Tag: Marketwatch

Jul 09
Redfin seeing San Francisco Bay Area housing market slowing fastest in the U.S.

Published: July 8, 2022 at 8:14 a.m. ET Redfin Corp. said Friday that it is seeing the northern California housing market, including the San Francisco Bay Area, cooling faster than any other U.S. market, as mortgage rates remain high and as the stock market has dropped. The San Jose housing market is slowing the fastest, […]

Jul 09
Howmet Aerospace stock rallies after Benchmark upgrades, as long Ukraine war could boost titanium business

Shares of Howmet Aerospace Inc. HWM, +0.58% rose 1.7% in premarket trading Friday, after Benchmark analyst Josh Sullivan turned bullish on the aerospace and titanium company, citing a supply chain recovery and market share gains as companies divest their titanium operations in Russia. Sullivan raised his rating to buy, after being at neutral for at […]

Jul 09
Biden says Abe’s vision will endure, offers deepest condolences

Victor Reklaitis is MarketWatch’s Money & Politics reporter and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining MarketWatch, he served as an assistant editor and reporter at Investor’s Business Daily. Before IBD, he worked for several newspapers in Virginia. Follow Victor on Twitter at: @vicrek. Source: Marketwatch

Jul 09
Vita Coco stock soars after upgrade on expectations for decline in ocean freight costs

Vita Coco Co. COCO, +11.41% stock soared 16% in Friday trading after the coconut water company was upgraded to buy from neutral at Bank of America. Analysts raised their price objective to $12 from $10. BofA says the ocean freight market is showing signs of stabilizing, which could lead to cost declines for Vita Coco. […]

Jul 09
Baker Hughes reports a 5th straight weekly rise in the number of active U.S. oil-drilling rigs

Baker Hughes BKR, on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil was up by 2 to 597 this week. That follows increases in each of the last four weeks. The total active U.S. rig count, which includes those drilling for natural gas, also climbed by 2 to 752, according to […]

Jul 09
White House criticizes Texas Gov. Abbott’s order directing National Guard to deport undocumented immigrants

Published: July 8, 2022 at 1:39 p.m. ET White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday criticized Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that directs the National Guard to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants. Immigration enforcement is a federal authority and states should not be “meddling in it,” she told reporters during a briefing. […]

Jul 09
Robust U.S. jobs data open door to outside risk of full-percentage-point Fed rate hike this month

Last Updated: July 8, 2022 at 2:24 p.m. ET First Published: July 8, 2022 at 2:23 p.m. ET Shoppers at a grocery store in Washington, D.C., last month. Stefani Reynolds/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Following an unexpectedly robust jobs report that had many dismissing fears of a U.S. recession, a line of thinking re-emerged in some parts […]

Jul 09
Apple stock heads for first back-to-back closes above the 50-DMA in 3 months

Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.47% rose 0.8% in afternoon trading Friday, putting them on track to close above the widely followed 50-day moving average (DMA) for second straight session. The last time the technology behemoth’s stock closed in back-to-back sessions above that key technical level, which many chart watchers view as a shorter-term trend […]

Jul 09
Stocks close mostly lower Friday, but major indexes sweep to weekly gains

Stocks end mostly lower Friday after a strong June jobs report, while still booking solid gains in the first full trading week of July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.15% shed about 45 points, or 0.1%, ending near 31,339. The S&P 500 index SXP, -2.94% fell 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.12% […]

Jul 09
Tesla stock heads higher in after hours after Musk ends Twitter deal

Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, +2.54% rose 1.3% in the extended session Friday after news that company chief executive Elon Musk wants to abandon his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter Inc. TWTR, -5.10%, a deal that would be fueled in part by Tesla shares owned by Musk. Tesla’s stock ended the regular trading day […]