Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. FedEx — Shares of delivery company fell more than 10% after FedEx's fiscal second quarter missed estimates on the top and bottom lines. FedEx reported $3.99 in adjusted earnings per share on $22.17 billion of revenue. Analysts surveyed by LSEG...
House for sale with "For Sale" real estate sign in yard in spring or summer season. No people.Fstop123 | E+ | Getty ImagesMortgage demand fell last week compared to the previous week, despite a continued drop in rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted index. The average contract...
Soumyabrata Roy | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDrugmakers are closing out a year when they achieved several historic firsts that will shape the pharmaceutical industry in 2024 and beyond. The weight loss drug market transformed into the pharmaceutical industry's newest gold rush this year, as demand for costly but highly effective...
A FedEx plane carrying Ya Ya, a female giant panda that has lived in the United States for two decades, lands at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on April 27, 2023 in Shanghai, China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesFedEx shares tumbled 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the...
Southwest Airlines ranked as the second best domestic airline, according to Bounce's 2023 Airline Index.Aaronp/bauer-griffin | Gc Images | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines and its pilots' union have reached a new preliminary labor agreement, ending months of tense negotiations.Southwest is the last of the largest U.S. airlines to strike a...
DETROIT – General Motors has cut the size of its Buick dealership network roughly in half in the U.S. through an ongoing voluntary buyout program, an executive told CNBC.The 1,000-store reduction aims to increase the amount of sales per location, or throughput, and profits at the remaining dealers, according...
Loaded containers stacked on top of a cargo ship sailing in a canal on Janvier 20, 2017 in Suez Canal, Red sea, Egypt. Camille Delbos | Corbis News | Getty ImagesSo far, shippers have diverted about more than $30 billion worth of cargo away from the Red Sea as they...
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Chewy — Shares popped 7.8% after Jefferies initiated coverage of the pet e-commerce company with a buy rating and $27 price target, which suggests about 25% upside from Monday's close. Jefferies said Chewy should benefit from increasing pet e-commerce penetration...
Target's shuttered small-format store on Folsom Street in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, November 2023.Gabrielle FonrougeOn Sept. 26, Target set off a national firestorm when it said it would close nine stores in four states because theft and organized retail crime had made them too dangerous to run.On its face,...
The GrinchSource: Universal Studios It's human nature for a new year to bring optimism and hope.For executives, investors and employees in the entertainment and telecommunications industries, 2024 is set to disappoint.Maybe that's too grinchy. Some things will get better. The actors' and writers' strikes are over. The 2024 U.S. presidential...