Tag: Marketwatch

Mar 31
Macy’s to add 2,800 jobs with $584 million North Carolina fulfillment center

Macy’s Inc. M, -3.75% said Thursday that it will open a fulfillment center in China Grove, N.C. in 2024 that will employ 2,800 workers. The facility, which will span 1.4 million square feet and cost $584 million, will account for 30% of the department store retailer’s digital supply chain capacity. Macy’s is also expanding its […]

Mar 31
U.S. targets Russian tech sector in latest round of sanctions over Ukraine invasion

The U.S. is targeting Russia’s technology sector in the latest round of sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Thursday it is targeting operators in the sector “to prevent it from evading unprecedented multilateral sanctions and procure critical western technology.” Treasury is designating 21 […]

Mar 31
Vertex shares promising clinical data for its experimental non-opioid pain treatment

Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. VRTX, -0.57% gained 1.4% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company announced promising data for an acute-pain treatment that is an alternative to opioids. Vertex said its NaV1.8 inhibitor was well-tolerated and efficacious in two proof-of-concept Phase 2 clinical trials when given to participants who had undergone abdominoplasty surgery […]

Mar 31
Bausch & Lomb files for IPO with plans to list on NYSE under ticker ‘BLCO’

Bausch Health Cos. Inc. BHC, -0.56% filed for an initial public offering of its Bausch & Lomb Corp. unit on Thursday, with plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker “BLCO.” The shares will also be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the same ticker. Parent Bausch Health is based […]

Mar 31
Brewin Dolphin shares jump 61% on $2.1 billion RBC buyout deal

Brewin Dolphin BRW, +60.38% shares jumped 61% to 511 pence after the Royal Bank of Canada RY, -0.22% agreed to buy the U.K. firm for £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion), or 515 pence per share, in cash. RBC said the deal will give it a number-three position in the U.K. and Ireland for its wealth management […]

Mar 31
U.S. to give Ukraine $500 million in aid, White House says after presidents’ call

The U.S. will give the Ukrainian government $500 million in “direct budgetary aid,” the White House said, following a call between Presidents Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. During their call, Zelensky updated Biden on the status of Ukraine’s negotiations with Russia, according to the White House. The two leaders spoke for about an […]

Mar 31
Tilray shares up 2.4% in higher-than-average volume amid hopes for MORE Act, although analysts are skeptical it will pass

Shares of Canadian cannabis company Tilray Inc. TLRY, -2.16% were up 2.4% Wednesday in higher-than-average volume, on speculation surrounding an expected House vote this week on a bill that could decriminalize cannabis. The bill, called the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, or MORE Act, would remove cannabis from the Schedule I classification that has […]

Mar 31
Oil futures settle higher with some traders skeptical of progress in Russia-Ukraine talks

Oil futures settled higher on Wednesday as news reports said Russia shelled areas of Ukraine where Moscow had promised just a day earlier that it would scale back military operations. “Whether peace talks are real or not, the truth is that we have a global market that is undersupplied regardless,” said Phil Flynn, senior market […]

Mar 31
U.S. stocks end lower after dampened hopes for breakthrough in Russia-Ukraine peace talks

All three major U.S. stock benchmarks closed lower Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 snapping four-day winning streaks, after Russia indicated no breakthrough in peace talks with Ukraine and oil prices climbed. The Dow DJIA, -0.19% fell 0.2%, the S&P 500 SPX, -0.63% slid 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.21% […]

Mar 30
Federal Reserve’s projected rate hikes ‘won’t sufficiently tame’ inflation, Credit Suisse says

U.S. inflation, already at a 40-year high, is likely to remain hot even after the Federal Reserve completes all 10 to 11 of its projected quarter-point rate hikes through the end of next year, according to Credit Suisse research analysts. In a note on Tuesday, Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. equity strategist and head of quantitative […]