Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Crypto stocks – Stocks tied to crypto prices jumped amid reports that President-elect Donald Trump could release an executive order making crypto a national priority as soon as the first day of his new term. Shares of crypto exchange operators Coinbase and Robinhood advanced 4.5% and…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: J.B. Hunt Transport Services — Shares fell more than 7% after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings came in weaker than expected. J.B. Hunt earned $1.53 per share, below the LSEG consensus estimate of $1.61 per share. Meanwhile, revenue for the period came in line with expectations at…
Railway builders erect a box girder at the site of the standard project in front of the Huning section of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on January 10, 2025. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s economic activity accelerated more than expected in the final three months of 2024 as stimulus…
A customer browses eggs on partially empty shelves at a grocery store in Lawndale, California, on Jan. 2, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Inflation ticked up in December on the back of higher energy and food prices, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The bureau’s consumer price index, an inflation…
Prices barely moved in November but still held higher than the Federal Reserve’s target when looked at from a year ago, according to a Commerce Department measure released Friday. The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, showed an increase of just 0.1% from October. The measure indicated a 2.4% inflation rate…
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point, the third consecutive reduction and one that came with a cautionary tone about additional reductions in coming years. In a move widely anticipated by markets, the Federal Open Market Committee cut its overnight borrowing rate to a target…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Nvidia — Shares slipped roughly 2%, putting the artificial intelligence chipmaker officially in correction territory after tumultuous trading over the past month. MicroStrategy — The bitcoin proxy stock rose more than 6% after Nasdaq announced MicroStrategy will be added to the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 index . This…
The Federal Reserve will take center stage in the coming days as Wall Street attempts to put a mixed week behind it. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday registered its seventh consecutive down session, its longest losing streak since 2020, on its way to falling 1.8% for the week. The S & P 500…
President-elect Donald Trump arrives to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in New York. Alex Brandon | AP Americans say they are ready to support President-elect Donald Trump in his second term and majorities give a green light to some of his controversial promises on the campaign…
After President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning, he spoke to CNBC’s Jim Cramer from the trading floor about his plan for boosting the American economy. Trump refrained from making any stock market predictions, telling Cramer a “dip… can always happen.” The Republican also cheered cryptocurrency, saying…