location in Westminster, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 28, 2020. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the coronavirus was spreading from China to Europe and eventually to the U.S., Americans borrowed a record amount of money to
It appears a major shift is underway in the bond market. BofA Global Research’s Mark Cabana sees an improving jobs market adding fuel to the Treasury yield rally and providing some relief to the Federal Reserve ahead of Tuesday’s policy meeting. “We were really thinking that the economy would still really struggle to rebound in
Shoppers enter a Michaels store in Miami, Florida. Scott McIntyre | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores is having its best day ever. The reason behind this monster move was a simple bullish call from JPMorgan. Shares of Michaels are up than 50% on Monday, its biggest one-day jump on record. This
Stanley Druckenmiller Adam Jeffery | CNBC Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller said tech giants Amazon and Microsoft are still among his biggest holdings, but noted he is quite bearish on growth stocks as a group. “I have still something like Amazon and Microsoft in my largest holdings, but I have the least growth weighting in my
Dada Founder and CEO, Philip Kuai, at the company’s Nasdaq IPO celebration held in Shanghai on June 5, 2020. Courtesy of Dada SHANGHAI – Chinese grocery delivery company Dada is confident it can stand up to U.S. scrutiny as a newly listed company in New York. The Walmart-invested company went public under the ticker DADA on
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is pictures on May 26, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back here for updates: 8:10 am: Airlines continue to soar on reopening trade Shares of the major U.S. airlines are jumping in premarket trading
The coronavirus pandemic altered society in immeasurable ways, including, of course, investing. Stocks that benefited from people staying home, such as Netflix and Zoom Video, outperformed expectations in the past few months, while retailers and airline companies, among others, saw their stocks fall off a cliff. And now some of those worst-performing stocks of March
Wall Street and New York Stock Exchange in New York. Alexander Spatari The stock market has defied gravity in recent weeks, rebounding nearly as quickly as it sold off amid the coronavirus pandemic. The threat of another steep decline is omnipresent. But stock investors shouldn’t be concerned, experts say. In fact, panicking and selling out
A “Now Hiring” sign advertising jobs at Lowe’s is seen as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Homestead, Florida, U.S., April 17, 2020. Marco Bello | Reuters Quite unexpectedly and rather suddenly, investors have been given a reset, a reprieve, a chance at a fresh start. What should they do with it?
Members of the Long Beach, New York CSEA civil service union hold a drive-by protest in front of Long Beach City Hall to protest further union layoffs on May 26, 2020. (Photo by Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images) The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 13.3% in May, defying expectations of a much bleaker
Managers at the massive Bell facilities in North Texas had a problem. As 5,000 employees building helicopters needed to stay on the job, the company — a division of Textron — had to take steps to keep workers safe. One step included plans to take employee temperatures as they came to work. The company set