What Is a Poison Pill? Twitter Adopts Defensive Move to Fend Off Elon Musk.

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. He currently has a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Text size Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Fri...

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Twitter, Tesla and more

Twitter Kacper Pempel | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Twitter — Twitter shares ticked 1.4% higher after surging earlier on news that Elon Musk offered $54.20 a sh...

Twitter, Goldman Sachs, UnitedHealth and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Twitter (TWTR) – Twitter surged 8.2% in premarket trading after Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk – currently Twitter’s largest shareholder – o...

More parents bringing kids to Sin City

It may not be Orlando, but Las Vegas is giving other family-friendly destinations a run for the money.  “Sin City” once marketed itself to people with naughty inclinations with the slogan ...

Here’s the playbook if the rest of the world breaks free from the U.S. dollar, says Credit Suisse’s monetary plumbing guru

It’s pretty well accepted that no one knows as much about the plumbing of the world’s financial system as Zoltan Pozsar, global head of short-term interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse, who was the ...

Chipotle, PG&E, Marathon Oil and CarMax

A person wearing a protective mask enters a Chipotle restaurant in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, April 19, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies maki...

Dow falls more than 400 points, Nasdaq finishes 2.2% lower as Treasury yields keep surging

Dow industrials and the S&P 500 index book their biggest one-day declines since March on Monday, with energy, tech and other growth names bearing the brunt, as Treasury yields soared and investors...

Nio, Veru, Sailpoint Technologies and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Nio (NIO) – The China-based electric carmaker’s shares slumped 8.4% in premarket action after it suspended production due to Covid-19 ...

JetBlue, Eli Lilly, Occidental Petroleum and more

A JetBlue passenger jet (Embraer 190) taxis at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Wedn...

Twitter, Spirit Airlines, Tilray and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Twitter (TWTR) – Twitter fell 1.5% in premarket trading, potentially breaking a three-day win streak that has seen it gain nearly 32%. Elon Mu...

Elon Musk admits his Twitter investment isn’t passive and reveals that he began buying the stock in January

Elon Musk filed a new disclosure on his Twitter Inc. stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, admitting that he invested in the company with the goal of effecting change and that ...

A big shift is under way for markets, and old Warren Buffett shareholder letters point to which companies will survive

Given a war and inflation have marked the start of 2022, investors would be forgiven for holding their breath over the rest of the year’s offerings. Our call of the day from a team at Saxo Bank sees a...

Twitter, Carnival, First Solar and more

Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Ecstacy cruise ship is docked at the Port of Jacksonville amid the Coronavirus outbreak on March 27, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. Sam Greenwood | Getty Images H...

Carvana, First Solar, Generac and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Carvana (CVNA) – Carvana was downgraded to “sector perform” from “outperform” at RBC Capital Markets, with the price...

Stock futures are flat in overnight trading after tech-led rally

Traders on the floor of the NYSE, April 4, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures were flat in overnight trading Monday after investors bought the dip in technology shares following recent weakness. Futures...

Twitter, Starbucks, Tesla and more

Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Twitter — The social media company soared 26.6% after a filing revealed that Elon Musk has ...

Twitter, Tesla, Starbucks and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Twitter (TWTR) – Twitter shares soared 26.1% in the premarket after a Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed that Tesla CEO Elon M...

As Wall Street banks embrace crypto, start-ups look to lure top finance talent

Wall Street has been beefing up hiring for digital asset teams. But some employees are walking away from name-brand institutions in search of more risk, and potentially, more reward. JPMorgan Chase, M...

Which companies are being targeted by Anonymous? See their responses

In addition to Russian entities, Anonymous says it’s now targeting some Western companies. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The “hacktivist” collective known as An...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says billionaires should pay more taxes to help the ‘next Elon Musk

Elon Musk and fellow billionaires should pay it forward in taxes to support the next generation of entrepreneurs who can make a difference, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told CNBC on Tuesday. “...

Crypto investor Katie Haun raises $1.5 billion for Haun Ventures

Crypto investor Katie Haun has raised $1.5 billion for her new fund after leaving Andreessen Horowitz, and shattered multiple records in the process. Haun Ventures’ kickoff marks the largest deb...

ConsenSys doubles valuation to $7 billion with Microsoft backing

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Blockchain start-up ConsenSys has raised $450 million in a new round of funding that more than doubles its valuation to $7 billion. The cash i...

Russia restricts Instagram after Meta due to Ukraine threats

Meta logo displayed on a phone screen and Russian flag displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on March 1, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto |...

CNBC interview on new HBO show ‘Game Theory’

Bomani Jones onstage during “Colin In Black And White”, Netflix, And Dreamville Present Path To Power Summit at Clark Atlanta University on November 04, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Paras Gri...

Crypto companies tempt top talent away from Big Tech to build ‘Web3’

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp apps displayed on a smartphone. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images Executives at tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon are quitting to take jo...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk accuses SEC of leaking information

Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk, via his attorney, accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of leaking information about a federal investigation in order to ret...

Tesla CEO Musk accuses SEC of calculated effort to ‘chill’ his right to free speech

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., waves while departing court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images T...

The fall of Peloton’s John Foley and the market’s big founder problem

John Foley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Peloton Interactive Inc., stands for a photograph during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in Ne...

GM, Meta and Frito-Lay lean into nostalgia

Big brands that have in some cases sat out for years the TV advertising frenzy around the biggest US sporting event — the Super Bowl — are returning Sunday and spending big amid record ad ...

Coca-Cola, Twitter, Tapestry and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Coca-Cola (KO) – Coca-Cola shares added 1.3% in the premarket after the company beat estimates by 4 cents with adjusted quarterly earnings of ...

Disney, Uber, Coca-Cola and more

A performer dressed as Mickey Mouse entertains guests during the reopening of the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, U.S., on Friday, April 30, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ch...

Trump SPAC stock Digital World Acquisition Corp. plunges on delay news

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The stock price of the blank-check company that has partnered with ex-President Donald Trump’s social media firm plunged Monday in...