In its fiscal third-quarter earnings report to investors in late June, pharmacy chain Walgreens announced plans to close a “significant” number of its 8,600 U.S. stores. CEO Tim Wentworth said only 75% of the chain’s locations were making a profit, and that the other one-quarter of them faced the chopping block by 2027. This was … Read more
Stocks had a rough week, topped off with a pummeling Friday after the July jobs data came in weaker than expected. The Nasdaq led the way down, losing 3.35% on the week, followed by the Dow Jones Industrial’s decline of 2.1%, and the S & P 500’s 2.06% drop. It was a dramatic shift in … Read more
People walk through a Manhattan mall on July 05, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Hiring in the U.S. slowed significantly last month, with information and financial sectors registering job losses. The information services sector was a notable weak spot for July, posting a job loss of … Read more
It’s a July for the record books. State Street Global Advisors finds inflows into exchange-traded funds hit $127 billion. Not only was it the best July ever, but the firm’s head of SPDR Americas research notes it is also the second-largest monthly inflow ever. “Part of it is just the market,” Matt Bartolini told CNBC’s … Read more
Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. Grogan Berkshire Hathaway‘s cash pile swelled to a record $276.9 billion last quarter as Warren Buffett sold big chunks in stock holdings including Apple. The Omaha-based conglomerate’s cash hoard jumped … Read more
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumped nearly half of its gigantic Apple stake last quarter in a surprising move for the famously long-term-focused investor. The Omaha-based conglomerate disclosed in its earnings filing that its holding in the iPhone … Read more
The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Covert, Mich. John Madill | The Herald-Palladium | AP The Palisades Power Plant on the shores of Lake Michigan had become a piece of history, a relic of an era when nuclear energy was viewed as the future. The reactor in Covert, Michigan, about 70 miles of southwest of … Read more
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Forceful sell-off: Wall Street was getting slammed in Friday afternoon trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 750 points, or 1.9%. The S … Read more
Coterra Energy missed Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings in the second quarter. However, production volumes and more importantly cash generation both came in ahead of expectations. Revenue in the three months ended June 30 increased 7% year over year to $1.27 billion but came up short versus the $1.33 billion consensus forecast, according … Read more
Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2024. David A. Grogan Berkshire Hathaway‘s highly scrutinized cash pile could top $200 billion — more than the entire annual gross domestic product of Hungary — amid CEO Warren Buffett’s rare sale of some of his favorite stocks. The Omaha-based conglomerate is likely to say its cash … Read more
