Alternate crop.) Zion Williamson #1 of the Duke Blue Devils dunks the ball against the Syracuse Orange during their game in the quarterfinal round of the 2019 Men’s ACC Basketball Tournament at Spectrum Center on March 14, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. ( Streeter Lecka | Getty Images Disney and Charter are still discussing a
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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Two words from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and one tweet from President Donald Trump turned the market upside down rapidly this week. Some traders saw it coming and are ready to reap big money as the sell-off gains steam.
File photo of an ITT Technical Institute campus in Anaheim, California. Susan Goldman | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Morgan Marler’s 5-year-old daughter, Lilian, asks her why she doesn’t work anymore, Marler doesn’t know what to say. “I can’t explain debt to her,” Marler, 29, said. “And how I went to school and it was
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters With new risks from trade wars, stocks head into the final weeks of summer vulnerable to a pull back or even correction. The market was down sharply in the past week, buffeted first by disappointment over the Fed’s more hawkish-than-expected
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Friday: Pinterest — Pinterest’s stock soared more than 20% after the social media company topped estimates for its second quarter revenues and surpassed 300 million monthly active users. The company reported $261 million in revenue
Ben Silbermann, co-founder and chief executive officer of Pinterest Inc., center, rings the opening bell on the floor on the New York Stock Exchange during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.
AFP | Getty Images Square is getting out of the food delivery business. The payments company is selling its on-demand delivery service Caviar to DoorDash for $410 million, Square announced during second-quarter earnings Thursday. The acquisition will be a combination of cash and DoorDash preferred stock, and is expected to close at the end of
Traders at the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Thursday: Western Digital — Western Digital shares rose more than 7% on Thursday after an analyst at Wedbush upgraded the data storage device company to neutral from underperform. The analyst cited increased pricing for one of
Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images The U.S. Federal Reserve‘s interest rate cut takes some pressure off China‘s central bank, amid the multitude of challenges it already faces to keep the economy growing steadily. The People’s Bank of China is unlikely to respond with major changes to its monetary policy, analysts said. Instead, the
A Fitbit display at a Target store in Los Angeles. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Fitbit plummeted as much as 21% in after-hours trading after the maker of health and fitness devices cut its guidance for the next quarter. In its second-quarter earnings report, the company said,