Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Palantir, Moderna, Ulta Beauty, Alibaba and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Global pharma stocks — Shares of several vaccine makers declined after President-elect Donald Trump selected prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary on Thursday. Shares of...

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Alibaba, Applied Materials, Ulta Beauty and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Applied Materials — Shares tumbled more than 8% after the semiconductor equipment manufacturer offered weak revenue guidance for the current quarter. Applied Materials said it forecasts $7.15 billion in the...

Ron Baron sees Tesla worth $5 trillion in 10 years, says Musk eyeing $30 trillion value one day

Billionaire investor Ron Baron, a longtime Tesla bull and shareholder, said he believes the electric vehicle company could hit a $5 trillion market capitalization in a decade, and that CEO Elon Musk has an even higher number in mind longer term. “Tesla, I think,...

China retail sales beat forecasts in October while real estate slump worsens

Pictured here is a Shanghai development under construction on Nov. 4, 2024.Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China on Friday reported strong growth in retail sales and a decline in real estate investment in October, signaling that the country’s...

Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Domino’s Pizza, Ulta, Applied Materials, Palantir and more

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Domino’s Pizza , Ulta Beauty — Shares surged about 8% after Berkshire Hathaway announced a new stake in the pizza chain in a regulatory filing. The Warren Buffett-led firm bought more than 1.2...

Powell says the Fed doesn’t need to be ‘in a hurry’ to reduce interest rates

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that strong U.S. economic growth will allow policymakers to take their time in deciding how far and how fast to lower interest rates.”The economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to lower...

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tapestry, Capri, Disney and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Disney — The media stock popped 6% on stronger-than-expected earnings and guidance, aided by growth in its streaming business. The company said it expects high-single-digit adjusted earnings growth in fiscal...

Watch Fed Chair Powell speak live to business leaders in the Dallas area

[The stream is slated to start at 3 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.]Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Thursday to business leaders in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on monetary policy. Powell is delivering a speech...

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Disney, Cisco, ASML, Tapestry and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Disney — Shares popped more than 9% after the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ estimates . For the period, Disney earned $1.14 per share, after adjustments, on revenue of...

Gary Gensler says he was ‘proud to serve’ as SEC chair, defends his approach to crypto regulation

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler testifies before a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27, 2023.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersSecurities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler...