Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Domino's Pizza , Ulta Beauty — Shares surged about 8% after Berkshire Hathaway announced a new stake in the pizza chain in a regulatory filing. The Warren Buffett-led firm bought more than 1.2 million shares, making the stake worth around...
Disney is back. After several quarters of cutting costs and revamping its streaming business, CEO Robert Iger's turnaround plans is paying off: On Thursday, the entertainment giant reported strong quarterly earnings and a robust outlook for the coming year. Revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter totaled $22.57 billion, topping...
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Disney — The media stock popped 7% on stronger-than-expected earnings and guidance, aided by growth in its streaming business. The company said it expects high-single-digit adjusted earnings growth in fiscal 2025. Capri , Tapestry — Both luxury apparel stocks rose...
Scene from the FX series Shogun.Source: Disney | FXDisney has done the math on separating its TV networks business, and it appears too messy to be done — at least for now.The company's chief financial officer, Hugh Johnston, said Thursday on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that the "cost is probably...
Baupost's Seth Klarman took a sizable stake in discount store Dollar General last quarter, while exiting Michael Kors-owner Capri before its megadeal to merge with Tapestry was blocked by regulators. The notable hedge fund investor built a $195 million stake in Dollar General, making it his eighth biggest holding...
Check out the companies making...
Disney is back. After several...
Gregg Greenberg spent 14 years as a journalist at TheStreet.com where he wrote the highly popular column "The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week". His work has appeared in magazines ranging from Glamour to ESPN the Magazine, and on humor sites such as Points in Case.
An Ozempic (semaglutide) injection pen is seen on a kitchen table in Riga, Latvia on 06 August, 2023. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesHeather Le Biller shed 9 pounds within the first week of taking Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic – and then even more as she continued...
Dan Otter has heard the story too many times: An insurance company rep walks into a classroom and pitches a teacher on a high-fee annuity in the school district’s 403(b) plan. Early in his teaching days, it happened to him. “I was in my classroom, desperately trying to get ready for...
Michael Sindicich Contributor Michael Sindicich is the EVP and general manager of expense at Navan, an all-in-one travel and expense management solution. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis was easily the most destructive economic crisis since the Great Depression. And yet, it’s not without a touch of irony that without it, we wouldn’t...
Uncle Sam is not the only one telling investors to buy U.S. bonds. Financial advisors are too. PGIM Investments’ quarterly survey of advisors — conducted just before the banking turmoil in March and again in May — shows that financial advisors ranked Treasuries, municipal bonds and investment-grade corporate bonds as...
Investment advisors expressed confidence their clients won’t be among those targeted by the IRS in an initiative that cracks down on wealthy tax cheats. The IRS announced Friday that it would use funding from tax and climate legislation approved last year to increase scrutiny of high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations...
Women who put their careers on pause are more than twice as likely than men who do the same to go back to work after retirement. That’s according to data Friday from Charles Schwab, based on a June survey of 1,000 U.S. residents ages 22 to 88 with $50,000 to...
Natalie Wolfsen has stepped down as chief executive of AssetMark Financial Holdings to take over as the new CEO of Orion Advisor Solutions, a competing technology and turnkey asset management provider. AssetMark announced Friday that Michael Kim, a 13-year veteran of AssetMark, has been named the company’s new CEO, effective...
