Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Spotify — The streaming stock popped 7.4% after Spotify reported an increase in Premium subscribers — which reached 236 million in the fourth quarter — that beat analysts’ expectations as estimated by the FactSet consensus. Palantir — Shares of the data analytics provider surged more than…

Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday narrowly beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations and announced that it would recommence share buybacks worth up to $1 billion in the second half of the year. The group posted a net loss attributable to shareholders of $279 million for the quarter. Analysts polled…

Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Palantir Technologies — Shares jumped 17% after Palantir posted a revenue beat in the fourth quarter. Revenue came in at $608.4 million versus the $602.4 forecast by analysts, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. The company posted adjusted earnings of 8 cents per share, which was…

Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha on Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s flagship hedge fund rose last month as volatility made a return amid the debate about rate cuts, according to a person familiar with the returns. Citadel’s multistrategy flagship Wellington fund climbed 1.9% in January, following…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Nvidia — The chipmaker climbed 4% and reached an all-time high after Goldman Sachs increased its price target to $800 per share from $625. Catalent , Novo Nordisk — The contract drug manufacturer climbed about 10% on the back of an agreement to get taken over…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Estee Lauder — The cosmetics stock jumped 15% after Estee Lauder beat expectations with its latest results. In its second quarter, Estee Lauder reported adjusted earnings of 88 cents per share, topping the FactSet consensus estimate of 54 cents per share. Revenue of $4.28 billion exceeded…

Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Östberg speaking at the Noah tech conference in Berlin on June 13, 2019. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg via Getty Images Delivery Hero published preliminary financial results on Monday, a week earlier than planned, that showed the company grew sales in line with its guidance last year and is forecasting stronger profitability…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference following the release of the Fed’s interest rate policy decision at the Federal Reserve in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell vowed in an interview aired Sunday that the central bank will proceed carefully with interest rate cuts…

Big Tech’s market dominance may push more investors to equal-weight exchange-traded funds, according to VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth. “Investors are getting nervous that too much money is concentrated in a handful of stocks within the broader ETFs that they have available that [are] tied to the S&P 500 or even the Nasdaq 100,” the firm’s head…

Tristan Fewings/Getty Images LONDON — Superdry shares soared more than 100% on Friday, as the embattled British fashion retailer confirmed that co-founder and CEO Julian Dunkerton is considering taking it private. The stock peaked at 48.55 pence per share shortly before 11 a.m. London time and was last trading at around 46p per share. A…