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General view during the KKW Beauty Launches at ULTA Beauty on October 24, 2019 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple — Big Tech stocks struggled on Tuesday as the rotation out of recent winners continued

A woman holds her smartphone with the app of the electric scooter sharing provider Tier Mobility next to an e-scooter to use it. Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa (Photo by Hauke-Christian Dittrich/picture alliance via Getty Images) Hauke-Christian Dittrich | picture alliance via Getty Images LONDON — German electric scooter rental firm Tier announced Tuesday that it’s raised $250

Packages of “Impossible Burger” and “Beyond Meat” sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:  Beyond Meat — Shares of Beyond Meat tumbled more than 25% in extended trading after the alternative meat

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the State Department in Washington, U.S. June 23, 2015. Yuri Gripas | Reuters BEIJING — U.S.-China trade tensions are set for more predictability and calmer rhetoric after Joe Biden‘s presidential win — which likely means calmer rhetoric in a continued

A boy rides a bicycle along a flooded street due to the heavy rains caused by Hurricane Eta, now degraded to a tropical storm, in Puerto Barrios, Izabal 310 km north Guatemala City on November 5, 2020. Johan Ordonez | AFP | Getty Images Hurricane Eta has slowly churned through Central America this week, flooding

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: CVS Health (CVS) – CVS named Executive Vice President Karen Lynch as its next CEO, effective Feb. 1, replacing the retiring Larry Merlo. Separately, CVS reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its latest quarter, as prescription drug volumes rebounded. Shares rose 2% in

A man fills out paperwork while waiting for his number to be called at an unemployment event in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 15, 2020. Nick Oxford for The Washington Post | Getty Images Vicki Honeycutt lost her job in March, one of millions laid off in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. To make

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Roku — Streaming platform Roku jumped 11% after the company reported a surprise adjusted profit for its third quarter. The company posted 9 cents in earnings per share on $452 million in revenue. Analysts had projected a loss of 40 cents per share and $366 million

Volunteers hand out potatoes in Auburn, Washington on May 7, 2020. JASON REDMOND | AFP | Getty Images That’s a big jump from the prior month, when 19% of the unemployed were out of work for at least six months. The number of long-term unemployed swelled by 1.2 million people in a month, to 3.6

Sales associates at one of Alibaba-owned InTime’s store display products for sale during a livestream. InTime | Alibaba BEIJING – The fickle Chinese consumer has latched onto a set of new preferences for watching videos, a trend investors and media giants are tapping into. Late on Thursday, short-video and livestreaming app Kuaishou filed for an

This is a comparison of Thursday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policy-making meeting on Sept. 16. Text removed from the September statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.

Wells Fargo Securities’ Christopher Harvey won’t buy the post-election bounce. “You want to fade this rally,” the firm’s head of equity strategy told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. “It’s about stimulus. We now have — or what we believe we have — is [Joe] Biden as president and no longer a blue wave.” Harvey contends

JEFF KOWALSKY | AFP | Getty Images Many workers may be at risk of losing their jobs again as some areas are imposing or considering new shutdown orders to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. A judge in El Paso County, Texas, last week ordered all non-essential businesses like gyms and hair salons to close

BEIJING — Chinese mutual funds have been on a tear this year, a sign of changing investor behavior as the local capital markets mature. More than 1,100 new funds have launched this year, for a scale of issuance that’s topped 2.5 trillion yuan ($373.1 billion) as of Friday, the last trading day of October, according

Traders wait for the Wayfair IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange October 2, 2014. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Alibaba — Shares dropped more than 5% after Ant Group’s record-setting initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong was suspended. Alibaba owns roughly

Fundstrat Global Advisors Tom Lee is calling for stocks to rally into year-end. It’s not dependent on any single election outcome. Rather, it takes into account three widely-talked about scenarios. Lee’s base case: Joe Biden wins with a blue wave due to his strength in the polls and betting markets. “That rally is roughly 10%,”

Colorox brand toilet bowl cleaner sits on display at a supermarket in Princeton, Ill. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: SolarEdge Technologies – Shares of the solar-equipment maker jumped more than 4% ahead of the company’s third-quarter results, which will be released after the bell. Research

SHANGHAI — Chinese fintech giant Lufax is laying the groundwork for international expansion over the next five years, following a cash injection from its U.S. IPO, the company’s chief executive told CNBC. Lufax started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday raising around $2.36 billion. The stock fell as much as 14.3% on

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Erin Scott | Bloomberg via Getty Images The Federal Reserve has lowered the barriers on its lending program for smaller businesses as part of an effort to broaden the appeal of the sparsely used facility. In another pair

Joe Biden, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, right, and President Donald Trump during the presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 22, 2020. Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, his Democratic opponent in next week’s election, have broadly diverging views on issues that would impact the personal finances

Brenan Hefner, co-founder and chief operating officer of Analyst Hub, and his family outside of their former home in Pelham, NY. Source: Brian Hefner Like many before him, Brenan Hefner arrived in New York 20 years ago in search of a career on Wall Street. His journey will sound familiar to those drawn to the

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Twitter – Shares dropped more than 20% after the social media company reported user growth that fell short of expectations amid heightened scrutiny and the challenge of handling posts around the U.S. election. Twitter ad revenue grew 15% year over year to $808 million, but the company

Joggers pass the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Erin Scott | Bloomberg | Getty Images With inflation still elusive and a host of questions surrounding an economy that just set a single-quarter record for growth, the Federal Reserve faces a choice of whether to wait for

Graduates attend the commencement ceremony at Beihang University in Beijing, capital of China, June 29, 2020. Ren Chao | Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images BEIJING — As China presses on with its economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, new university graduates are still trying to catch up. By official and third-party accounts, the class

Nitat Termmee | Moment | Getty Images These days, it’s harder than ever for consumers to know if they’re getting good financial advice. Current rules make it easy — and legal — for brokers to recommend investments that aren’t in the best interest of their clients. This framework has been in place for years on

Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher has a message for investors: Buckle up. The firm’s head of macro strategy warns Wednesday’s market turbulence may just be a preview of what’s ahead. “When you think about the U.S. elections, Covid worsening [and] all sorts of other news items coming out in the next couple of weeks, it

People pass by The New York Stock Exchange. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic is likely to cause a long-lasting “zombification” of the global economy, a prominent research firm warns.  Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, suggested that those “zombie” features previously associated with the

Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images U.S. stock futures fell on Tuesday night following a mixed session in which traders weighed a recent uptick in coronavirus infections. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures traded 150 points lower, or 0.5%. S&P 500 slid 0.6% and Nasdaq 100 futures dipped 0.4%. The Dow fell more than 200

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images A new bipartisan retirement bill has perks for seniors and savers shouldering student debt. The legislation, proposed by House lawmakers on Tuesday, would raise the age at which seniors must start drawing money from their 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts to 75. Under

The Ant Group Co. logo is displayed at the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Ant Group will close its Hong Kong institutional book building process a day earlier than expected due to strong demand for its record initial public offering