Tag: Marketwatch

Jul 21
Elevance Health stock drops to lead S&P 500 losers as earnings ‘beat and raise’ missed high expectations

Shares of Elevance Health Inc. ELV, -7.62%, previously known as Anthem Inc, tumbled 8.7% in afternoon trading Wednesday, enough to pace the S&P 500’s SPX, +0.59% decliners, as investors jeered the health insurance company’s second-quarter results. The stock was on track to suffer the biggest one-day selloff since March 2020. The company reported earlier second-quarter […]

Jul 21
U.S. stocks end higher Wednesday, with the Nasdaq leading indexes to back-to-back gains

Stocks finished higher on Wednesday, adding to sharp gains booked a day before, with a corporate earnings from a string of major technology companies in focus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.15% added about 51 points, or 0.2%, ending near 31,878. The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.59% rose 0.6%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index […]

Jul 21
Carnival to sell $1 billion in stock, shares fall

Published: July 20, 2022 at 4:29 p.m. ET Shares in Carnival Corp. dropped more than 7% in after-hours trading Wednesday following an announcement that the cruise operator intends to sell at least $1 billion in fresh stock. The company announced that it intends to sell $1 billion in new shares, but underwriter Goldman Sachs [s:gs] […]

Jul 21
Alcoa stock jumps 6% after Q2 beats views

Alcoa Corp. AA, +0.36% stock rallied more than 6% in the extended session Wednesday after the aluminum and alumina producer reported second-quarter earnings above Wall Street expectations and said it had a “strong” first half of the year. Alcoa said it earned $549 million, or $2.95 a share, in the quarter, compared with $309 million, […]

Jul 21
White House says Biden was referring to past removal of skin cancer in speech

The White House on Wednesday said President Joe Biden was referring to treatment for skin cancer he had before taking office, when he told an audience in Massachusetts that he has cancer. In remarks during a climate speech, Biden recounted a childhood experience with oil emissions and said, “that’s why I and so damn many […]

Jul 20
Tesla sold 75% of bitcoin holdings in second quarter, as crypto prices crashed

Tesla TSLA, +0.80% disposed of 75% of its bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.09% holdings in the second quarter, as the crypto traded 65% lower from its record high in November. The company sold the coins for $936 million, according to the electric car marker’s earnings report released Wednesday. Tesla said it invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin early […]

Jul 20
Oil prices end lower after a 3-session climb; natural gas rallies

Oil futures ended with a loss on Wednesday, pulling back after posting gains in each of the last three trading sessions. The Energy Information Administration on Wednesday reported a 400,000-barrel weekly fall in U.S. crude supplies, even as 5 million barrels of oil supplies were released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Still, with crude oil […]

Jul 20
U.S. stocks open slightly lower as investors await more earnings reports

U.S. stocks opened slightly lower on Wednesday following their strongest advance in a month as investors awaited more quarterly earnings reports. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.36% was off 5 points, or 0.1%, at 3,931. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.13% fell 50 points, or 0.2%, to 31,779. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.30% lost 3 […]

Jul 20
EIA reports a weekly decline in U.S. crude supplies

The Energy Information Administration on Wednesday reported that U.S. crude inventories fell by 400,000 barrels for the week ended July 15. On average, analysts expected a decline of 200,000 barrels, according to a poll conducted by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday reported a 1.9 million-barrel increase, according to sources. The […]

Jul 20
Bath & Body Works stock drops after profit and sales warning

Bath & Body Works Inc. BBWI, -2.12% shares dropped 8.7% in Wednesday premarket trading after the retailer issued a downward revision of its second-quarter and full-year guidance. Bath & Body Works, known for its scented lotions and candles, now expects second-quarter sales to be down 6% to 7% versus previous guidance for a low-single-digit percent […]