Adani selloff worsens after cancellation of $2.5 billion share sale
Shares of Adani Group companies continued their multi-day plunge Thursday, hours after the Indian conglomerate cancelled an up-to-$2.5 billion share sale amid a record dive in the stock price of its flagship company. Shares of Adani Enterprises 512599, -7.78% were last down 8.8%, a day after the stock fell more than 28% in its biggest […]
Meta stock spikes despite earnings miss, as Facebook hits 2 billion users for first time and sales guidance quells fears
Meta Platforms Inc. shares soared in after-hours trading Wednesday despite an earnings miss, as the Facebook parent company guided for potentially more revenue than Wall Street expected in the new year and promised more share repurchases amid cost cuts. Meta META, +2.79% said it hauled in $32.17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, down from $33.67 billion […]
Electronic Arts stock plunges more than 10% as mobile versions of popular games shelved amid cuts
Electronic Arts Inc.’s earnings and revenue from the prior year were previously incorrect. They have been updated. Electronic Arts Inc. shares plummeted more than 10% in after-hours trading Tuesday, after executives disclosed disappointing forecasts and announced they are delaying an anticipated title and killing off the mobile versions of two popular games, which is expected […]
UPS foresees ‘mild recession’ in 2023 and posts first revenue decline since the 2008 financial crisis
Shares of United Parcel Service Inc. rallied Tuesday, even after the package-delivery giant reported a surprise decline in fourth-quarter revenue, missing Wall Street expectations for the first time in 12 quarters, and warned of the first yearly decline in revenue in 14 years. Investors expressed relief, however, as UPS beat fourth-quarter profit expectations, raised its […]
IAG shares fall in Australia after massive flooding in New Zealand
SYDNEY — Shares in Insurance Australia Group Ltd. IAG, -3.74% fell early Monday after the general insurer said that claims in New Zealand will likely rise after severe storms and flooding around Auckland, and that it may review its natural peril costs for fiscal 2023. The stock was down 4.5% to 4.88 Australian dollars (US$3.45), […]
Shares of Adani-linked companies slump as Indian conglomerate issues defense to short-seller claims
Stocks of affiliated companies founded by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani continued to fall in Mumbai markets on Friday, extending a slide after a U.S. short seller published its two-year investigation into the group’s business practices. The shares of flagship firm Adani Enterprises 512599, -18.52% sank as much as 20% and other linked companies saw […]
Intel stock drops nearly 10% after earnings miss, execs predict quarterly loss as data-center market shrinks
Intel Corp. shares dropped more than 9% in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker reported a big miss for the fourth quarter, forecast a loss for the first quarter, said the data-center market was contracting and that inventory digestion will gnaw at margins. Intel INTC, +1.31% executives forecast an adjusted loss of 15 […]
Microsoft stock dives into the red after forecast misses, CFO warns about deceleration
Microsoft Corp.’s profit declined more than 12% in the holiday season, and executives said Tuesday that a revenue deceleration at the end of 2022 is expected to continue into the new year as the company lays off workers. Microsoft MSFT Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said in a conference call Tuesday that “we are seeing […]
Ken Griffin’s Citadel made $16 billion last year – the largest annual hedge fund return on record, investor says
Ken Griffin’s U.S. hedge fund Citadel made $16 billion in profit after fees last year – the largest annual gain ever made by a hedge fund manager, an investor has estimated. In a report published on Monday by fund of funds LCH Investments, Citadel topped the top 20 hedge fund manager’s list beating John Paulson’s […]
Elon Musk takes the stand as battle lines drawn in trial over Tesla tweets
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk took the witness stand briefly late Friday in a federal trial in San Francisco over alleged investor losses caused by his “funding secured” tweet and other tweets back in 2018. In his roughly half-hour being questioned by a defense lawyer, Musk lauded Twitter Inc. as the most “democratic” way […]