Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Taiwan Semiconductor — Shares surged 12% after the company, which is the world's largest producer of advanced chips, reported a 54% gain in net profit for the third quarter driven by strong AI-related demand. Shares of chip giants Nvidia and...
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES — Netflix is due to report third-quarter earnings after the closing bell Thursday.Wall Street will be paying close attention to details surrounding the company's advertising-supported business model, upcoming live sporting events and the continued impact of its password crackdown on subscriber numbers.After...
Consumer spending held up in September, underscoring a resilient economy that is now getting a boost from the Federal Reserve, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.Retail sales increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4% on the month, up from the unrevised 0.1% gain in August and better than the 0.3% Dow Jones...
Palo Alto, United States, October 17th, 2024, ChainwireAkord, a web3 platform for securing and managing data, also begins its migration to Walrus ProtocolMysten Labs, the web3 infrastructure company, today announced that following a successful Devnet, Walrus Protocol, a decentralized storage network, has launched its public Testnet. Walrus Protocol stores and...
Travelers Insurance offices in New York City.Adam Jeffery | CNBCTravelers Companies' third-quarter profit beat Wall Street expectations as higher underwriting gains and investment income more than offset steep catastrophe losses, sending shares of the insurer up nearly 7%.Individuals and businesses are spending more on insurance, allowing insurers to attract...
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Global equities were positive in the second quarter of 2023, providing a median return of 2.3% for institutional investors. The stats are based on an analysis of more than 400 U.S. institutional asset owners in the Northern Trust All Funds Over $100 million plan universe, a group with more than...
Huawei's production campus is pictured here on April 25, 2019, in Dongguan, near Shenzhen, China.Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday reported 2.2% year-on-year growth in its consumer business revenue for the first half of the year.The modest growth comes...
BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 04: A logo hangs on the building of the Beijing branch of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) on December 4, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesSemiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. posted on Thursday a drop...
An Alibaba Group sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 6, 2023.Aly Song | ReutersChinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Thursday said revenue grew by 14% year on year in the quarter ended June 30. That's the biggest annual increase in sales since the September...
Employees prepare a window display at a Kate Spade store in The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands shopping mall in Singapore, June 19, 2020.Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines during midday trading Thursday.Disney — Shares of the media giant jumped 5.3%. Late Wednesday,...
Morsa Images | E+ | Getty ImagesMore from FA Playbook:Here's a look at other stories impacting the financial advisor business."The fact that we may see a soft landing or avoid a recession altogether doesn't mean people should change their strategy of building up a safety net and hopefully recession-proofing...
Social Security benefits are on track to increase by 3% in 2024, a response to cooling inflation that will dial back the annual cost-of-living adjustment from the much higher 8.7% implemented this year. Figures for the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, the CPI-W, published Thursday...
