Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Kroger – Shares of the supermarket chain rallied more than 4%. Kroger reported mixed fiscal second-quarter results, posting adjusted earnings that beat expectations by 2 cents a share. Revenues came up shy of Wall Street’s estimates. Petco — Shares of the pet retailer soared 14%. That…

Ajit Jain at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Los Angeles, California. May 1, 2021. Gerard Miller | CNBC Ajit Jain, Warren’s Buffett’s insurance chief and top executive, sold more than half of his stake in Berkshire Hathaway, a new regulatory filing showed. The 73-year-old vice chairman of insurance operations dumped 200 shares of Berkshire Class…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Alaska Air Group — Shares gained 5% after Alaska Air Group raised its third-quarter outlook, citing strong summer demand. The airline guided for per-share earnings in the range of $2.15 and $2.25, greater than prior guidance of $1.40 to $1.60 earnings per share. Moderna — Shares…

September is living up to its reputation as a volatile month, and this creates more challenges to the Big Tech trade. But one low-volatility ETF is still betting big on it. Alliance Bernstein is behind the AB US Low Volatility Equity ETF. According to FactSet, its top three holdings include megacap winners Microsoft, Apple and…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Trump Media & Technology — The stock fell more than 13% following Tuesday’s debate between majority shareholder former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, Trump Media hit its lowest intraday level since going public on the Nasdaq in late March. Rentokil…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Trump Media & Technology – Shares slid more than 11% in the wake of the debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris . Trump Media is majority owned by the former president. Rentokil Initial – Shares plummeted about 20% following the…

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024.  CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offloaded another chunk of Bank of America shares, bringing its total sales to more than $7 billion since mid-July and reducing its stake to 11%. The Omaha-based conglomerate shed a total of 5.8…

Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of Sinovation Ventures, speaks during the HICOOL Global Entrepreneur Summit on September 11, 2021 in Beijing, China.   China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese artificial intelligence models may be at least half a year behind those developed in the U.S., but Chinese…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : GameStop — The gaming retailer was trading 1% lower after posting mixed second-quarter results. While revenue fell to $798 million from $1.16 billion a year ago, GameStop posted net income rose to 4 cents per share from a loss of 1 cent a share a…

Daniel Pinto, president and chief operating officer of JPMorgan Chase, speaks during the Semafor 2024 World Economy Summit in Washington, DC, on April 18, 2024. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase shares fell 7% Tuesday after the bank’s president told analysts that expectations for net interest income and expenses in 2025 were…