A logo is displayed next to a gas turbine at the General Electric Co. (GE) energy plant in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. General Electric Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 20. Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. General
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The signage is seen at Alibaba Group headquarters during the company’s 11.11 Singles’ Day global shopping festival in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, November 11, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters Here are the stocks making headlines in midday trading. Ulta Beauty — Shares of the cosmetics company fell more than 6% after reporting full-year same-store sales
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Ulta Beauty (ULTA) – Ulta Beauty announced that CEO Mary Dillon will step down in June to be replaced by company President David Kimbell. Dillon will move to the role of executive chairman. Separately, the cosmetics retailer beat estimates on the top and bottom lines for
Florida resident Joseph Louis at a May 22 protest in Miami Beach asking the state to fix its unemployment system. Joe Raedle | Getty Images In many ways, the U.S. unemployment system has undergone a radical shift over the past year. Washington State expanded benefits to millions of previously ineligible workers. State labor agencies —
Pedestrians pass in front of an Ulta Beauty store in New York. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: Ulta Beauty – The beauty retailer’s stock dipped about 7% on the news that CEO Mary Dillon will be stepping down in June, with company
Robin Li, chief executive officer of Baidu. Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Baidu will raise $3.6 billion in an upcoming Hong Kong secondary listing if it prices shares at the upper end of their range. On Thursday, the Nasdaq-listed Chinese technology giant released its prospectus for the Hong Kong listing.
A Model Y vehicle displayed at a Tesla flagship store on Jan. 4, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Gao Yuwen | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Tesla‘s Model Y is getting off to a solid start in China, less than three months since deliveries began. The mid-size SUV was the third best-selling electric
The AMC Empire 25 near Times Square is open as New York City’s cinemas reopen for the first time in a year following the coronavirus shutdown, on March 5, 2021. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Wednesday: Bumble – Bumble shares jumped 5.2% after
I began my career in finance in 1994. My first job in finance had a description like the one below: Make 250+ cold calls a day. Most people will hang up on you or yell at you, while you are working in a back room with about 15 other people. Once you get seven “warm
A Nasdaq market maker works at the Nasdaq Market site in New York, May 2, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures edged higher in overnight trading Tuesday following a sharp rebound in technology shares amid falling bond yields. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 35 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100
Valera Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images $300 vs. $400 a week A $300 weekly increase in weekly unemployment benefits would come on top of standard state benefits. Workers got $324 a week in state benefits, on average, in the third quarter last year, according to most recent U.S. Labor Department data. That aid replaced about
As I reflect on my experience as a woman in the investment industry, I’d like to share a recent conversation I had with a student at Nichols College, a small private college in my home state. A male student asked me what my biggest challenge was in getting to where I am today in my
Dow futures moved higher in overnight trading on Monday, putting the index on track to extend its rally from the regular session. Dow futures rose about 130 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.5% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.6%. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied more than 300 points on investor optimism about
Cathy Wood Crystal Mercedes | CNBC Ark Investment Management founder and CEO Cathie Wood said she is not worried about the recent drop in her funds and that the bull market is simply broadening out to include more strategies like value. The hot handed investor added that over time her disruptive strategy will pay off,
Investors may want to hold on even tighter. Moody’s Analytics Mark Zandi believes Wall Street is significantly underestimating the seriousness of an inflation comeback, and he warns it will affect every corner of the market — from big tech to cyclical trades. “Inflationary pressures will develop very quickly,” the firm’s chief economist told CNBC’s “Trading
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE U.S. stock futures jumped on Sunday evening as a new stimulus package from Washington headed toward final passage this week. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 219 points, or 0.7%. Those for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100
The flags of China, U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party are displayed in a flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China, May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday that the U.S. needs to remove “unreasonable restrictions” for the two countries’ relationship
Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — As the U.S. pumps trillions of dollars into its economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, economists are concerned about spillover effects in China, including the risk of “imported inflation.” Worries about high inflation, or rapidly rising prices, hit U.S. markets last week. The U.S. Congress is reviewing
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: IMAX (IMAX) – IMAX lost 21 cents per share, one cent a share more than analysts had anticipated. The movie theater operator’s revenue came in above Wall Street estimates. Sales were helped by stronger performances in Asian markets, and the company is anticipating
A logo of a Virgin Galactic is seen outside the building during the company’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 28, 2019 in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Virgin Galactic – The space company’s shares