Category: Market News
UBS on Thursday launched coverage of seven banks, including five with buy ratings and two with hold ratings, as the group is poised to benefit from higher interest rates. Analyst Erika Najarian said she expects 21% upside in these names, despite strong stock performances thus far in 2022. UBS assigned a buy rating and a […]
Energy drink company Monster Beverage Corp. MNST, +0.59% announced Thursday that it is entering the alcoholic beverage business through an agreement to buy craft beer and hard seltzer company CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective LLC for $330 million in cash. The deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, will bring the […]
Shares of Halliburton Co. HAL, +0.73% rallied 1.7% toward a near three-year high in premarket trading Thursday, after J.P. Morgan analyst Arun Jayaram turned bullish on the oil services company, given its position as a leader in scale, flexibility and technology and its “best-in-class” returns generated in the last cycle. Jayaram raised his rating to […]
Shares of Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL, -1.50% rallied 2.1% in premarket trading Thursday, after the air carrier reported fourth-quarter adjusted profit and revenue that beat expectations, as December revenue has recovered to nearly 80% of 2019 levels. The net loss was $408 million, or 64 cents a share, compared with net income of $1.1 […]
Nucor Corp. NUE, +3.50% said Wednesday it has selected Mason County, West Virginia as the site of its new sheet mill, which the steel maker said will have about 800 full-time employees. West Virginia won out over other locations evaluated by the company in Pennsylvania and Ohio. As previously announced in September, the company said […]
An analysis of U-Haul rental rates suggests the migration trends to Southeast cities, Texas and Florida has continued in January and is broad based, according to analyst Rafe Jadrosich at BofA Securities. Jadrosich said he believes higher U-Haul rental rates for one-way routes compared with different routes with the same mileage, such as reverse moves, […]
The House panel probing the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, reports said. The California Republican is a top ally of former President Donald Trump. Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democratic chairman of the panel, requested that McCarthy provide information to the panel regarding […]
Top White House economic adviser Brian Deese on Wednesday addressed new data that showed inflation at a nearly 40-year high, telling reporters that increasing prices are a “global phenomenon” that’s connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. Deese, director of the National Economic Council, said the unique strength of the U.S. economic recovery makes the nation “well-positioned […]
Shares of KB Home KB, +2.79% rose more than 3% in the extended session Wednesday after the home builder reported fourth-quarter profit above expectations and sales that matched forecasts, saying it had to meet “healthy demand” for housing amid “extremely challenging” operating conditions. KB Home said it earned $174 million, or $1.91 a share, in […]
Oil prices climbed Wednesday to their highest settlement in about two months after the Energy Information Administration reported a weekly decline of 4.6 million barrels in U.S. crude inventories to 413.3 million barrels – the lowest since 2018. A larger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude-oil supplies coupled with a large draw at the Cushing, Okla., delivery […]
