FIVE, CHWY, MDB, LE and more

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Circle Internet Group — The stablecoin issuer priced its upsized, $1 billion initial public offering at $31 a share, above an expected range of $27-$28 and an initial range last week of $24 to $26, giving Circle a total market value of some $7 billion. Five […]

China’s quickly gaining an edge over the U.S. in biotech

Two graduate students research chemical products in a laboratory in Xiwangzhuang Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong province of China, on Dec. 26, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — For all the attention on U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence, new studies point to China’s rapid rise in biotechnology, especially for drug and agricultural development. […]

Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: FIVE, MDB, VRNT

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Five Below — Shares of the discount retailer added 2.5% on the back of strong first-quarter financial results and second-quarter guidance. Five Below reported adjusted earnings of 86 cents per share on $971 million in revenue, while analysts polled by LSEG called for 82 cents per […]

CRWD, TSLA, DLTR, THO and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: CrowdStrike — The cybersecurity stock was down nearly 7% after the company’s revenue forecast for the current quarter undershot analysts’ estimates. CrowdStrike said it expects revenue in the range between $1.14 billion and $1.15 billion, while analysts polled by LSEG were looking for $1.16 billion. Dollar […]

DLTR, WFC, CEG and more

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Dollar Tree — The budget retailer slid about 4% after saying earnings per share could decline by as much as 50% in the current quarter, partly due to cost pressures from tariffs. Analysts polled by FactSet expected per-share earnings to fall just 2%. Thor Industries — […]

Trump says ‘extremely hard’ to make a deal with China’s President Xi

Donald Trump said Wednesday that its was “extremely hard” to make a deal with China’s President Xi Jinping, at a time when the White House has been suggesting the two leaders could talk this week amid rising trade tensions. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday said the trade talks were “a bit stalled,” and the two […]

Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: HPE, CRWD, GWRE

Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Shares rose 3%, after the information technology company beat analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom lines. Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of 38 cents per share on revenue of $7.63 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG had expected earnings of 32 […]

Citigroup lifts banking curbs on gun makers and sellers

Signage at a Citibank branch in New York, US, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Citigroup on Tuesday ended a seven-year-old policy restricting how it provides banking services to firearm manufacturers, sellers and resellers. The bank launched the policy in March 2018 after a teenage gunman killed 17 people and injured more than […]

Fed Governor Lisa Cook sees tariffs raising inflation, complicating rate policy

Lisa Cook, governor of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 22, 2024.  Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook expressed concern Tuesday with the progress on inflation, saying recent lower readings could reverse after tariffs work their way through […]

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: BMBL, DG, SIG, PINS

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ferguson Enterprises — Shares surged 15% after the cooling solutions company reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.50 per share, exceeding the $2.01 analysts had predicted, according to FactSet. Ferguson’s $7.62 billion revenue was also above the $7.42 billion estimate. The company also slightly raised its full-year […]