Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. were gaining around 3 percent in the early morning trading on the NYSE after the telecom major on Monday lifted fiscal 2026 adjusted earnings outlook after reporting higher profit and revenues for its first quarter. The company said it achieved highest quarterly adjusted EBITDA in company history, and delivered its first positive first-quarter postpaid phone..
Domino's Pizza, Inc., the largest pizza company in the world, Monday reported weak profit in its first quarter, despite growth in revenues and same store sales with improved performance mainly in U.S. stores. In pre-market activity, the shares were losing around 4.07 percent. CEO Russell Weiner stated, "Q1 2026 represented another quarter of positive order count and market share growth..."
Aerospace major Boeing Co. (BA) reported on Wednesday a net loss for the first quarter that narrowed from last year, reflecting a 14 percent revenue growth amid higher commercial delivery volumes, improved operational performance, and favorable order timing.
The Bank of Japan will wrap up its monetary policy meeting on Tuesday and then announce its decision on interest rates, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. The BoJ is widely expected to leave its benchmark lending rate unchanged at 0.75 percent. Japan also will see March data...
German consumer sentiment is set to deteriorate sharply in May as income expectations collapsed due to rising inflation amid the war in Iran, the latest results of the NIM Consumer Climate powered by GfK showed Monday. The forward-looking consumer confidence index fell to -33.3 in May from -28.1 in April. This was the lowest score since February 2023.
Japan will on Monday see February results for its leading and coincident indexes, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. The leading index is expected to add 0.3 percent on month, slowing from 1.7 percent in January. The coincident is tilled to fall 1.6 percent on month after...
European Institutions have agreed on a Roadmap to achieve "One Europe, one Market" by the end of 2027. Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, as the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signed the "One Europe, One Market Roadmap On the sidelines of the Informal meeting of Hea
The U.S. Government has imposed sanctions on a Cambodian senator who controls scam compounds throughout the country, as well as 28 individuals and entities in his network, for defrauding Americans. The U.S. Department of the Treasury said Southeast Asian scam operators within this network have stolen...
The Justice Department has announced $300 million in funding to prevent and prosecute fraud and other crimes nationwide. The new Special Attorneys Program notice of funding opportunity will support state, local, Tribal, and territorial prosecuting agencies in designating qualified prosecutors to serve as Special Attorneys within the Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division or Criminal Di
European stocks are seen opening higher on Tuesday, though the upside may remain capped somewhat after reports suggested that U.S. President Donald Trump and his national security team are skeptical of Iran's offer of a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the two-month war, while setting aside...
Asian stock markets are trading mostly lower on Tuesday, following the mixed cues from Wall Street on Monday, as traders remain cautious amid the uncertainty about the opening of the Strait of Hormuz even as crude oil prices keep soaring. Traders also await a series of central bank decisions, including from Japan and the U.S. later in the week. Asian markets closed mixed on Monday.
The Thai Stock market on Monday ended the three-day slide in which it had fallen more than 25 points or 1.8 percent. The Stock Exchange of Thailand now sits just beneath the 1,480-point plateau and it's likely to be rangebound on Tuesday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is unclear amid...
Mixed sentiment prevails as world markets digest the stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks, the looming central bank decisions as well as the corporate earnings releases on the horizon.
Following the strength seen during last Friday's session, stocks may show a lack of direction in early trading on Monday. The major index futures are currently pointing to a roughly flat open for the markets, with the S&P 500 futures down by less than a tenth of a percent. Traders may be reluctant...
Initial signs from the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might open mostly up on Monday. Since there are no progress in the peace talks to settle the Middle East crisis, Oil prices continue to climb. Brent crude futures traded 2.4 percent higher at $107.88 a barrel. WTI crude futures were...
At 8:00 a.m. ET on Monday, premarket trading is seeing notable activity in several stocks (SGMT, CMPX, ORKA, MANE), with early price movements signaling potential opportunities before the opening bell.
Shares of Compass Therapeutics, Inc. (CMPX) tumbled sharply despite encouraging clinical results. The stock is currently trading at $1.87, down $3.15 or 62.67%, on the Nasdaq. It opened at $1.76 after closing the previous session at $5.02. The stock has traded between $1.61 and $6.88 over the past...
