Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Home Depot (HD) – The home improvement retailer reported quarterly earnings of $2.28 per share, beating the consensus estimate of $2.10 a share. Revenue and same-store sales were also above Wall Street forecasts, and Home Depot also announced a 10% dividend increase. Macy’s
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Nikolay Storonsky, chief executive of Revolut, on stage at the MoneyConf fintech event in Lisbon, Portugal. Seb Daly | Web Summit | Getty Images British financial technology start-up Revolut has raised $500 million in a fresh round of funding that values it at $5.5 billion. The investment round was led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital
Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the annual session of China Development Forum (CDF) 2018 at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China March 26, 2018. Jason Lee | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines midday: Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices — Shares of Nvidia sunk more than 5% and Advanced Micro Devices tanked more than 6%
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) – Berkshire saw operating profit drop by 23% for its latest quarter, but surging stock prices for its holdings like Apple (AAPL) led to record full-year earnings. Berkshire’s Warren Buffett is a guest for all three hours of this morning’s
Investor Paul Meeks is bracing for a bear market in technology. Meeks, who’s known for running the world’s largest tech fund during the dot-com boom, sees 20% pullback risks growing as the coronavirus outbreak spreads. “There is some comeuppance due, and unfortunately I think the coronavirus is that exogenous variable that is a catalyst to
Mohammed Al-Jadaan, Saudi Arabia’s finance minister, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Saudi Arabia is willing to support crisis-stricken Lebanon, but wants to see a realistic reform plan first, its finance minister said during the G-20 Summit in Riyadh on Sunday. Asked if the kingdom would
When Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, should that influence the Fed’s decisions? Two Fed officials diverged on that issue in remarks Friday at a monetary policy conference in New York. The disagreement occurred just as the scenario is playing out in real life: Investors increasingly expect the Fed to cut
A trader works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, December 19, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Trying to time the market can be dangerous, but there are certain signals that the professionals look for when trying to gauge future risk in stocks which could be helpful for regular investors
Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett thinks stocks are the place to be invested in for the long haul if interest rates and corporate taxes remain near current levlels. “If something close to current rates should prevail over the coming decades and if corporate tax rates also remain near the low level businesses
A contractor prepares a sliding door for a home under construction at the Toll Brothers Inc. Enclave at Rye Brook housing development in Rye Brook, New York Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Owning a home has long been the individual investor’s opportunity to hold real estate. But the American millennial population is waiting