Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Hershey — Shares were down 7% in the premarket after the chocolate maker posted second-quarter results that missed analyst expectations. The company earned $1.27 per share on revenue of $2.07 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of $1.43 per share on revenue of $2.31…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Meta Platforms — Shares of the social media giant rallied more than 4%. Meta Platforms topped revenue and earnings expectations for the recent quarter, posting earnings of $5.16 per share on $39.07 billion in revenue. The company also offered a strong forecast for the current…

This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting in June. Text removed from the June statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined. Black text appears in both…

A woman browses the meat aisle at a supermarket in Montebello, California, on May 15, 2024. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images A recall of Boar’s Head products has expanded to include a whopping 7 million additional pounds of deli and poultry items in a deadly multistate outbreak of listeria infections. As of…

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Microsoft — Shares dropped 6% after the tech giant reported disappointing results out of its cloud business. That overshadowed beats on both lines for the fiscal fourth quarter. Advanced Micro Devices — The chipmaker jumped 5% as second-quarter results surpassed estimates. AMD posted adjusted earnings of…

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2024.  David A. Grogen | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway’s selling streak in its big Bank of America stake has extended to nine straight days, suggesting that Warren Buffett is not just trimming the longtime holding. The Omaha-based…

Illustrative image of two commemorative bitcoins seen in front of the national flag of Russia displayed on a computer screen. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Russia is considering legalizing the use of cryptocurrency for international payments as the country faces ongoing financial pressure from Western sanctions. The State Duma, which is the lower house…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : F5 — The tech stock surged 14% in after-hours trading after the company reported a blowout quarterly report. F5 posted adjusted earnings of $3.36 per share in the fiscal third quarter, compared to an LSEG estimate of $2.97 per share. Revenue of $695 million was…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: McDonald’s — McDonald’s shares jumped more than 4% even after the fast-food giant posted quarterly earnings and revenue that fell short of Wall Street’s estimates. Investors are likely relieved that the company is planning to continue to use its $5 value meals as a way to…

Companies with disappointing quarterly results are getting punished more than usual this earnings season. Second-quarter earnings misses have resulted in an average 3.8% decline for a stock from two days before the quarterly release through the two days after the report comes out, according to FactSet. That’s compared to the five-year average price decrease of…