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Tesla Inc. TSLA, -6.65% Chief Executive Elon Musk plans deep cuts at Twitter Inc. TWTR, +1.18% should he end up with the embattled company, according to a report in The Washington Post on Thursday. The world’s richest man has informed prospective investors in his deal to acquire Twitter that he intends to slash 75% of […]
Revlon Inc. REV, -5.34% said late Thursday a New York Stock Exchange committee rejected its appeal to not delist its stock and expects to be delisted “in the hear future.” Back in August, Revlon shares tumbled when a bankruptcy judge denied minority shareholders a special committee to represent them. Revlon shares fell 5.3% to close […]
The world’s deepest and most liquid fixed-income market is in big, big trouble. For months, traders, academics, and other analysts have fretted that the $23.7 trillion Treasurys market might be the source of the next financial crisis. Then last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged concerns about a potential breakdown in the trading of […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +0.71% GOOG, +0.60% Google, claiming it collected biometric data for millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent. “For more than a decade, Texas has prohibited companies from capturing Texans’ biometric data – including the unique characteristics of an individual’s face and voice – without […]
Leafly Inc. LFLY, +1.74% is eliminating about a fifth of its jobs as it moves to generate cost savings. The cannabis marketplace said it’s cutting 56 positions, or 21% of its workforce, through layoffs and attrition. Leafly will book a $500,000 charge in the fourth quarter for expenses related to the move. The company said […]
Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. DKS, +0.77% hiked up 2.4% in premarket trading Thursday, after Oppenheimer analyst Brian Nagel turned bullish on the sporting goods and athleisure apparel retailer, saying he believes the company will keep capitalizing on “positive, post-pandemic shifts in consumer demand.” Nagel raised his rating to outperform, after being at perform […]
Tractor Supply Co. TSCO, -3.21% reported Thursday third-quarter profit that topped expectations but sales came up a bit shy, and raised its full-year outlook. The rural lifestyle retailer said net income rose to $234.1 million, or $2.10 a share, from $224.4 million, or $1.95 a share, in the year-ago period. The FactSet consensus for earnings […]
A key deal maker behind Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus is leaving the company after more than a decade. “After almost 12 incredibly fulfilling years at Meta/Facebook, I have decided to leave the company,” Amin Zoufonoun said in a Facebook post. The departure comes amid a tech M&A crackdown by U.S. and European […]
Alcoa Corp.’s stock AA, -5.26% slid 7% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the bauxite, alumina and aluminum products company reported a third-quarter loss of $746 million, after reporting a $337 million profit in the same period a year earlier. Alcoa recorded a net loss of $4.17 per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to […]
Oil futures climbed on Wednesday, with U.S. prices up by more than 3%. The oil market rebounded as the “tug-of-war between concerns over supply and fears over demand continue the back-and-forth” price action that has been a feature of the past few weeks, said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK. The market […]
