Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Fortinet — Shares jumped more than 7% after TD Cowen upgraded the cybersecurity stock to buy from hold, saying rising memory prices won’t hurt the company as much as some suspect. The firm’s $100 price target suggests 29% upside ahead. Bausch Health — The pharmaceutical stock…
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought. Kevin Mohatt | Kevin Lamarque | | Reuters Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday accused the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of undermining President Donald Trump‘s stated push to make credit cards more affordable, according…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Intel — Shares fell 13% after Intel reported mixed results for the fourth quarter, in addition to issuing softer guidance than expected for the current three-month period. The company posted 15 cents per share on an adjusted basis, topping analysts’ consensus estimate of 8 center per share,…
The sudden collapse last fall of a string of American companies backed by private credit has thrust a fast-growing and opaque corner of Wall Street lending into the spotlight. Private credit, also known as direct lending, is a catch-all term for lending done by nonbank institutions. The practice has been around for decades but surged…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Intel — Shares of the chipmaker slid more than 6% in extended trading. Intel gave soft revenue and earnings per share guidance for the current quarter. Intel said it expects first-quarter revenue between $11.7 billion and $12.7 billion, and breakeven adjusted earnings per share. Analysts polled…
Brex co-founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras. Brex Capital One said Thursday that it was acquiring startup Brex for $5.15 billion, the latest splashy deal undertaken by CEO Richard Fairbank. The firm, which disclosed the deal in its fourth-quarter earnings statement, said it would pay 50% cash and 50% stock for Brex. Shares of the…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Procter & Gamble — The consumer packaged goods company shed nearly 1.5% after its fiscal second-quarter revenue missed expectations. Procter & Gamble reported revenue of $22.21 billion, less than the $22.28 billion expected from analysts polled by LSEG. However, its earnings of $1.88 per…
Retail traders leaned on their 2025 playbook and bought the dip this week as market volatility surged. Stocks posted their worst day since October on Tuesday after President Trump threatened to take over Greenland and announced tariffs on eight European nations that opposed him. But the market rebounded on Wednesday after Trump announced a “framework”…
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s senior managing director, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City on Sept. 28, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC BlackRock fixed income chief Rick Rieder’s star is rising as a potential Federal Reserve chair following flattering remarks Wednesday from President Donald Trump. In a CNBC interview, Trump called Rieder “very…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is nearing the end of a search to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and hinted he has his candidate in mind. In a CNBC interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the president said a search that began in September and once included as many as…
