Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: “What a great company. $93 billion market cap company, run incredibly well. That’s my kind of company for this environment.” Arconic Inc.: “We’re not arbitrageurs. Let’s just take the profit and run, or even, frankly, let’s just go, because we don’t know how that deal’s going to work out.” Qualcomm Inc.:

Christophe Morin/IP3 | Getty Images News | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc. attends the Viva Tech start-up and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France.  Facebook on Thursday released its latest report on the removal of harmful content from

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.6 percent, with major indexes in the red, except for FTSE 100 that held on to a slight positive. Raab, in a letter to the U.K leader, said he could not reconcile with the terms of her proposed Brexit deal, after the promises the ruling Conservative Party made to

Huawei is working on its own voice assistant that works outside of China, potentially pitting it against software produced by Google and Amazon. In China, Huawei has its own voice assistant called Xiaoyi which operates in its smart speaker called the AI Cube and its smartphones. But it is only for the Chinese market. Now

SurveyMonkey stock shot up nearly 15 percent Wednesday, a day after the company reported solid earnings for its first quarter as a public company and a growing enterprise user base. Shares climbed as much as 19 percent to $13.45 in midday trading, after initially jumping just 3 percent immediately following the report Tuesday evening. It

U.S. stock futures pointed to a negative open on Wednesday amid volatility in the oil market and as investors looked ahead to upcoming inflation data. As of 4:40 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 78 points lower, indicating a lower open of -23 points, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were also in

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Richard Yu, chief executive officer of Huawei Technologies Co., holds the Mate 10 Pro smartphone while speaking during the company’s keynote event at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018.  Huawei is working on augmented reality (AR) smart

Starbucks is planning to cut approximately 5 percent of its global corporate workforce, according to a memo sent by CEO Kevin Johnson on Tuesday. In the memo obtained by CNBC, Johnson said the lay offs would impact 350 employees in marketing, creative, product, technology and store development. Johnson said affected divisions will undergo “significant changes”

U.S. stock futures traded higher on Tuesday following a sharp downturn in the previous session. As of around 4:40 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 108 points, indicating a higher open of 112 points, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were also in positive territory. On Monday, equities dived with the Dow falling

Nvidia Corp.: “Yes[, this is a good time to start nibbling on Nvidia]. OK, Nvidia reports on Thursday. I think the quarter is going to be just OK, not great. I think your next quarter is going to have a product gap because they’ve got this Turing chip that is so smart that nobody’s running

General Electric CEO Larry Culp acknowledged Monday that his decision to slash the quarterly dividend to a penny sent regular investors scrambling. “When we announced on our earnings conference call that we were taking our dividend down to 4 cents a year, we didn’t do anything positive for our retail shareholder base and they have

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba may have recorded its slowest ever annual growth rate for its Singles Day shopping extravaganza this year, but a large online retailer in Southeast Asia that is majority-owned by Alibaba said it witnessed accelerating growth during the event. Southeast Asia is at the “beginning of the journey” and still witnessing “accelerating

Screenshot | Microsoft live stream Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and SAP CEO Bill McDermott announce the Open Data Initiative at Microsoft’s 2018 Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida. Legacy tech companies have been scooping up smaller cloud and software providers in massive deals throughout 2018. The consolidation comes as older enterprise tech

Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images View of the arrival hall at the newly built Changi airport terminal 4 in Singapore on July 25, 2017. In October, the world’s longest flight made its maiden voyage, from Newark Liberty International Airport, landing at Changi Airport in Singapore nearly 19 hours later. The Airbus A350-900ULR —

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba promises that this year’s annual Singles’ Day this Sunday will be the “largest-ever in terms of scale and reach.” The holiday, which started as a day for unmarried Chinese to buy gifts for themselves, has become the biggest single shopping event in the world. Consumers bought a record $25.3 billion in

The Harry Potter franchise is strong enough to turn movies into blockbusters, even without its titular character. With author J.K. Rowling at the helm, Warner Bros. is pushing ahead with taking the beloved franchise and delving deeper into its mythology. Its next installment of the franchise, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” is due out

For young couples, major relationship milestones used to look something like a borrowed letterman jacket or a shiny key to an apartment — a show of trust and commitment, and a means to say, what’s mine is yours. Younger millennials and Gen Z teens, more tech-savvy and less privacy-keen than generations before, have kept the

Cramer is tired of high-performing companies getting the runaround from investors after reporting strong earnings. “We’ve seen so many companies report great numbers this quarter and the market has yawned or even trashed their stocks for no good reason, other than misperception,” he said. Using Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings as an example, Cramer pointed to

Toymaker Funko has a notable “competitive advantage” in the world of online battle-royale gaming craze Fortnite, its CEO Brian Mariotti told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday. “We’re the first one to grab a license, we’re the first one to have the product in the marketplace and our category, so we think we have a competitive

In a new agreement between tech giants Amazon and Apple, shoppers will soon see a selection of the latest Apple products on the e-commerce behemoth, Amazon told CNBC in statement. The agreement means the latest Apple products like the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max will be available on Amazon. Amazon and Apple have a

U.S. stock futures pointed to a negative open on Friday as investors digested the latest comments from the Federal Reserve. As of 4:40 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were seen down by 79 points, indicating a negative open of -57 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were also in the red. The Fed

Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Sunday July 8, 2018.  The Food and Drug Administration plans to limit sales of most flavored e-cigarettes to vape shops and move forward with a ban

Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google employees hold signs during a walkout to protest how the tech giant handled sexual misconduct in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018.  Google CEO Sundar Pichai just sent a memo to employees detailing changes to its sexual harassment and misconduct policies in the wake

Holding an early Thanksgiving dinner, or even lunch, this year? Then Walmart wants you to head to its stores to party before you shop. The retailer said it will hold events in stores on Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. with free coffee and cookies. As it did last year, Walmart

If CNBC’s Jim Cramer knows one thing about the United States Congress, it’s that “a house divided against itself can produce some amazing profits” for investors, he said one day after the 2018 midterm elections. On Tuesday, the Democratic Party regained control in the House of Representatives, while the Republican Party maintained its majority in

Health insurer stocks rallied Wednesday after Democrats took control of the U.S. House in Tuesday’s elections, buffering further attempts by the GOP to repeal or further weaken Obamacare. The approval of Medicaid expansion referendum votesin Idaho, Nebraska and Utah were also seen a positive for insurers. The expansion would mean potentially thousands of poor Americans

The world’s largest gaming market has the potential to grow even bigger, according to the head of casino giant MGM. Macau, the gambling haven located in southern China, stands to benefit from the extensive investment being pumped into the Greater Bay Area initiative, James Murren, CEO of MGM Resorts International, told CNBC on Tuesday. That

Investors “have to look at the overall economy” and not focus so much on President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel imports when considering whether to invest in Nucor, the country’s largest steel producer, its CEO told CNBC on Tuesday. “We hear a lot of talk about the tariffs and, certainly, the tariffs are playing a

AMD shares rose about 8 percent on Tuesday after the semiconductor company said Amazon’s cloud unit would start using its Epyc data center chips to deliver services to third-party customers. The announcement was made by AMD CEO Lisa Su at the AMD Next Horizon event in San Francisco. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest

U.S. stock futures traded mixed on Tuesday as voters are set to head to the polls for midterm election which could send ripples throughout capital markets. As of 4:00 a.m. ET, Dow futures were down by 2 points, but indicated a slightly higher open of 17 points. Meanwhile, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures traded mildly