Ken James | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee scans an order in the shipping area at the Overstock.com distribution center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Tesla’s stock rose more than 3 percent during after-hours trading after a CNBC report that the Tesla board plans to…
U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday, with strong corporate earnings reports lifting major indexes as tariff tensions simmer. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 126.73 points, or 0.5%, to 25628.91. The S&P 500 gained 8.05 points, or 0.3%, to 2858.45, its second-highest close in history and just 0.5% away from its January record. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: CBS – CBS reported adjusted quarterly profit of $1.12 per share, beating consensus estimates by 1 cent a share. Revenue also beat forecasts, with the company on track for record full-year results. CEO Leslie Moonves did not address allegations of sexual misconduct against him during the…
U.S. stocks finished Friday’s trade pretty much where they started the session and the week as losses in consumer-discretionary and energy sectors offset a rise in staples and financials, ahead of an earnings season that is set to kick into high gear next week. Friday’s action was mostly colored by concerns wrought by President Donald…
U.S. stocks rose Tuesday following Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s Senate testimony, while investors also continued dissecting the latest round of corporate earnings results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 55.53 points, or 0.2%, to 25119.89. The S&P 500 rose 11.12 points, or 0.4%, to 2809.55, and the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite climbed 49.40 points, or…
U.S. stocks mixed Oil prices fall on supply concerns Banks report strong earnings The S&P 500 inched slightly lower Monday as shares of energy companies fell alongside a decline in oil prices and as investors looked ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings results. The broad stock-market index fell 2.88 points, or 0.1%, to…
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 13.49 points, or 0.5%, to 2,713.22. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 132.36 points, or 0.5%, to 24,174.82. The Nasdaq slid 65.01 points, or 0.9%, to 7,502.67. Smaller-company stocks bucked the broader market decline. The Russell 2000 index ticked up 5.33 points, or 0.3%, to 1,660.42.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced on Friday, with the Dow poised to end an eight-day losing streak, as a jump in oil prices lifted energy stocks, but losses in technology stocks kept the Nasdaq in check. U.S. crude CLcv1 rose 4.68 percent to $68.61 per barrel and…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top stock index fell on Monday as trade tensions between the United States and China kept the pressure on equity markets across Europe. FILE PHOTO: A worker shelters from the rain as he passes the London Stock Exchange in the City of London at lunchtime October 1, 2008. REUTERS/Toby Melville The…
Shares of gene-therapy companies sank in active trade Monday, after a STAT report that editing a cell’s genome with CRISPR/Cas9 technology might cause cancer. CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a gene-editing technique that uses the Cas9 enyzme to make precise changes to genes associated with specific diseases. The STAT report said…