Wall Street stands empty as people stay away from the area due to the coronavirus on March 30, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images U.S. stock futures were flat on Thursday night as investors continued to weigh the prospects of a potential coronavirus treatment. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up just
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Pedestrians pass in front of an E-Trade location in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Alphabet — The tech giant’s stock was down 2% in extended trading after CNBC reported that Google is reducing its marketing budgets by as much as half for the second half of
Fuel prices are displayed at a Phillips 66 gas station in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Some millennial investors have been duped by a complex oil ETF that is struggling to stay alive. Traders on Robinhood and SoFi Invest flocked to buy the United States
An employee makes a pizza next to a Just Eat Plc branded delivery bag in the kitchen of The Fat Pizza takeaway pizza restaurant in Southend-on-Sea, U.K., on Thursday, Dec 19, 2019. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images Dutch food delivery firm Takeaway.com’s £6.2 billion ($7.6 billion) takeover of British rival Just Eat has
Economic forecaster Lakshman Achuthan warns the coronavirus pandemic is hitting the U.S. economy harder than the financial crisis. “This is a brutal recession,” he told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. “This recession is extraordinarily deep. Already, you’ve got 22 million people filing for jobless claims compared to 8.7 million jobs lost during the Great Recession.”
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a chain of restaurants in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France, specializing in Mission burritos and tacos. Roberto Machado Noa | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Chipotle — Shares of the Mexican restaurant chain rose nearly 10% following its strong
Glow Wellness | Getty Images Gyms in China‘s capital city of Beijing were forced to close again over the weekend, adding pressure to an industry that’s already seen the collapse of thousands of fitness businesses nationwide. The coronavirus, which emerged late last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has swept across the country and only started
A moment of truth is coming for the world’s biggest technology companies. They are starting to report first quarter results as the coronavirus shutdowns slam into the markets. But tech analyst Gene Munster expects a couple of widely held names to weather the storm and emerge as big winners: Apple and Tesla. “Investors will have
In the course of my 36-year career, I’ve covered five crashes in the price of oil. In two cases OPEC, OPEC + or some group of oil producers flooded the markets with crude oil to gain competitive advantage over rival countries. In two other cases, financial market shocks crushed the price of crude and in
Smucker’s Fruit & Honey brand fruit spread Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. IBM — The technology company’s stock fell 3% in extended trading after IBM reported first-quarter financial results. The company reported revenue of $17.57 billion while analysts polled by Refinitiv expected $17.62 billion.
If you’re a long-term investor, Federated Hermes’ Phil Orlando sees potential for record gains. But if you’re looking for upside this year, you may want to hunker down some more. “The economic and corporate earnings news for the next month or two is going to be dreadful,” the firm’s chief equity market strategist told CNBC’s “Trading
Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: Boeing — Boeing shares fell more than 3% after the China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co. canceled the purchase of 29 Boeing 737 Max jets. Boeing has lost more than half of its value this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. United Airlines — Shares of United Airlines
Paul Meeks is reworking his investment strategy due to coronavirus risks. The long-time tech investor recently parted ways with two of his top picks: Mastercard and Visa. “They do require to get a lot of swipe fees, a lot of face-to-face transactions in places like hotels, bars and restaurants and I just don’t see that happening,” the
A man wears a protective mask as he walks on Wall Street during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, New York, U.S., March 13, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters U.S. stock futures opened lower on Sunday night as investors weigh the latest news on the coronavirus front along with another decline in crude prices.
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Procter & Gamble (PG) – The consumer products giant earned $1.17 per share for its latest quarter, beating consensus estimates by 4 cents a share. Revenue came in below analysts’ projections. Organic sales were up 6% during the quarter thanks in large part
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 2, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters 8:12 am: Trump lays out three-stage reopening of the country President Donald Trump has issued a three-stage process for the economy to reopen slowly as the coronavirus recovery process begins. In an 18-page
Lyft driver Steven Smith uses a sanitizing wipe to disinfect his vehicle as he waits to get a call from a passenger in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Smith and other Lyft drivers have seen a decline in ridership amidst the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place in response to the global outbreak of the
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said that he sees some aspects of the economy coming back online but doubts growth will get back to normal through 2020. Williams spoke Friday with Steve Liesman on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Areas such as construction should be the first to come back, he said, echoing comments from
James Bullard David A. Grogan | CNBC St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard proposed what he sees as the best economic solution to the coronavirus crisis: Pay full costs for any firm that comes up with a test for the virus that can assure the public that it’s safe to resume activity. Doing so,
Pedestrians pass a JPMorgan Chase & Co. bank branch near the New York Stock Exchange in 2018. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase says it has closed more small business relief loans than any other bank, but it still has a huge mountain of applications from business owners who are now in limbo.