April 24, 2026 15:15 ET Economics news flow was relatively light this week even as the conflict in the Middle East continued, raising concerns for policymakers. In the U.S., spending data, initial jobless claims and pending home sales were the highlights. Business confidence in the biggest euro area economy was in focus in Europe. Inflation data from Japan gained attention in Asia.
Weak sentiment prevails in cryptocurrency market amidst anxiety ahead of the looming interest rate decision by Federal Reserve to be announced on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has announced an MFN pricing deal with Regeneron to lower prescription drug prices that Americans pay for some of the world's most innovative drugs, in line with the lowest prices paid by other developed nations, known as the most-favored-nation, or MFN, price. The agreement will provide every State Medicaid program in the country access to MFN drug prices on new Regeneron
President Donald Trump's promise to bring manufacturing back to the United States is delivering the largest re-shoring wave in American history as companies invest trillions to build and expand at home, the White House says. In a press release published on Wednesday, it said after years of career politicians selling out American workers for cheap foreign labor, the American manufacturing comeback
President Donald Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran will be extended until bi-lateral talks to end the Middle East war have progressed. In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump said the goodwill gesture is made at the request of Pakistan, that is mediated the first round of talks in its capital. At the same time, Trump said the blockade of Iranian ports will also continue until Tehran presen
While the geopolitical environment has become markedly more complex, especially with sustained U.S. and Israeli strikes and Iranian counterattacks through March, the regulatory landscape is also evolving, with several notable developments and a couple of first-of-their-kind measures emerging. Now let's take a look at the biotech stocks facing FDA decisions in April 2026.
Revised data released by the University of Michigan on Friday showed consumer sentiment in the U.S. deteriorated by less than previously estimated in April but still hit a record low. The University of Michigan said its consumer sentiment index for April was upwardly revised to 49.8 from the preliminary reading of 47.6. Economists had expected the index to be unrevised.
Russia's central bank reduced its benchmark rate for the eighth consecutive time to contain rising inflation. The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia decided to cut its interest rate by 50 basis points to 14.50 percent. The bank said it will assess the need for further key rate cuts at its upcoming meetings depending on sustainability of inflation slowdown.
UK retail sales grew unexpectedly in March largely due to a rise in fuel sales as motorists stocked up on fuel amid the war in the Middle East, the Office for National Statistics reported Friday. Retail sales increased 0.7 percent on a monthly basis in March, reversing a 0.6 percent fall in February. The increase also exceeded economists' expectations of flat growth.
The U.S. Government has reported tremendous progress in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in combating the epidemic as a whole across the world. The U.S. Department of State has released PEPFAR program data covering the period of July 1, 2025, to September 31, 2025. U.S. Government-supported...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have conducted biotechnology research on Thursday, including a pair of heart studies, exploring cancer therapies, and demonstrating a self-sustaining life-support system. U.S. flight engineer Jessica Meir processed samples of heart stem cells and bacteria that cause pneumonia using a portable glovebag inside the Harmony module. Observations in mic
A new study shows that as more people use electric bikes and scooters, serious head and spine injuries are increasing among both riders and pedestrians in cities. The lead researcher, Hannah Weiss, a neurosurgery doctor in training, said she was shocked by how many patients were coming in with these...
A 2023 review explored whether the length of time poop stays in the body before being passed affects the gut bacteria. They looked at earlier studies involving thousands of people, including both healthy individuals and those with conditions like irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, and liver disease....
Google is setting its sights on a huge investment, potentially reaching $40 billion, in Anthropic, which shows just how fierce the competition for computing power in AI is becoming.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is sounding the alarm about foreign entities, mainly from China, carrying out large-scale operations aimed at stealing capabilities from advanced American AI systems.
The European Union is ramping up its scrutiny of Google, which is part of Alphabet, by urging the tech giant to let competing AI assistants have more access to its Android operating system.
Indian shares opened on a muted note on Tuesday after it emerged that U.S. President Donald Trump and his national security team are skeptical of Iran's offer of a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the two-month war, while setting aside nuclear negotiations for later. The benchmark BSE...