Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Genuine Parts — Shares fell about 20% on the back of the company's weaker-than-expected earnings for the third quarter. During the period, Genuine Parts earned $1.88 per share, excluding items, below the $2.42 per share that analysts polled by FactSet...
Interface.ai, a customer automation platform for banks and other financial institutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners. $20 million of the round was equity, while the remaining $10 million was in the form of debt. It’s Interface’s first outside capital;...
Much of the world has managed to successfully lower inflation and engineer an economic soft landing, avoiding recession, but faces rising geopolitical risks and weaker long-term growth prospects, according to the International Monetary Fund. Global headline inflation will fall to 3.5% on an annual basis by the end of 2025,...
General view of the City of London skyline, the capital's financial district, in October.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its 2024 growth outlook for the United Kingdom, saying declines in interest rates and inflation would boost domestic demand.The IMF now...
Christian Klein, Co-CEO of German software and cloud computing giant SAP, speaks during a press conference to present SAP's financial results for 2019 on January 28, 2020 in Walldorf, southwestern Germany. - German software giant SAP reported a bottom line undermined by heavy restructuring costs, but lifted forecasts for...
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Cheesecake Factory — Shares gained more than 3% after activist investor JCP Investment Management built a stake in the company and asked it to consider spinning off three of its brands into a separate company. General Motors — Shares were...
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.
Representatives from more than 30 retailers joined a major industry lobbying group on Capitol Hill on Thursday, as they ramped up pressure to pass a law that backers say will curb retail theft.The National Retail Federation escalated its campaign to rally support for the bill, known as the Combating...
Another company is settling fraud charges from regulators amid a widespread crackdown on precious metals dealers that target retirees. The firm, Safeguard Metals, along with its sole owner, Jeffrey Ikahn, allegedly defrauded customers to whom it marketed gold IRAs of $68 million, according to two separate lawsuits brought by the...
Ford workers produce the electric F-150 Lightning pickup on Dec. 13, 2022 at the automaker's Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REVC).Michael Wayland | CNBCAs a result, it's postponing about $12 billion in planned spending on new EV manufacturing capacity.Customers' reluctance to pay extra for EVs has complicated Ford's ambitious...
Last year was a lot like a Sunday evening — pleasant and satisfying, but with the clear and gathering notion of hard work ahead. Losses in the financial markets and continued inflation created the expectation over the year that dire times may be on the horizon. As a result,...
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Amazon — The e-commerce giant's shares were roughly flat. Amazon issued fourth-quarter sales guidance ranging between $160 billion to $167 billion, while analysts polled by LSEG called for revenue of $166.6 billion. Amazon beat analysts' forecasts on the top...
Michael Reynolds, principal at Elevation Financial, is an entrepreneur at heart, having built and sold multiple businesses over two decades, including a digital marketing agency. For 23 years, he helmed the agency as it evolved from a fledgling startup to a thriving small business. But burned out by red tape,...
Signage outside Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIntel shares rose about 6% in after-hours trading after the company reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat expectations for profit and sales, even as overall revenue declined.Here's how Intel...
