Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Brighthouse Financial — The insurance company soared 26% after it announced it would be bought by Aquarian Capital for $70 per share in cash, or around $4.1 billion. The deal is expected to close next year. Golden Entertainment — The casino operator surged 36% after announcing…
Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood has trimmed her most bullish forecast for bitcoin, acknowledging that the rapid rise of stablecoins is taking on a role she once thought bitcoin would fill. “Stablecoins are usurping part of the role that we thought bitcoin would play,” Wood, CEO and chief investment officer of Ark, said Thursday on CNBC’s ”…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Take-Two Interactive Software — Shares of the video game developer tanked 7% after Rockstar Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two, announced a further delay in the release of Grand Theft Auto VI to November 2026 from May 2026. The announcement marks the second delay for the highly…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: XYZ —The financial services provider plunged 10% after reporting third-quarter earnings of 54 cents per share, while analysts polled by LSEG were expecting 67 cents. Block’s $6.11 billion revenue also came in below the forecast $6.31 billion. Globus Medical — The medical device maker soared 32%…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Cisco — Shares of Cisco gained more than 7% in extended trading after the networking company posted better-than-expected profit and revenue for its fiscal first quarter. Cisco earned $1 per share, excluding items, on $14.88 billion in revenue, while analysts polled by LSEG expected 98 cents…
Altimeter Capital founder and CEO Brad Gerstner said Friday the recent pullback in technology shares is a healthy correction after a monthslong surge. “The Nasdaq’s gone up 40% off the bottom in April. The market was kind of looking for a reason for a breather,” Gerstner said on CNBC’s ” Money Movers .” “This week,…
Susan Collins, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins on Wednesday…
Skims underwear is displayed on a shelf at a Nordstrom store on March 25, 2025 in Corte Madera, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Kim Kardashian’s Skims brand has raised $225 million in new funding led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, valuing the shapewear and apparel company at $5 billion — up from roughly $4 billion…
Fed Governor Stephen Miran on Friday suggested that surging demand for dollar-denominated stablecoins could help push U.S. interest rates lower. In a speech delivered for an audience of economists in New York, the central bank official and appointee of President Donald Trump said the flood of crypto tokens pegged to the dollar could tamp down…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Alkermes — The biotech company dropped 9% as traders weighed phase 2 trial results for its ALKS 2680 drug, which aims to treat narcolepsy. While the company will be advancing the drug to a Phase 3 trial, a higher range of doses or a split dosing…
