PNC Financial Services Has Big Ambitions—and a 3.4% Dividend Yield

With the acquisition of the U.S. banking operations of Spain’s BBVA, PNC now has a presence in all of the top 30 markets in the U.S., including St. Louis. Peter Newcomb/Great Forest Park Balloon Race ...

Gold prices log a 4th straight loss to end at a 3-week low

Gold futures gave up early gains on Thursday to suffer a fourth straight session loss, with prices settling at their lowest in three weeks on the back of strength in the U.S. dollar, as investors dige...

Unity Stock Tumbles After Board Rejects AppLovin’s $17.5 Billion Buyout Bid

Text size Unity Software doesn’t think AppLovin’s offer was in the best interests of its shareholders. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Videogaming company Unity Software  on Monday rejected Ap...

7 Companies at Risk of Liquidity Squeeze

Amid rising interest rates and a tightening credit market, companies with weaker balance sheets are getting squeezed by higher borrowing costs. Royal Caribbean Group (ticker: RCL) is a case in point. ...

Five Chinese Companies Say They Plan to Delist From the New York Stock Exchange

Five Chinese state-owned companies said they intend to delist their American depositary shares from the New York Stock Exchange, as financial regulators in Beijing and Washington remain at loggerheads...

10 defensive stocks that can also provide you with growth and dividends over the long term

The S&P 500 Index has rallied 10% since June 22 from a deep decline, but there are different schools of thought about whether investors are out of the woods yet. Mark Hulbert has called the recent...

Auto makers warn most electric vehicles won’t qualify for federal tax credit

But the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for a tax credit that large. That’s mainly because of the bill’s requirement that, to qualify for the credit, an e...

CleanSpark BTC Mining Company Acquires Additional Resources

3 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News The acquisition deal was made for $16.2 million with WAHA technologies.  The hashing rate of the company is expected to increase by 38% in 2023. CleanSpark Inc.,...

Unity loses less than feared, trims outlook as Applovin makes $20 billion bid for software company

On the same day it received an offer to acquire the company for roughly $20 billion, Unity Software Inc. reported a loss that was less than feared and pulled back on its guidance for the year, and sha...

Norwegian Stock Sinks as It Predicts Losses to Continue

Text size The cruise company predicted it would continue to be unprofitable in the third quarter. Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters/Alamy Shares of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings fell sharply Tuesday after ...

Disney, Coinbase, BioNTech, Rivian, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Second-quarter earnings season continues this week, while a pair of July inflation figures and consumer sentiment surveys will be the highlights on the economic-data calendar. On Monday, Tys...

Layer by Layer Issue 42: Aptos and Sui

August 6, 2022, 3:04PM EDT • 11 min read Quick Take In this weekly series, we dive into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 1 blockchain landscape, from DeFi and bridge...

AMC takes aim at massive debt burden with ‘APE’ special dividend

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. took Wall Street by surprise with the announcement of its “APE” special dividend after market close on Thursday. This, of course, is a company that is no stranger to bo...

Cloudflare stock rallies 25% following earnings beat, raised revenue outlook

Cloudflare Inc. shares surged in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company reported results that topped Wall Street expectations and hiked its revenue outlook for the year. Cloudfl...

Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.

Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...

Royal Caribbean Stock Tumbles on $900 Million Notes Offering

Text size Cruise lines had to to take out significant debt during the pandemic to stay afloat. Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty Images Royal Caribbean Group stock tumbled after the company said it had starte...

Gold scores biggest one day rally since March, silver jumps nearly 7% due to Fed-inspired ‘short squeeze’

Gold and silver rose sharply on Thursday, with gold logging its biggest one-day percentage gain since March and silver rallying by nearly 7% to finish at its highest price in a month. Price action Gol...

‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Doubts SEC Has Resources or IQ to Investigate Crypto Listings on Coinbase Correctly – Regulation Bitcoin News

Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, believes that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) neither has the resources nor the IQ points needed to...

“I Expect Us To Get More Done With Fewer Resources” – Update

UPDATED with commentary from earnings call. Facebook parent Meta Platforms reported its first quarterly drop in year-to-year revenue, with earnings per share sliding 32%, as worsening economic conditi...

With the Fed raising rates, should you pause plans to buy a house or car?

As if wasn’t already tough enough to make a major purchase at a time when living costs are skyrocketing, the interest rates to finance those pricey purchases are going up. Now consumers are confrontin...

Stock Futures Are Rising. Afternoon Earnings Boosted Tech Shares.

Text size Traders, here on the New York Stock Exchange, were encouraged by the earnings posted Tuesday. (NYSE) U.S. stock futures were up Tuesday evening as investors processed a rush of second-quarte...

These 20 stocks still have at least 48% upside, analysts say, despite the S&P 500’s 8% gain from its lows

The S&P 500 has climbed 8% since June 16, when it closed at its lowest point this year. While the benchmark index is still down 17% this year, analysts expect it to soar 21% over the next 12 month...

Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Plunges as Earnings Miss Estimates

Text size Cleveland-Cliffs stock has fallen a bit more than the broader market so far this year. Dreamstime Cleveland-Cliffs reported lower earnings than expected, news that sent the stock sharply low...

25 Stocks That Could Rise on a Short Squeeze

Investors betting against electric-vehicle stocks take note: Five of 25 stocks that short-selling research firm S3 Partners identified this month as being at risk of a short squeeze are in the EV busi...

Gold Has Been a Disappointment This Year. What Could Change That.

Rising interest rates and strength in the dollar contributed to gold’s drop to $1,700.20 an ounce on July 20, the lowest finish since March 30, 2021. Here: a row of gold ingots in a foundry. Andrey Ru...

Gold prices fall back to a more than 15-month low

Gold futures declined on Wednesday as the U.S. dollar found its footing following a brief pullback, dragging prices for the metal back down to their lowest settlement in more than 15 months. Price act...

SEC Enforcement Head Asks Congress for More Resources to Tackle Crypto Issues

In May, the SEC nearly doubled the size of its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit to 50 employees, adding 20 new positions including attorneys, investigators and fraud analysts to its Washington, D.C., head...

A ‘who’s who of American business’ — big Wall Street names are marking the end phase of the bear market, says adviser

The good news about this bear market in stocks is that we’re more than halfway through it. The bad news is that we’re getting close to the final stage, when “everything must fall.” That’s according to...

Here’s the sector most at risk from Russia permanently shutting off gas to Germany — and it’s taking a tumble

There are few companies with more at stake from Russian natural-gas flows into Germany than the chemicals sector. Shares of chemicals companies including BASF BAS, +2.61%, Lanxess LXS, +3.77% and Cove...

Meta could repurpose Novi’s resources to develop metaverse digital wallet

Only seven months after it launched its digital wallet Novi, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (NASDAQ: META) has announced its retirement as of September 1, 2022, due to regulatory roadblocks, but this doesn’t ...

Broadcom loses top software exec in the middle of VMware deal to head combined Citrix-Tibco company

Broadcom Inc.’s head of software Tom Krause is leaving the company in the middle of a $61 billion software acquisition he helped bring about, which analysts called “a surprise” and “not the greatest o...

Freeport-McMoRan and Rio Tinto Stock Could Be Golden

Text size Freeport-McMoRan and Rio Tinto are top picks of Jefferies analyst Chris LeFemina. Above, copper rods used to machine parts. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Freeport-McMoRan and Rio Tinto m...