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Krispy Kreme’s stock drops on earnings miss
Doughnut maker warns its full-year 2024 profit is expected to fall short of analyst estimates but its effort to sell its products at McDonald’s is off to a successful start.November 7 - Business -
Palantir’s stock racks up new bearish call on its ‘unsustainable’ valuation
A Jefferies analyst thinks Palantir’s large base of retail-investor support “is a double-edged sword.”November 7 - Business -
U.S. economy’s secret weapon, productivity, rises sharply again
One of the biggest drivers of a strong U.S. economy, worker productivity, showed another healthy gain in the summer and early fall, in a good omen for the current expansion.November 7 - Business -
Yellen was no Hamilton: Why one JPMorgan strategist blames Treasury chief for Harris loss
Janet Yellen had a low media profile heading into Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss.November 7 - Business -
Jobless claims inch higher in latest week
Claims tick up 3,000 to 221,000 after three weeks of declinesNovember 7 - Business -
Warner Bros. Discovery posts upbeat Max subscriber growth, sending stock higher
The company also posted a profit for the third quarter, while analysts had been expecting a loss.November 7 - Business -
Wall Street believes stocks will keep rising on Trump’s win — but this could threaten the rally
Many on Wall Street expected Tuesday’s election would be the final obstacle standing in the way of a stock-market melt-up heading into the end of the year. But rising Treasury yields are ...November 7 - Business -
The Fed is draining liquidity from markets for longer than expected. Here’s why it’s making Wall Street nervous.
Wall Street is getting anxious about the plumbing in the financial markets as the Fed’s balance sheet shrinks.November 7 - Business -
U.S. stocks staged an epic rally after Trump won the election. What history says could happen before year-end.
Historically, stocks have tended to rise in the postelection period — and market analysts say they still have the potential to keep climbing through the rest of the year.November 7 - Business -
Former ‘Real Housewives’ star Dorinda Medley shows off her lavish Gilded Age property
Medley is opening the doors to her palatial Berkshires estate, which has been gloriously redesigned.November 7 - Business -
Costco shoppers stocked up on supplies as hurricanes, port strike hit. The trend hurt sales in October.
The warehouse retailer says demand was “negatively affected” by “abnormal consumer activity” tied to the September events.November 6 - Business -
Lyft shares soar 20% on results and autonomous-vehicle partnership
Lyft reported third-quarter sales that beat expectations while offering an upbeat demand forecast, after the ride-hailing platform earlier in the day announced an autonomous-vehicle partnership ...November 6 - Business -
Gilead’s third-quarter earnings beat by a wide margin, and biotech raises guidance
Gilead Sciences Inc.’s stock rose 2.7% in after-hours trading Wednesday, after the biotech blew past third-quarter earnings estimates and raised its guidance, boosted by demand for its HIV and ...November 6 - Business -
Qualcomm’s rosy forecast sends stock surging, and more buybacks may be on deck
Qualcomm is upping its buyback program by $15 billion after repurchasing more than $4 billion in stock last fiscal year.November 6 - Business -
Arm says it’s fueling many AI needs, but its stock shrugs off an earnings beat
The chip designer beat expectations for both its revenue segments.November 6 - Business -
Elf Beauty’s beat-and-raise quarter fuels 7% stock jump
Elf also gained market share and saw international sales nearly double.November 6 - Business -
Dow soars as these areas are ‘likely market winners’ of potential Republican sweep
Stocks surged Wednesday after Donald Trump won the U.S. election.November 6 - Business -
Dow transports finally break out. Here’s what the Dow theory says that means.
Dow transports and Dow industrials closed at records simultaneously for the first time in three years on Wednesday.November 6 - Business -
Bitcoin surged off Trump’s win – but these smaller cryptos could benefit even more
A weekly look at the most important news and moves in crypto, and what’s on the horizon in digital assets.November 6 - Business -
‘Trump trades’ move into overdrive as Dow, dollar and bond yields soar. What’s next for markets.
