Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: Nike — Shares soared 10%. The sneaker company announced that CEO John Donahoe would step down from the role on Oct. 13. Nike veteran Elliott Hill, who had been at the company for 32 years before retiring in 2020, will...
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tech stocks — Key tech names rallied a day after the Federal Reserve's supersized rate cut decision. Tesla and Meta jumped around 7% and 4%, respectively, while chip darlings Nvidia and ASML each advanced more than 5%. Edgewise Therapeutics —...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has unveiled his latest buzzword to describe monetary policy, with a "recalibration" of policy at a pivotal moment for the central bank.At his news conference following Wednesday's open market committee meeting, Powell used variations of the word no fewer than eight times as he...
LAS VEGAS, United States, September 19th, 2024, ChainwireBlockchain storage layer Xandeum has announced that it will reveal its blueprint for scaling Solana storage at Breakpoint 2024 on September 20, 2024. At the flagship Solana conference in Singapore, Xandeum will also share details of its new storage-enabled liquid staking program...
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.
The U.S. economy showed few signs of recession in the second quarter, as gross domestic product grew at a faster-than-expected pace during the period, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.GDP, the sum of all goods and services activity, increased at a 2.4% annualized rate for the April-through-June period, better than...
Turkish Central Bank Governor Hafize Gaye Erkan answers questions during a news conference for the Inflation Report 2023-III in Ankara, Turkey on July 27, 2023.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesTurkey's central bank expects inflation to hit 58% by the end of 2023, its new governor Hafize Gaye...
The Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate by a quarter of a point Wednesday, in its continued effort to tame inflation.In a move that financial markets had completely priced in, the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee raised the funds rate to a target range of 5.25% to 5.5%....
InvestmentNews columnist Ed Slott got a lot of people thinking about Roth IRA and Roth 401(k) strategies this week — and whether traditional tax-deferred saving should be anyone’s go-to in the current tax environment. In his column Monday, Slott urged advisors to be “sounding the alarm” about growing pretax balances...
President Joe Biden has nominated former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley as the next commissioner of the Social Security Administration. The agency is responsible for distributing Social Security to more than 70 million beneficiaries and commands a $1 trillion budget, according to Reuters, which reported O’Malley’s selection Wednesday. It has been...
Brokers and investment advisors would have to remediate conflicts of interest related to interactions with investors conducted through artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and similar technology under a proposal released Wednesday by the SEC. By a 3-2 vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved releasing a 243-page proposal for public comment...
The Mega Millions jackpot grew to $910 million on July 26, 2023.Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesThe Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $910 million, with the next high-stakes drawing on Friday at 11:00 p.m. ET.The big prize has only exceeded $1 billion four times,...
