Following the worst week for stocks since the financial crisis, UBS‘s Jason Katz said Friday investors should “take a deep breath” and have a moment of introspection over the weekend. “Reflect on the fact that the markets had a made meaningful move up last year and up until recently, and that corrections are par for
Month: February 2020
A Wayfair employee works at his desk at the Boston headquarters of Wayfair on July 31, 2018. Suzanne Kreiter | Boston Globe | Getty Images Wayfair‘s stock tanked Friday morning, after the online furniture retailer’s losses widened more than expected during the holiday quarter. Its shares were recently down more than 15% in premarket trading.
You can afford this or that, and you think you want it. But should you buy it? We live in a country that really likes to buy things. But even when we can buy what we want without too much financial strain, what we feel afterwards isn’t always positive. We’ve all been there. You’re excited
Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Drugmaker Mylan said on Thursday it expects the coronavirus outbreak to impact its financial results and warned of drug shortages in case of continued spread of the virus, sending shares of the company down 3.6%. The outbreak has so far mainly battered China, causing nearly 80,000
A staff member displays a burger with a Beyond Meat plant-based patty at VeggieWorld fair in Beijing, China November 8, 2019. Jason Lee | Reuters Beyond Meat on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that topped analysts’ expectations but disappointed investors by falling shy of reporting a second profitable quarter. Shares of the company fell 6% in
Apple staff and customers, wearing facemasks to protect against the COVID-19 coronavirus, are seen on the shop premises in Beijing on February 22, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images Earnings growth for U.S. companies will be stagnant in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street firm
A view of a Best Buy retail store on August 29, 2019 in San Bruno, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Best Buy on Thursday reported fourth-quarter results that exceeded analysts’ expectations, driven by strong sales of headphones, appliances and other items over the holidays. Shares were down more than 2% amid rising market worries
A woman shops for clothing at the JC Penney store in the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York. Saul Martinez | Bloomberg | Getty Images J.C. Penney‘s fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday topped analysts’ expectations, despite steep sales declines during the holiday season. While CEO Jill Soltau said she has been encouraged by Penney’s
A woman with a facial mask passes the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 3, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images It’s no secret that coronavirus fears have infected the market and prompted concerns about a potential global economic downturn. Yet even amid scary headlines
During tax season, people have a lot on their minds, like tax forms, numbers and that looming April 15 deadline. One thing many aren’t thinking about is the opportunity that refunds present to ramp up their emergency savings. About 72% of Americans received a refund on their taxes in 2019. This extra jolt of cash
A sign is posted outside of the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images PayPal on Thursday said the coronavirus outbreak could have a negative impact on its revenue expectations, and warned that revenue for the first quarter of this year would be toward the lower end of the guidance it
Budweiser beer products manufactured by Anheuser-Busch InBev NV sit on display during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Kyle Lam | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev forecast a 10% decline in first-quarter profit on Thursday after the coronavirus outbreak hit beer sales during the
Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer of Square Inc., second right, tours the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. Yana Paskova | Bloomberg | Getty Images Square beat market expectation for quarterly profit on Wednesday, as the payments processor earned more from its subscription and
This photo taken on January 11, 2018 shows a woman walking past Marriott signage in Hangzhou in China’s Zhejiang province. – | AFP | Getty Images Hotel operator Marriott International said it expects a roughly $25 million hit to its monthly fee revenue from the fast-spreading coronavirus, as U.S. airline JetBlue Airways said it would
Microsoft shares fell 2% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company said it doesn’t expect to meet the quarterly revenue guidance it previously provided for the segment that includes Windows. The move comes during a week that has seen a market selloff amid fears about the virus. Last week Apple disclosed that it did
Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix Scott Mlyn | CNBC Nutanix shares sank as much as 24% in extended trading on Wednesday after the developer of cloud storage and networking software cited coronavirus concerns as one reason for lowering its 2020 revenue outlook. The company said that software and support sales for the full year, based on
