In this article GME HPE MDB MSFT Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. Charles Platiau | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Thursday. Microsoft — Shares of the technology giant slipped 0.6% after Microsoft cut its earnings and revenue guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter. Microsoft
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In this article FB Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta as one of the highest-profile and most successful women in tech — and after more than $1.7 billion in stock sales. Sandberg announced Wednesday that she is stepping down from her role as chief operating officer after 14 years at Meta, formerly known as Facebook. Sandberg will remain
Chase Coleman, founder of Tiger Global Management LLC Amanda L. Gordon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management suffered huge losses in May amid a tech-driven sell-off, making the hedge fund’s tough 2022 even worse. The growth-focused flagship fund at Tiger Global tumbled 14.3% in May, bringing its 2022 losses to over
JGI/Jamie Grill The Covid-19 pandemic really highlighted how financially troubled our society is. Debt levels are extremely high, bankruptcies are commonplace and many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Today’s adults are suffering and may be setting the next generation up for trouble, as well. Tackling the financial literacy crisis in America begins in the
Professionalstudioimages | Istock | Getty Images The clock is ticking for Congress when it comes to shoring up the Social Security trust funds, according to an annual report released on Thursday by the program’s trustees. Both Social Security and Medicare face long-term financing shortfalls, due to the fact that those programs will grow faster than
In this article F Ford CEO Jim Farley poses next to a model of the all-new Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, April 26, 2022. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT – Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley expects the auto industry’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles
In this article HPE GME CIEN LE DBI HRL Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Hormel (HRL) – Hormel added 1.7% in premarket trading after beating top and bottom-line estimates for its latest quarter. The company behind the Spam, Dinty Moore and Jennie-O food brands backed its earlier full-year sales guidance and
Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph says the “most dispensed advice in the history of mankind” might also be the worst. At Cape Cod Community College’s recent commencement ceremony, Randolph told the class of 2022 that three common graduation speech words — “follow your dreams” — constitute “terrible advice.” “It’s not the advice itself that’s bad,” Randolph,
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | DigitalVision | Getty Images There’s a decent chance you don’t have a good handle on how much your subscriptions are really costing you. Consumers’ offhand guess of how much they spend monthly on subscriptions averaged $86, according to a survey commissioned by market research firm C+R Research. Yet when asked
In this article DIS Ewan McGregor reprises his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the new Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Disney ANAHEIM, California – By the time Oscar-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi’s untitled Star Wars film is set to hit theaters in late 2023, it will have been four years since a tale from a galaxy far,
In this article GME A GameStop location in New York, Dec. 23, 2021. Scott Mlyn | CNBC GameStop reported $1.38 billion in revenue in its fiscal first-quarter earnings report Wednesday, up slightly from the $1.27 billion it reported in the year-ago quarter. But, it also reported a $157.9 million net loss, which is worse than
A WeRide robotaxi with health supplies heads to Liwan district on June 4, 2021, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Southern Metropolis Daily | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — While governments may be wary of driverless cars, people want to buy the technology, and companies want to cash in. It’s a