Category: Market News

Apr 18
Didi Global tumbles 17% after earnings, plans for shareholder meeting to discuss U.S. de-listing

Shares of Didi Global DIDI, -3.15% dropped 17% in premarket trading on Monday, after the China ride-share group over the weekend announced a 12% drop in fourth-quarter revenue from a year earlier and plans to vote on a delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which is facing a cybersecurity probe in Japan, […]

Apr 17
Citigroup profit falls 46% but stock rises after it beats analyst targets

Citigroup Inc. C, +1.56% shares rose 1.4% on Thursday after the bank said its first-quarter profit fell 46% to $4.3 billion, or $2.02 per share from $7.9 billion, or $3.62 per diluted share in the year-ago quarter. Revenue fell to $19.2 billion from $19.7 billion, as higher net interest income was more than offset by […]

Apr 17
JD.com sends more than 100 autonomous vehicles to Shanghai to help during lockdown

JD.com Inc. JD, -2.95% is sending more than 100 autonomous vehicles to Shanghai to help the city, which is under a strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak, with customer order deliveries, mobile cabin hospitals, and more. About 50 indoor delivery robots are being sent to help with the effort as well. “With AI technology […]

Apr 16
Protagonist’s stock falls 27% after updating investors about experimental blood disorder drug

Shares of Protagonist Therapeutics Inc. PTGX, -21.83% tumbled 27.8% in premarket trading on Thursday, the day after the company disclosed in a securities filing that it expects data from a Phase 2 clinical trial for its ulcerative colitis treatment candidate in the second quarter. It also told investors that the Food and Drug Administration is […]

Apr 16
Goldman stock rises enough after earnings to keep Dow futures positive

Shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, -0.10% rallied 1.7% in premarket trading Thursday, which would be enough to keep futures YM00, -0.27% for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.33% in positive territory, in the wake of bank and broker’s first-quarter earnings report. The stock’s implied price gain would add about 36 points to […]

Apr 16
Stocks open slightly higher as investors weigh bank earnings

Stocks were trading with small gains after the opening bell Thursday in the final session of a holiday-shortened week, as investors weighed a raft of earnings from big Wall Street banks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.33% rose 181 points, or 0.5%, while the S&P 500 SPX, -1.21% was up 0.2%. The Nasdaq Composite […]

Apr 16
Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk launches bid for Twitter as investors question how he would manage 3 companies

Tesla Inc. shares TSLA, -3.66% slid 2.7% Thursday, after its Chief Executive Elon Musk launched an unsolicited bid for Twitter Inc. TWTR, -1.68%, raising concerns he may end up running three companies. Musk is offering $54.20 per each Twitter share he does not already own, valuing the social media platform at more than $43 billion. […]

Apr 16
Steinway Musical Instruments announces IPO with plans to list on NYSE under ticker ‘STWY’

An earlier version of this report had incorrect sales numbers for 2021 and 2020. It has been corrected. Steinway Musical Instruments Holdings Inc., a company created in 1853 to make pianos, launched its initial public offering on Thursday with plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker ‘STWY.” “We are a […]

Apr 16
U.S. business inventories jump 1.5% in February

Business inventories rose 1.5% in February as companies tried to stock up low levels of products on hand. Sales in the month increased 1%, the government said Thursday. The inventory-to-sales ratio rose to 1.26 form 1.25. The ratio reflects how long it would take a company to sell all the goods sitting on warehouse shelves. […]

Apr 16
More than 150,000 GE-brand refrigerators are being recalled for a fall hazard

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said about 155,000 GE-brand French-door refrigerators with bottom freezers are being recalled, as the freezer handle can detach, posing a fall hazard. GE Appliances, a company of Louisville-based Haier, said the recall involves six models of the “fingerprint-resistant stainless steel” refrigerators sold from February 2020 through January 2022 for […]