Finance

Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Los Angeles, California. May 1, 2021. Gerard Miller | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway‘s operating income continued to rebound as its myriad of businesses from energy to railroads benefited from the economic reopening. The conglomerate reported operating earnings of $6.69 billion in the second quarter, up 21% from $5.51

In this article DBX SPCE BYND TRIP Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his crew, lands after reaching the edge of space above Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S., July 11, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading.

U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s highly anticipated jobs report. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 17 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were flat. Stocks finished Thursday’s session in the green, with the S&P 500 rising 0.6% to close

In this article NVAX DKNG HOOD DBX SPCE YELP Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson prepares to spray champagne after flying with a crew in Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity to the edge of space at Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S., July 11, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters Check out the

A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in a trading room at KEB Hana Bank in Seoul on June 21, 2021. JUNG YEON-JE | AFP via Getty Images Shares of Kakao Bank shot up more than 70% during its market debut in South Korea on Friday. Kakao Bank is South Korea’s first digital bank to go

Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., listens during a Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit discussion in Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images With little fanfare, JPMorgan Chase has started giving its wealth management clients access to six crypto funds in the past month.

In this article EPC W FSLY BKNG The logo of US cloud computing services provider Fastly is seen on a smartphone screen. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Robinhood — Shares of the trading app dropped more than 14% after the newly

New Oriental is located at the West Yintai Campus, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province, China, on August 2, 2021. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images The Chinese government’s sudden crackdown on after-school education companies is raising costs for many parents and throwing millions of jobs into uncertainty. In a country where parents prize a good

In this article DBSM-SG DBS Group Holdings in the central business district of Singapore. Nicky Loh | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — DBS Group Holdings, the largest bank in Singapore and Southeast Asia, reported on Thursday second-quarter earnings that beat expectations as the economic recovery in its home market takes hold. The bank’s net

In this article GM LYFT HOOD Omar Marques | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Robinhood Markets — Robinhood shares rose in wild trading as the newly public online brokerage zoomed past its IPO price of $38 per share. The brokerage app surpassed its IPO debut volume of

U.S. stock futures fell slightly on Tuesday night after the S&P 500 rose to another fresh record during the regular session. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 33 points, or 0.09%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures dipped 0.09% and 0.03%, respectively. A strong earnings season continued after the bell Tuesday with Lyft and Caesars

A ship leaves a container port in the evening in Lianyungang in east China’s Jiangsu province Thursday, July 22, 2021. Feature China | Barcroft Media | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese companies wanting to go global are running into shipping problems. Access to cheap manufacturing at home gave Chinese businesses an advantage overseas. But it’s

In this article AAL TTWO CLX UAA HOOD People wait in line for t-shirts at a pop-up kiosk for the online brokerage Robinhood along Wall Street after the company went public with an IPO earlier in the day on July 29, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images

The market appears to be doing something that happens ahead of corrections. When the S&P 500, Nasdaq and the CBOE Volatility Index rise together, BTIG’s Julian Emanuel warns it’s often a precursor to a 10% to 15% pullback. “Whenever we’ve seen that going back to the beginning of 2018, we were essentially weeks away from

In this article .STI OCBC-SG UOBH-SG DBSM-SG Aerial view of Singapore’s central business district and bayfront area. BNBB Studio | Moment | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s top three banks are due to report second-quarter earnings this week, and investors will be watching for any announcements on dividend payments. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp and United Overseas

Samuel Corum | Getty Images News | Getty Images States’ early withdrawals from federal unemployment programs in recent weeks are helping Senate lawmakers finance upgrades to the nation’s infrastructure, according to legislative text unveiled Sunday. Twenty-six states, largely Republican, have pulled out of pandemic-era programs since mid-June. The American Rescue Plan offered federal unemployment assistance

The Li One electric car from Li Auto is displayed at the Moonstar Global Harbor shopping mall in Shanghai, China, May 10, 2021. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images BEIJING — Deliveries of what is essentially a hybrid electric car from U.S.-listed Li Auto surpassed those of rival start-up Xpeng for a second straight

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square, speaks during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images Square plans to buy Australian fintech company Afterpay as it looks to expand further into the booming

A customer shops for groceries at La Tapatia Market during a blackout in Napa, California, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The electric grid in the West is being tested like never before amid extreme-weather events, including raging wildfires and severe droughts fueled by climate change. Utility companies

In this article AMZN SWKS GILD TMUS PINS A worker assembles a box for delivery at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 30, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines Thursday after the bell:  Amazon — Amazon shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading after the company reported its first