Category: Market News

Jul 17
Vertical Aerospace says American Air has confirmed delivery slots for first 50 VX4 zero-emissions aircraft

Published: July 15, 2022 at 6:13 a.m. ET Shares of Vertical Aerospace Ltd. , a company specializing in zero-emissions aviation, said Friday that American Airlines has confirmed delivery slots for the first 50 VX4 aircraft of an initial pre-order of up to 250 aircraft, with an option for up to 100 more. “The commitment to […]

Jul 17
Wells Fargo revenue falls short, shares drop

Published: July 15, 2022 at 7:03 a.m. ET Wells Fargo & Co. shares fell 3.5% in premarket trades Friday after it said its second-quarter net income declined to $3.12 billion, or 74 cents a share, from $6.04 billion, or $1.38 a share in the year-ago quarter. Excluding an impairment of 8 cents a share for […]

Jul 17
Harsco shares slide 5% premarket after company issues profit warning due to ‘unprecedented’ inflation

Harsco Corp. stock HSC, -15.34% fell 5% in premarket trade Friday, after the environmental and waste management company issued a profit warning for the second quarter and full-year amid ‘unprecedented inflation.’ The Camp Hill, Pa.-based company is expecting a second-quarter operating loss from continuing operations of $95 million to $97 million, including a non-cash goodwill […]

Jul 17
Boeing stock gains as ‘slow drip internal water torture’ is nearing an end, analyst says

Published: July 15, 2022 at 7:49 a.m. ET Shares of Boeing Co. rose 0.9% toward a two-month high in premarket trading Friday, after Benchmark analyst Josh Sullivan cut his price target on the aerospace and defense giant but said the “slow drip internal water torture” investors have endured for years is nearing an end. Sullivan […]

Jul 16
Investors are obsessed with size of Fed’s next rate hike. Here’s what they’re missing.

Market Snapshot Last Updated: July 16, 2022 at 3:26 p.m. ET First Published: July 16, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. ET Investors concerned about the direction of equity markets can `cut out a predefined amount of downside risk through options strategies,’ says Johan Grahn of Allianz Investment Management in Minneapolis. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Win McNamee/Getty […]

Jul 16
Citigroup shares rise after bank beats earnings target

Citigroup Inc. C, +13.23% shares rose 2.1% in premarket trades on Friday after the bank said its second-quarter earnings fell to $4.55 billion, or $2.19 a share, from $6.19 billion, or $2.85 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose to $19.64 billion from $17.75 billion. Analysts expected Citigroup to report net income of $1.68 […]

Jul 16
Solar stocks hit hard by Sen. Manchin opposing climate spending

Shares of companies in the solar power business suffered a broad drubbing in premarket trading Friday, after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he would oppose any budget reconciliation package that includes climate or energy provisions. Shares of SunRun Inc. RUN, -6.36% sank 6.8%, Enphase Energy Inc. ENPH, -1.02% dropped 4.1%, First Solar Inc. FSLR, -8.12% […]

Jul 16
U.S. stocks open sharply higher after stronger-than-expected retail sales report

U.S. stocks opened sharply higher Friday after a retail sales report showed consumer spending in June rose more than expected amid high inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.15% was up 1.5% soon after the opening bell, while the S&P 500 SPX, +1.92% rose 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.79% gained 1.2%, according […]

Jul 16
75 or 100 basis points? Lost in market debate over Fed’s next rate hike is ‘how long inflation stays at these levels’

Debate has been simmering over whether Federal Reserve policy makers will raise the fed-funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point later this month, as they did in June, or step up their inflation-fighting campaign with a full point hike —- something that hasn’t been seen in the past 40 years. Friday’s economic data, which […]

Jul 16
10x Genomics stock suffering record drop toward record low after revenue warnings prompts downgrade

Shares of 10x Genomics Inc. TGX, -4.32% plunged 22.3% in active morning trading Friday, putting them on track to suffer a record one-day drop to a record low Friday, after the biotechnology company’s revenue warning prompted BofA Securities analyst Derik de Bruin to turn bearish. Trading volume was 3.9 million shares, already about triple the […]