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.
A house is for sale in Arlington, Virginia, July 13, 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesMortgage rates just continue to climb higher, taking a particularly big leap last week. As a result, total mortgage demand fell 6% compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's...
Savvy Advisors has added two new principal wealth managers to its growing network of advisors attracted by its technology platform. Erich Yost, CFA, was previously a portfolio manager as part of a team managing $2.5 billion of assets for ultra-high-net-worth clients at Veritable and has 12 years of experience in...
Millions of people are facing retirement without enough income to live comfortably and may struggle to address the issue. A proprietary model that looks at retirement readiness has been created by Vanguard for its inaugural retirement readiness report, in which it calculates rates of what it calls ‘sustainable replacement income’,...
A sell-off in global bond markets gathered pace, driving yields to the highest level in more than a decade as traders brace for an extended period of tight monetary policy. The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries hit 5% for the first time since 2007 on Wednesday, while the German 10-year...
The federal judge who ruled that Ripple Labs Inc.’s cryptocurrency doesn’t constitute a security when sold to the general public denied the Securities and Exchange Commission’s request to appeal the determination before trial. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres on Tuesday ruled against the regulator in a case it filed against...
At the University of Tampa, Anthony Viggiano and three classmates faced off against another school in the 2018 “Ethics Invitational.” Hosted by the CFA Institute’s local branch, the competition tested which team could best tackle dilemmas they’d face as financial professionals. Viggiano’s team won and walked off with a $1,000 prize. A few...
A smaller share of wealthy households donated money to charitable causes in 2022 amid rising economic uncertainty, according to a new report from Bank of America Corp. About 85% of affluent U.S. households made charitable contributions in 2022, down from 88% in 2020, according to a biennial study by Bank...
