Category: Market News
U.S. stocks opened higher Monday, attempting to bounce after another week of losses for major indexes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.11% rose 266 points, or 0.8%, after logging an eight straight weekly fall on Friday, its longest streak of weekly declines since 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The S&P 500 SPX, […]
Shares of Bank of America Corp. BAC, -1.71% rose 1.5% in premarket trading Monday, after the moneycenter bank said it raised its U.S. minimum wage of $22 an hour, effective at the end of June. The increase is from $21 an hour in October 2021, and has now increased 47% from $15 an hour in […]
The daily average for new COVID-19 cases topped the 100,000 mark of the third straight day and hospitalizations keep rising, but deaths fell to a 10-month low. Meanwhile, advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that children aged 5 to 11 receive the COVID-19 booster shot from Pfizer Inc. PFE, +3.59% and […]
Shares of Deere & Co. DE, -14.07% fell 1.8% toward a three-month low in premarket trading Friday, even after the agriculture, construction and forestry equipment maker reported fiscal second-quarter profit and revenue that rose above expectations, as “strong demand” helped offset supply-chain pressures. Net income increased to $2.10 billion, or $6.81 a share, from $1.79 […]
Shares of Foghorn Therapeutics Inc. FHTX, +18.08% were down 23.7% in premarket trading on Friday, the day after the company said U.S. regulators had placed a partial clinical hold on a Phase 1 clinical trial assessing an experimental therapy for relapsed and/or refractory acute myelogenous leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration has asked for a […]
Shares of THG THG, +24.52% climbed 25% in London as a potential bidding war emerged for the U.K.-listed online retailer, known as the Hut Group. THG said late Thursday that it had rejected a proposal from a group of investment companies led by Belerion Capital and King Street Capital Management for 170 pence a share, […]
Frontdoor Inc. FTDR, +1.03% said Friday that Chief Executive Rex Tibbens will step down, effective June 1, after four years in the role. The home-service plan provider, which brands include American Home Shield, Landmark and OneGuard, said Chairman William Cobb will succeed Tibbens, who will remain at the company through June 30 in an advisory […]
Leafly Holdings Inc. LFLY, +0.31% shares rose 2.6% in premarket trades Friday after the company drew an outperform rating and a $12 price target as Cowen analysts Harrison Vivas and Vivien Azer initiated coverage of the online cannabis marketplace. Leafly currently counts 8% more paid retailers than its rival company Weedmaps, which is run by […]
Shares of Match Group Inc. MTCH, +2.20% surged 5.2% in premarket trading Friday, after the data apps company after Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, -1.29% GOOGL, -1.34% Google made “various concessions” regarding Match’s complaints. As a result, Match said it has withdrawn its request for a temporary restraining order, which it said last week that it would […]
Shares of Zymeworks Inc. ZYME, +2.92% rallied 1.5% in morning trading Friday, after the biopharmaceutical company said it rejected the “unsolicited, opportunistic, non-binding” $10.50-per-share buyout bid by activist investor All Blue Falcons FZE. The company said it determined that the bid by the UAE-based investment holding company “significantly undervalues” the company and its prospects, and […]