The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Thursday that domestic natural-gas supplies rose by 15 billion cubic feet for the week ended July 22. That compared to an average forecast for an increase of 25 billion cubic feet from analysts polled by S&P Global Commodity Insights. Total working gas stocks in storage stand at 2.416 […]
Wingstop Inc. WING, +24.67% shares jumped nearly 13% in Thursday premarket trading after it reported second-quarter profit that beat the Street and, unlike many companies lately, maintained its guidance for the year. The chicken wing chain posted net income of $13.3 million, or 44 cents per share, up from $11.3 million, or 38 cents per […]
Shares of Pfizer Inc. PFE, -0.67% gained 0.3% in premarket trading Thursday, after the pharmaceutical giant reported big second-quarter profit and revenue beats, driven primarily by “strong contributions” from its COVID drugs Comirnaty and Paxlovid. Net income rose to $9.91 billion, or $1.73 a share, from $5.56 billion, or 98 cents a share, in the […]
Global markets advanced but didn’t price in the euphoric reaction to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference that Wall Street did. In Asia, the Nikkei 225 NIK, +0.36% rose 0.4% and the Kospi Composite added 0.8%, while the Hang Seng HSI, -0.23% slipped 0.1% in late trade after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority matched […]
Oil futures climbed on Wednesday, with U.S. prices marking their highest settlement in a week. There’s “no other way to look at energy prices today and not have a bullish outlook,” said Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors. The Energy Information Administration reported much larger inventory draws across the board, he said, with […]
Shares of Cassava Sciences Inc. SAVA, -13.95% plunged 21.0% in trading on Wednesday after Reuters reported that the Justice Department is investigating whether the company manipulated clinical data for a still-investigational Alzheimer’s disease drug, citing people familiar with the matter. Cassava put out a news release in December that said a scientific journal did not […]
Bitcoin BTCUSD, +1.34% jumped 9% over the past 24 hours, along with stocks’ rally, as the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that he doesn’t think the United States is in a recession. The Fed on Wednesday raised a key U.S. interest rate by 75 basis points, the fourth hike this year, in an aggressive […]
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Wednesday, greeting the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike with a torrid advance that saw the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite clinch its biggest daily gain since April 2020. The Nasdaq Composite gained 469.85 points, or 4.1%, to 12,032.42. The S&P 500 gained 102.56 points, or 2.6%, To 4,023.61. The Dow Jones Industrial […]
After extensive negotiations, key Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on Wednesday said he has reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, on an Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. “Rather than risking more inflation with trillions in new spending, this bill will cut the inflation taxes Americans are […]
Fitness franchisor F45 Training Holdings Inc. FXLV, -61.54% saw its shares nosedive 61.5% in Wednesday trading after the company announced the departure of its chief executive and founder Adam Gilchrist; a 45% workforce reduction, equal to 110 layoffs; and a sharp reduction in the number of new franchises and studios expected in 2022. Ben Coates, […]