Jay Leno gave CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” an optimistic outlook when it comes to the future of electric cars, despite the latest warning from General Motors to owners of some Chevy Bolts, advising them not to park within 50 feet of other cars. “The last days of old technology are always better than the
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Tourists visit the Bund waterfront area on May 10, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Wang Gang | Visual China Group | Getty Images Investors may need to be more careful when putting money into China, but there are still investing opportunities in world’s second largest economy, according to the chairman of Standard Chartered. Stocks of Chinese
In this article LVS WYNN BYND FSR DASH CSCO Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Beyond Meat (BYND) — Shares of the alternative-meat maker dipped 2.4% in premarket trading after Piper Sandler downgraded the company to an underweight rating. “Beyond is an early leader in plant-based meat, but we believe its current
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), August 19, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Stock futures edged up in overnight trading on Wednesday following a rebound on Wall Street as the market tried to avert the seasonally weak September. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 30 points. S&P 500 futures
In this article MRO WYNN SOFI KSU A worker cleans an escalator on Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Joe Buglewicz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Casino stocks — Casino stocks were under pressure for a second day Wednesday amid heightened
U.S. stock futures were flat Tuesday night after the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 300 points on rising investor worries about the state of the economic recovery and the next action by the Federal Reserve. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures ticked 8 points higher, or 0.02%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.05%
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei attends a panel discussion at the company headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China June 17, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING – Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei said it is expanding its team of scientists even as the company has lost revenue in the wake of U.S. sanctions. It’s a bet that
In this article LUV HLF GE ORCL An exterior view of the Oracle Field Office at Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, October 18, 2019. Tom Brenner | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Oracle – The tech company’s shares slid 3.7% after Oracle’s first-quarter revenue missed expectations. The company reported sales
In this article 9984.T-JP WeWork Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at WeWork headquarters in New York City on February 10, 2020. David A. Grogan | CNBC SoftBank Group is committing $3 billion to kickstart a second fund focused on investing in start-ups in Latin America, the Japanese tech conglomerate
U.S. stock index futures were modestly higher during overnight trading on Monday, after the S&P 500 finished in the green, snapping a five-day losing streak. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 75 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were up 0.13%. The Dow and S&P both advanced
In this article SPCE APA OXY DELL Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Marathon Oil — Shares of the exploration
SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. electric vehicles are plugged in at charging stations at a roadside parking lot in Liuzhou, China, on Monday, May 17, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — While investors watched dramatic surges in the stock prices of Chinese electric car makers like Nio and Xpeng, tens of thousands of
A breeder feeds piglets at a pig farm on May 13, 2020, in Bijie, Guizhou Province of China. Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Massive swings in pork prices in the last two years are roiling China’s hog farm industry. To capitalize on a doubling in prices in 2019, the five largest pork
A man looks at GameStop at 6th Avenue on February 25, 2021 in New York. John Smith | Corbis News | Getty Images GameStop staged a stunning intraday comeback from its post-earnings sell-off on Thursday as retail investors looked past the lack of clarity on turnaround plans and piled into the meme star. Shares of
Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo was hit with a $250 million fine from a banking regulator after it failed to properly execute a mortgage loss-mitigation program. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Thursday that the bank engaged in “unsafe or unsound practices” tied to its loan-modification
The SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich, Switzerland. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg via Getty Images SIX, Switzerland’s stock exchange, has won regulatory approval to launch its long-awaited digital bourse. The SIX Digital Exchange said Friday it obtained two licenses from FINMA, the country’s markets watchdog, to operate a stock exchange and depository for blockchain-based securities. SIX
In this article WFC BHC-CA ENDP AFRM 7203.T-JP NLSN Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Affirm Holdings (AFRM) – Affirm soared 22.4% in the premarket as the “buy now, pay later” company’s revenue easily topped estimates. Active merchant numbers more than quintupled and Affirm issued a positive outlook as well. Toyota Motor
A Mastercard debit card from U.K. digital bank Monzo. Monzo LONDON — Monzo and Revolut, two of Britain’s best-known financial technology firms, are planning to enter the booming “buy now, pay later” industry. Buy now, pay later, or BNPL, plans are an increasingly popular method of payment that lets users spread the cost of their
A day before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, veteran trader Art Cashin reflected Friday on the impact of the terrorist attacks on Wall Street, the country and him personally. Cashin, who has been an NYSE member since 1964, was in lower Manhattan on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He remained in the stock exchange
In this article IYG U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading on Thursday, after stocks registered a fourth-straight day of losses. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 10 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were slightly higher. During regular trading the Dow shed roughly 150 points,