Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Target — Shares of the retailer surged 12% on second-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations. The company maintained its cautious outlook but said sales grew roughly 3%. JD.com — The U.S.-traded shares of the Chinese e-commerce company fell more than 5% after Walmart confirmed it…

Signage at JD.com’s warehouse in Shanghai, China, on Mar. 9, 2022. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday added over 80 firms to its list of entities facing possible expulsion from American exchanges, which include China’s JD.com, Pinduoduo, Bilibili, and NetEase. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Toll Brothers — Shares added 1% after the homebuilding company surpassed Wall Street’s earnings expectations in the fiscal third quarter. Toll Brothers also lifted its full-year deliveries guidance. Microchip Technology — Shares of the microcontroller maker fell about 2%. The company disclosed in a regulatory…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Bank of America — The bank stock slid 2% after a regulatory filing revealed Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is not done downsizing its stake. The conglomerate sold 13.9 million more shares of the bank for $550.7 million over the past three trading days, bringing its stake…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Eli Lilly — Shares added 1.7% after a late-stage trial found the pharma company’s weight-loss drug tirzepatide, the active ingredient Zepbound and Mounjaro, reduced the risk of obese or overweight adults developing Type 2 diabetes by 94%. Paramount Global — The media and entertainment…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Advanced Micro Devices — The chipmaker’s stock gained more than 2%. Advanced Micro Devices announced plans to buy server builder ZT Systems in a cash-and-stock deal totaling $4.9 billion. HP — Shares slid more than 3% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the personal computing company to equal…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. AMD — Shares added nearly 3% before the opening bell following news that the semiconductor company would acquire ZT Systems in a $4.9 billion deal. Estée Lauder — The cosmetics stock pulled back 4% after the the company issued a disappointing first-quarter earnings and full-year outlook,…

A bank employee count China’s renminbi (RMB) or yuan notes next to U.S. dollar notes at a Kasikornbank in Bangkok, Thailand, January 26, 2023. Athit Perawongmetha | Reuters BEIJING — The U.S. and China last week signed agreements for cooperating on financial stability, according to a People’s Bank of China readout Monday. The agreement was…

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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Rocket Lab — The space company soared more than 16%, hitting a 52-week high, after packing and shipping two Mars-bound spacecraft to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for launch. The two spacecraft were designed, built, integrated and tested by Rocket Lab for the University of California Berkeley’s Space…