Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Darden Restaurants — Shares advanced nearly 11% after the restaurant operator announced a multiyear partnership with Uber for on-demand delivery later this year. The company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and revenue, however, as its sales weakened at Olive Garden and its fine dining restaurants. NextEra Energy…
Ray Dalio said the 2024 U.S. elections will likely be the most important of his lifetime and he thinks the country needs a “strong leader of the middle.” Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday, the founder of Bridgewater Associates explained that the U.S. should aim to reach “broad-based prosperity” and the presidential election…
Binance CEO Richard Teng speaks in Singapore on Sept. 17, 2024, at an event hosted by the local foreign correspondents association. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has seen a 40% increase this year in institutional and corporate investors joining the platform, CEO Richard Teng told CNBC’s Lin Lin in an interview…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy in Washington, U.S., July 31, 2024. Kevin Mohatt | Reuters The Federal Reserve projected lowering interest rates by another half point before the end of 2024, and the central bank…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Intuitive Machines — Shares soared 51% after the space exploration company secured a roughly $5 billion space network contract from NASA. United States Steel — The U.S. steel producer saw shares jump more than 2% after news that a U.S. security panel has reportedly granted Nippon…
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters JPMorgan Chase has created a new global role overseeing all junior bankers in an…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. United States Steel — Shares advanced more than 3% after Reuters reported the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States granted a request to push back a review of Nippon Steel’s bid for U.S. Steel until after the November election. Reuters cited a person familiar…
Steven Cohen, founder of Point72 and majority owner of the New York Mets, attends a news conference at Citi Field, the home stadium of MLB’s New York Mets, in Queens, New York, on Feb. 10, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Billionaire investor Steve Cohen is retiring from the trading floor at his hedge fund Point72.…
DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve needs to ease policy swiftly amid the current economic slowdown, seeing a half-point interest-rate reduction this week. “The Fed just follows the two-year Treasury and the two-year Treasury is down at 3.6% so the Fed needs to cut rates [by] 150 [basis points] pretty quickly,” Gundlach…
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces Apple Card during a launch event at Apple headquarters on Monday, March 25, 2019, in Cupertino, California. Noah Berger | AFP | Getty Images Apple is in discussions with JPMorgan Chase for the bank to take over the tech giant’s flagship credit card program from Goldman Sachs, a person with…
