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…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. McDonald’s — Shares were down slightly in the premarket after the fast food giant reported second-quarter results that missed analyst expectations . McDonald’s also said its same-store sales — a key metric for restaurants — declined broadly. Revvity — Shares gained 6% after the life sciences…

China has, in its own way, signaled it wants to support specific kinds of consumer purchases. Authorities on Thursday announced the equivalent of 300 billion yuan ($41.5 billion) in special bonds would go towards trade-ins and equipment upgrades — a significant expansion of an existing program. “Compared to previous policies on equipment upgrade and consumer…

“The Big Short” traders Danny Moses, Vincent Daniel and Porter Collins are focused on one of their top long bets: gold. “I just don’t think Americans have enough gold in their portfolio,” Collins said on CNBC’s ” Fast Money ” in an exclusive interview this week . The three investors are known for their successful…

Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is postponing the highly scrutinized listing of Pershing Square’s U.S. closed-end fund, according to a notice on the New York Stock Exchange’s website. The initial public offering of Pershing Square USA Ltd, with the ticker PSUS, has…

For Frank Cappelleri, technical analysis — reading charts to identify patterns in stocks and other assets — is not an art or a science. “It’s both.” That’s because, “I can look at an indicator and use a different way that someone else does,” Cappelleri, the founder and president of CappThesis, told CNBC’s Senior Markets Correspondent…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. CrowdStrike — Shares of CrowdStrike were up nearly 2% after CEO George Kurtz said that more than 97% of Window sensors were back online after last week’s global IT outage. However, the stock is on pace for a 17% week-to-date decline. Semiconductor stocks — Nvidia ,…

It’s a historic week for the cryptocurrency markets with spot ether exchange-traded funds making their debut. Franklin Templeton is one of the nine spot ether ETF applicants which got approval Tuesday from the Securities and Exchange commission. The firm is behind the Franklin Ethereum ETF (EZET) — now down about 10% since its inception as…

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Deckers Outdoor — The footwear company’s stock jumped 8% after Deckers reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $4.52 per share on revenue of $825 million, exceeding analysts’ expectations for earnings of $3.48 per share on revenue of $808 million. Dexcom — Shares of the medical device company…