WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Tuesday released minutes from its highly divisive meeting earlier this month, which concluded with a vote to lower interest rates again that appeared to be an even closer call than the final vote indicated. Officials expressed a variety of opinions during the Dec. 9-10 meeting, according to the summary…
Check out some of the stocks posting the biggest moves in midday trading. Molina Healthcare – Shares advanced about 4%. “Big Short” investor Michael Burry in a Substack post noted that the health insurer could be a takeover candidate. He compared it to Warren Buffett’s investment in Geico. Intel – The chip company rose more…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Applied Digital — Shares rose more than 1% in the premarket after the company announced it would spin off its cloud business and combine it with Ekso Bionics . Shares of the latter company, which has a market cap of just $18.5 million, rallied 51%. Meta…
Two Xiaomi electric car models in different colors are pictured here on Nov. 2, 2025. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s electric car boom is ending in 2025 on a soft note, with sales dipping and analysts warning that a fierce price war is likely to persist. Not only did Tesla see its sales drop by 7.4% from…
Check out some of the stocks making the biggest moves in midday trading. Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical – Shares cratered more than 40% after Ultragenyx announced that its bone disease drug setrusumab fell short of expectations in two trials. “Neither study achieved its primary endpoint of reduction in annualized clinical fracture rate compared to placebo or bisphosphonates,”…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: DigitalBridge — The private equity firm that invests in data centers and other assets surged more than 32% after Bloomberg News, citing unnamed sources, said Japan’s SoftBank is in advanced talks to acquire DigitalBridge. The deal could be announced as soon as Monday, Bloomberg reported. Nvidia…
A selection of one kilogram silver bars at Conclude Zrt bullion dealer arranged in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Akos Stiller | Bloomberg | Getty Images One of the best trades of the year just staged a massive reversal overnight. Silver slid more than 3% on Monday, after topping $80 an ounce for…
This photo taken on February 2, 2024 shows Lu Yu, head of Product Management and Operations of Wantalk, an artificial intelligence chatbot created by Chinese tech company Baidu, showing a virtual girlfriend profile on her phone, at the Baidu headquarters in Beijing. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — China plans to restrict…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Freeport-McMoRan — The miner rose 3.1% as gold and other metals scaled to record levels. Target — The retailer rose more than 1% after The Financial Times reported, citing sources, that hedge fund Toms Capital Investment Management made a big investment in Target. Pressure from the…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Nvidia — The semiconductor firm’s stock rose 0.5% after it agreed to pay $20 billion to acquire assets from artificial intelligence startup Groq, marking its largest purchase ever. Micron Technology , SanDisk — The digital memory firms’ stocks were up after DigiTimes reported , citing industry…