My top 10 things to watch Friday, Feb. 21 1. Texas Roadhouse , our newest Club stock, delivered a strong quarter , though there’s some weather-related noise around its current-quarter traffic. It also warned of beef inflation because of tighter projected cattle sizes later this year. Layer in the egg situation, and the agriculture complex…
Walmart (WMT) investors got caught asleep at the switch. Shares logged their worst day in more than a year on Thursday, tanking 6.23% as the retailer surprised investors with a weak 2025 outlook. Shares were relatively unchanged in premarket trading on Friday. The session was a new, unwelcome development in the Walmart story. For much…
American stocks have been trailing behind their European counterparts in the month since President Donald Trump took office, amid uncertainty about the country’s economic future and challenges facing its highest-performing players. As first reported by the Financial Times, the Stoxx Europe 600—which tracks large, mid and small cap firms on the continent—is up 5.6 percent…
When things appear too good to be true, they often are on Wall Street. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the benchmark S&P 500 rallied to yet another record-closing high. For more than two years, the bulls have had a tight grip on Wall Street’s proverbial reins, with optimists being handsomely rewarded. Catalysts have been abundant, with…
Nvidia’s profit report next week could steer the U.S. stock market’s course, as investors seek confirmation that the AI-driven investment trend, which has powered equities for two years, is intact after last month’s panic-selling triggered by the Chinese startup DeepSeek. Source link
(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures were largely flat on Friday after declining in the previous session when investors fretted over President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate outlook. All three indexes clocked declines in the last session also after a downbeat forecast from retail giant Walmart. Walmart edged 0.4% higher…
Stock futures were struggling to find direction early Friday after dropping on Thursday. Earnings from Walmart, which competes with Amazon as the country’s biggest retailer, have cast a pall over the outlook for consumer spending—the biggest part of the economy. Even though Walmart posted solid earnings, its guidance for the rest of the year was…
TOKYO (AP) — Global markets were mixed on Friday amid a surge in China led by Alibaba stock, as euphoria continued over DeepSeek’s potential in the artificial intelligence sector. France’s CAC 40 rose 0.2% in early trading to 8,141.52, while Germany’s DAX dipped 0.3% to 22,283.89. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell less than 0.1% to 8,656.31….
Duquesne Family Office’s billionaire chief shed a trillion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) stock in favor of a historically cheap drugmaker that’s more than doubled in less than two years. Though earnings season — the roughly six-week period each quarter where a majority of S&P 500 companies reveal their latest operating results — provides plenty of juicy…
Tokyo, Japan skyline with the Tokyo Tower Chunyip Wong | E+ | Getty Images Hong Kong shares hit a three-year high Friday, leading gains in the region as investors weighed inflation data from Japan against tariff threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 2.98% to its highest level since February…