(Follow along with our full coverage of Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting here. Warren Buffett begins talking at 9 a.m. ET.)Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter results on Saturday that showed a steep drop in operating earnings from the year-earlier period. The conglomerate, which owns a vast array of insurance,...
Venmo is more than just a way to split dinner bills. It has become a cultural phenomenon. Known for blending digital payments with social interaction, Venmo introduced a new way to think about money. It made peer-to-peer payments simple, quick, and even fun.In 2025, Venmo remains one of the...
Eaton , a maker of power management solutions for AI data centers and other commercial markets, delivered a solid quarter on Friday that raised more questions for us than it answered. Earnings per share for the first quarter ended in March rose more than 33% from the year-ago period...
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: It's been a great week for the U.S. stock market. The S & P 500 is up 1.6% Friday,...
Although one quarter isn't enough to squash all concerns, the good results were a step in the right direction.
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Duolingo — Shares soared more than 18% after the language learning app guided toward a better-than-expected revenue forecast. Duolingo estimates second-quarter revenue will come in between $239 million and $242 million, while analysts polled by LSEG expected $234 million. Full-year...
Apple CEO Tim Cook, center, watches during the inauguration ceremonies for President Donald Trump, right, and Vice President JD Vance, left, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.Shawn Thew | Afp | Getty ImagesA tale of two different technology companies is playing out this...
Block shares were on track for their second-worst day Friday, plunging more than 20% as investors digested a brutal quarterly report and a wave of analyst downgrades centered on one issue: Cash App.The first-quarter earnings miss rattled Wall Street, prompting multiple firms — including Wells Fargo, Seaport, BMO, and...
Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners.Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the...
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Block — The financial technology stock plunged nearly 22% following weak first-quarter revenue. Block said it brought in $5.77 billion, while analysts surveyed by LSEG had projected $6.20 billion. Atlassian – Shares sank 12% after the software company issued weak guidance....
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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.
Macy's Herald Square store in New York is shown on Aug. 21, 2023.View Press | Corbis News | Getty ImagesMacy's on Thursday topped Wall Street's quarterly expectations, as inventory and margin improvement helped offset an 7% year-over-year decline in sales.Here's what the retailer reported for the fiscal third quarter...
Pedestrians walk past a Burberry Group Plc store, left, in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong, China.Xaume Olleros | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — Burberry shares plunged 9% on Thursday after the British luxury fashion retailer warned that full-year operating profit will come in at the low...
Members of a recently formed union of Starbucks workers hold a rally to celebrate the first anniversary of their founding, December 9, 2022 in New York City.Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis News | Getty ImagesStarbucks workers in New York City have filed 14 more complaints alleging that the coffee giant...
Exterior view of the Siemens Forum, part of the Siemens Headquarters, in Munich, Germany.Getty ImagesSiemens on Thursday posted a 10% rise in revenue growth for its fiscal fourth quarter to a record high of 21.4 billion euros ($23.2 billion), beating forecasts, but expects a slowdown in 2024.The German industrial...
Walmart store with gardening products for sale in Atchison, Kansas.Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesWalmart will report quarterly earnings Thursday as the discounter generally outperforms its rivals.Here's what Wall Street expects from the retailer, according to consensus estimates from LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:Earnings per share: $1.52...
CEO pay at many of the biggest companies in the U.S. has snowballed over the past decade to levels hundreds or even thousands of times higher than median salaries — and in a lot of cases, the higher compensation isn’t reflected in financial performance. That applies to the financial services...
Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Cisco Systems – Shares tumbled nearly 11% after the digital communications company offered worse-than-expected guidance for the current quarter and full year. That pulled attention away from a strong report for the fiscal first quarter, with Cisco beating the consensus...