The question for investors is what happens once the postelection euphoria wears off.November 6 - Business -
Small-cap stocks are ripping higher after Trump’s win. What history tells us might happen next.
The Russell 2000 index jumped 5.5% on Wednesday after former President Donald Trump’s electoral win.November 6 - Business -
Older voters came out in droves — but they were just as split as the rest of the country
Older voters have always been influential and dependable voters and that was no different this election season.November 6 - Business -
30-year bond yield closes with biggest jump since 2022 after Trump wins
U.S. government debt aggressively sold off on Wednesday, pushing the 30-year yield up by the most in two years, as traders factored in the likely trade and deficit policies of a second Trump ...November 6 - Business -
Trump’s economic team: Who could run Treasury, the Fed and energy in his second term
Even before Donald Trump was called the winner of Tuesday’s election, names had been circulating about who the Republican nominee would appoint to key posts in his second term. Now that he’s won, ...November 6 - Business -
Education stocks rally, with Trump seen as benefiting for-profit colleges
Shares of private-education companies rallied Wednesday, on expectations some of the regulatory pressure on the group will be eased once newly elected President Trump begins his term in January.November 6 - Business -
North Dakota voters reject bid to end property taxes, which have soared nationwide since 2019
Measure 4 would have cost the state an estimated $3.15 billion over two years.November 6 - Business -
How Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban and other business leaders congratulated Trump
“Let that sink in,” Elon Musk said.November 6 - Business -
Mortgage rates jump after Trump defeats Harris
Mortgage rates rose Wednesday morning as the financial markets reacted to Republican nominee Donald Trump winning the presidential election.November 6 - Business -
High inflation — the killer of governments — doomed Harris and put Trump back in power
High inflation is often a destroyer of political parties in power, and it claimed another victim in Vice President Kamala Harris.November 6 - Business -
Here’s what can stall Trump’s tax and tariff plans
Surging 10-year Treasury yields could temper Trump administration plans that risk growing the large U.S. deficit.November 6 - Business -
Trump’s victory means fewer Fed rate cuts
“Trump is a president who likes to spend, he was a real-estate developer who loves to borrow. I don’t think he’s shaken either of those ideals,” notes one analyst.November 6 - Business -
Prison stocks jump on expectations of more detentions
Shares of GEO Group and CoreCivic surged on Wednesday in expectation that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will detain more immigrants in facilities run by the companies.November 6 - Business -
These stocks could benefit from Trump’s election victory, B. Riley says
Trump’s victory could benefit a host of stocks from sectors such as coal mining, fintech, cryptocurrency and for-profit education, says B. Riley Securities.November 6 - Business -
Bank stocks soar as Trump victory expected to lead to looser regulatory backdrop
Banks have been pushing all year to loosen capital requirements and are also expected to benefit from potential tax cuts.November 6 - Business -
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk nudges higher profit forecast
Novo Nordisk on Wednesday nudged higher its outlook for the year as the drugmaker registered another quarter of strong sales of its weight-loss drugs.November 6 - Business -
CVS beats revenue views, but profit missed due to a $1.1 billion reserve charge
CVS’s stock surges after revenue rose well above expectations, while profit missed because of a large charge premium deficiency reserves charge.November 6 - Business -
Mortgage rates inch up to a 3-month high ahead of Fed meeting
Mortgage applications fell 10.8% in the last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.November 6 - Business -
‘Transformers’ actor Josh Duhamel wants to learn to live off the land at his Minnesota doomsday prepper home
Duhamel is building a self-sustaining “paradise” where he’s prepared to ride out what ever disaster may occur in the near future.November 6 - Business -
The French crypto whale looks to have made $47 million from his Trump bets
The French national who ran four interrelated accounts on the crypto betting site Polymarket has profited handsomely from his bets on former President Donald Trump.November 6 - Business -
Trump trades take off as voting results tilt in former president’s favor
Traders across an array of asset classes in financial markets were positioning in a way that made it clear they had come to the same assumption long before Tuesday evening’s election results are ...November 6 - Business