The Alibaba office building is seen in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug 28, 2024. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba shares surged in Hong Kong Friday following stellar quarterly results, boosted by growth in the company’s cloud Intelligence and e-commerce segments. The Chinese tech giant’s shares soared as much as as 11%, … Read more
Signage at the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. offices in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Alibaba’s overhaul could serve as a template for a restructuring of China Tech itself: a shake-up that achieves Beijings aim of carving up the countrys tech titans while unlocking potentially billions of dollars in pent-up shareholder value. Bloomberg | … Read more
Walmart shares fell roughly 6% in early trading Thursday, as the big-box retailer said profit growth will slow this fiscal year even as sales continue to climb. Walmart said holiday-quarter revenue rose about 4% and e-commerce sales shot up 20% in the U.S., as growth in store pickup and home deliveries and gains with upper-income … Read more
A view of the logo of HSBC bank on a wall outside a branch in Mexico City, Mexico June 14, 2024. Henry Romero | Reuters Europe’s largest lender HSBC on Wednesday announced a share buyback of up to $2 billion as its annual pre-tax profit rose 6.5%, helped by the sale of its banking business … Read more
McDonald’s on Monday reported disappointing quarterly revenue, dragged down by weaker-than-expected sales at its U.S. restaurants following an E. coli outbreak just weeks into the quarter. Shares of the company fell less than 1% in premarket trading. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts … Read more
Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs … Read more
Sweden’s Volvo Cars on Thursday reported a 12% rise in full-year operating income and record revenue, but warned of severe market challenges ahead from intensifying electric vehicle competition and global tariffs. The automaker, which is majority-owned by China’s Geely Holding, said operating income came in at 22.3 billion Swedish kronor ($2.04 billion) in 2024 amid an … Read more
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images If investors were to judge the stability of the economy by looking at the stock market, its two-day winning streak might lead investors to think that it’s business as usual. The market’s … Read more
The Ferrari F50 at Salon Prive London, held at the Royal Chelsea Hospital. Martyn Lucy | Getty Images News | Getty Images Luxury carmaker Ferrari on Tuesday reported a significant upswing in full-year net profit, citing a strong product mix and growing demand for personal touches to its vehicles. Ferrari posted net profit of 1.53 … Read more
Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., during a Bloomberg Technology television interview during the FoundryCon event in Palo Alto, California, US, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir shares surged as much as 23% in extended trading on Monday after the software company reported fourth-quarter … Read more