A trader on the NYSE, March 11, 2022. Source: NYSE Investors may take the Federal Reserve’s first post-pandemic interest rate hike in stride, while uncertainty over the Ukraine crisis continues ...
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Women gain ground in the boardroom, holding 29% of director seats in 2022
Thomas Barwick | Stone | Getty Images Less than a third of corporate board seats are now held by women, despite evidence that has shown that gender diversity in boardrooms can lead to higher credit ra...
Oracle, Uber, Pearson and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Oracle (ORCL) – The business software giant’s shares fell 2.3% in the premarket after its adjusted quarterly profit of $1.13 per share f...
Stock futures are flat as Dow heads for fifth straight losing week amid Russia-Ukraine war
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, March 2, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures were flat ahead of Friday’s session as the Dow Jones Industrial average headed for its fifth losing week in a row amid...
Pimco faces potential losses over exposure to more than $1 billion in Russian debt
PIMCO headquarters in Newport Beach, California Scott Mlyn | CNBC Pimco’s billion-dollar exposure to Russian debt came under pressure as the country, which invaded its neighbor Ukraine causing i...
Amazon, CrowdStrike, Micron and more
A worker sits on a wall dividing an informal settlement from the new Amazon fulfillment center, which is under construction at RMSG Alamar Industrial Park, in Tijuana, Mexico September 7, 2021. Jorge ...
Amazon, Boeing, CrowdStrike and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Amazon.com (AMZN) – Amazon jumped 5.3% in the premarket after it announced a 20-for-1 stock split and a $10 billion share buyback program. The...
Stock futures are little changed after S&P 500’s best one-day rally since 2020
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Feb. 28, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures were little changed in overnight trading Wednesday after the major indexes posted sharp gains as commodity prices cooled. Fu...
Amazon, Netflix, Bumble and more
Netflix logo Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Bumble — Shares of the online dating company surged more than 43% in midday tradi...
Campbell Soup, Express, Thor Industries and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Campbell Soup (CPB) – The food producer matched estimates with adjusted quarterly earnings of 69 cents per share, and revenue essentially in l...
China watches as Ukraine war makes U.S., EU and Japan show unity
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting during the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit in Brasilia on November 14, 2019. Pavel Golo...
Stock futures are lower as investors continue monitoring rising commodities prices and the ongoing war in Ukraine
Traders at the NYSE, March 8, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures were lower Tuesday evening as investors continued to assess a surge in commodity prices and high inflation while the war in Ukraine conti...
Chevron, Caterpillar, SunPower and more
A sign is posted in front of a Chevron gas station on July 31, 2020 in Novato, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Shell — Shares of ...
Crude oil jumps on report U.S. to ban Russian oil imports
A man pumps gas into his vehicle at a petrol station in Montebello, California on February 23, 2022, as gas prices hit over $6 dollars per gallon. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Oil prices jum...
Biz optimism on U.S.-China back to Trump era, AmCham survey says
BEIJING — American businesses in China no longer expect relations between the two countries to improve from the tensions of the Trump administration, according to a business association survey. After ...
Stock futures dip after the S&P 500’s worst day since October 2020 amid Russia-Ukraine war
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, March 4, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures fell slightly in overnight trading Monday following the S&P 500’s worst day since October, as investors remained o...
Closing gender gap could boost global GDP by $2 trillion, Citi says
Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images Women receive a small fraction of venture capital funding and closing the investment gender gap could drive economic growth, according to a new report from Citigroup. Fe...
Bed Bath & Beyond, United, PVH and more
A person enters a Bed Bath & Beyond store on October 01, 2021 in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday tr...
Dow futures fall 300 points as oil prices spike to 13-year high on Russia-Ukraine war
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. equity futures fell Sunday evening as ...
National average for a gallon of gas tops $4, the highest price at the pump since 2008
Fuel prices are displayed at gas stations on March 03, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Increasing demand and dwindling supplies coupled with global supply uncertainty driven by the war in Ukraine have driv...
China defense spending to rise by 7.1% in 2022, says finance ministry
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops during a parade on October 1, 2019, to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in 1949, ...
Cramer cautions investors to avoid these 4 retail stocks that recently went public
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday provided a list of four newly public retail stocks investors should stay away from. The “Mad Money” host said that as companies that went public in the la...
Ulta has the best chance of ‘roaring higher’
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday previewed next week’s earnings roster and said weekend developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be the most important indicator of the marketR...
China on deck to reveal its 2022 GDP target
Workers weld at a workshop of an automobile manufacturer in Qingzhou, East China’s Shandong Province, on March 1, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China is sl...
Incoming Splunk CEO Gary Steele on his new role, company outlook
The incoming CEO of Splunk, Gary Steele, told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday he hopes to be a “stabilizing force” for the company and its customers. Steele, whose appointment was announ...
Jim Cramer says Devon Energy is insurance against geopolitical chaos
Investors who want to a stock to guard against global uncertainty in light of the Russia-Ukraine war should look to Devon Energy, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. The “Mad Money” host&...
Average national gasoline price surges to $3.83 a gallon, the highest since 2012
Fuel prices are displayed at gas stations on March 03, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Increasing demand and dwindling supplies coupled with global supply uncertainty driven by the war in Ukraine have driv...
S&P Dow Jones is removing Russia stocks from indices, stripping country of emerging market status
An employee looks at a stock price index graph showing plunging stock prices on an electronic information screen at the headquarters of the Micex-RTS Moscow Exchange. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Gett...
Costco, Rivian, Signature Bank, Sweetgreen
Shoppers wearing face masks leave a Costco wholesale store in Washington, D.C. Ting Shen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Costco — The st...
Huawei’s competitor to Tesla electric cars to begin deliveries in China
Consumers check out Huawei’s first HarmonyOS car, the Aito M5, at a store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on Jan. 3, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — The firs...