Pedestrians walk past a Victoria’s Secret store, a subsidiary of L Brands, in New York. Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images L Brands reported earnings and sales for the holiday quarter that topped analysts’ expectations, as it prepares to take its Victoria’s Secret lingerie business private. Its shares were relatively unchanged in after-hours trading
Chamath Palihapitiya Heidi Gutman | CNBC Billionaires should be grateful for their good fortune and stop being so sensitive to public criticism and name-calling by politicians, tech billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said Wednesday. In a heated billionaire-versus-billionaire debate with former hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, Palihapitiya said that being demonized or labeled “out of touch” is a
Lowe’s on Wednesday reported mixed fourth-quarter results, with sales weaker than expected, and provided a disappointing forecast. Share prices rose 1.4% in premarket trading. Here’s what Lowe’s reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings per share: 94 cents, adjusted vs. 91 cents expected Revenue: $16.03
Top management at global companies are clueless on the full extent of the coronavirus impact and how it will affect their companies in the coming months, a portfolio manager told CNBC Wednesday. Many firms have highlighted that their operations will suffer as a result of the virus and some have taken precautionary measures. But Pieter
A view of atmosphere at the launch of SmileDirectClub’s Smile Kit at Macy’s Roosevelt Field Mall on June 30, 2018 in Garden City, New York. Gary Gershoff | Getty Images SmileDirectClub said on Tuesday it is looking at a “controlled growth” in 2020 after the online dental company posted a bigger-than-expected loss as it spent
Baseball, known locally as yakyuu (or literally “field ball”), is a national phenomenon in Japan. Masaoka Shiki, one of Japan’s four great haiku masters, wrote several poems praising it. Osaka’s most infamous urban legend centers around it. It’s even more popular than the nation’s native sumo. According to data published by Japan’s Central Research Services
Salesforce stock initially sank 3% in extended trading on Tuesday after the company said co-CEO Keith Block is stepping down. Marc Benioff, the other co-CEO, becomes sole CEO. The company also announced fiscal fourth-quarter results that beat expectations, along with an acquisition. Block joined Salesforce from Oracle as president and vice chairman in 2013, he
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity flies to its new home in at Spaceport America in New Mexico on Feb. 13, 2020. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic reported a larger-than-anticipated loss when it reported fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, although the interest from prospective customers in the company’s future spaceflights continued to climb. CEO George Whitesides told shareholders on
Home Depot on Tuesday beat Wall Street’s earnings expectations for the fourth quarter, boosted by a strong holiday season and above average sales of appliances. The Atlanta-based home improvement retailer has been focused on integrating its brick-and-mortar stores and its online business. It’s in the middle of a three-year, $11 billion investment program. Home Depot
Macy’s reported fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday that outpaced expectations, helped by a boost from last-minute shoppers who lifted sales in the days leading up to Christmas. Shares climbed as much as 6% in premarket trading, before they dropped and opened flat. “Taken as a whole, 2019 did not play out as we intended for Macy’s,
Sophia Bera, CEO and founder of Gen Y Planning. When financial advisor Sophia Bera founded her Austin, Texas-based practice in 2013, she decided to work primarily with millennial clients. Bera, then 29, wanted to help her peers navigate their early careers and the thorny financial issues, such as managing student debt and buying a first
Historic England is the country’s official list keeper of the most historically and architecturally significant places in England — places such as monuments, shipwrecks and battlefields. And pubs. Earlier this month, the heritage organization updated 11 English pub listings to reflect their cultural heritage and national importance, with one receiving a coveted Grade I designation.
Shares of Mastercard fell on Monday after the credit card company issued a warning that the fast-spreading coronavirus could hurt its revenue this year. “Cross-border travel, and to a lesser extent cross-border e-commerce growth, is being impacted by the Coronavirus,” the company said in a statement on Monday after the bell. The company said its
A woman wear a protective mask in Venice, Italy, on February 23, 2020 due to concerns over coronavirus infection. The carnival was suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy. NurPhoto Ferrari has suspended tours of its factory and shut down museums near its headquarters following the outbreak of coronavirus in Northern Italy. Ferrari’s
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