The HSBC Holding logo is being displayed on a smartphone with HSBC visible in the background in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on February 20, 2024. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images HSBC beat market expectations in its first quarter earnings report on Tuesday, and announced the surprise departure of Group Chief … Read more
Check out the companies making headlines in after hours trading. Paramount Global — Shares rose less than 1% after the parent of CBS television said its CEO Bob Bakish would step down and be replaced by an “office of the CEO.” The news comes as Paramount posted per-share earnings of 62 cents, topping the 36 … Read more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. SoFi Technologies — The consumer fintech company’s stock price plunged about 10% on disappointing second-quarter earnings guidance. SoFi forecast adjusted revenue between $555 million and $565 million and net income of $5 million to $10 million, while analysts polled by FactSet had called for $580.8 million in … Read more
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters BEIJING — Local Chinese authorities have removed restrictions on Tesla cars … Read more
Invert sugar, the culinary and industrial world’s unsung hero, is a sweetener derived from a surprising transformation. Through a process called hydrolysis, regular table sugar (sucrose) undergoes a breakdown into its simpler components: glucose and fructose, in a perfect 1:1 ratio. This conversion, typically achieved with controlled heating and the addition of acid or enzymes … Read more
Residential buildings under construction at the Phoenix Palace project, developed by Country Garden Holdings Co., in Heyuan, Guangdong province, China in September 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s state-directed economy may be creating the conditions for a new wave of bond defaults that could come as soon as next year, according … Read more
ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told … Read more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Boeing — Shares jumped 3% after Boeing posted a narrower-than-expected loss in its latest results. In its first quarter, the company reported an adjusted loss of $1.13 per share, better than the adjusted loss of $1.76 per share estimated by the LSEG analyst poll. Revenue of … Read more
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Align Technology — The orthodontics technology company added 3.6% after beating analysts’ expectations for its first-quarter results. Align posted adjusted earnings of $2.14 per share on revenue of $997.4 million, higher than the $1.97 in earnings per share on revenue of $974 million that analysts … Read more
Nio Founder and CEO William Li poses outside of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate his company’s IPO. Photo: NYSE BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-ups Nio and Xpeng are turning to a lower-priced segment of the market with plans to release newly branded cars this year. Nio’s first such mass market car will … Read more