Moderna (MRNA) earnings Q4 2023

Moderna (MRNA) earnings Q4 2023

Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday posted a surprise quarterly profit, in part boosted by deferred revenue, even as the company saw slumping sales from its Covid vaccine, its only marketable product.  The results cap a rocky year for the biotech company and other Covid vaccine makers, which all saw revenue plunge … Read more

Fed minutes January 2024:

Fed minutes January 2024:

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Dec. 13, 2023. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve officials indicated at their last meeting that they were in no hurry to cut interest rates and expressed both optimism and caution … Read more

Crown Castle co-founder launches proxy fight, challenges Elliott agreement

Crown Castle co-founder launches proxy fight, challenges Elliott agreement

Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty Images A co-founder of telecommunications company Crown Castle has nominated a rival slate of directors to the firm’s board, muddying the waters months after activist investor Elliott Management and Crown Castle signed a cooperation agreement. Ted Miller, who helped launch the company in 1994, along with his investment vehicle … Read more

AbbVie taps Robert Michael as CEO, succeeding Richard Gonzalez

AbbVie taps Robert Michael as CEO, succeeding Richard Gonzalez

Test tubes are seen in front of a displayed AbbVie logo in this illustration taken on May 21, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters AbbVie on Tuesday said longtime executive Robert Michael will become the company’s new CEO, replacing Richard Gonzalez.  Michael, who is AbbVie’s president and chief operating officer, will become the company’s second-ever CEO … Read more

Macy’s activist Arkhouse launches proxy fight with nine directors

Macy’s activist Arkhouse launches proxy fight with nine directors

Customers visit Macy’s Herald Square store on December 17, 2023 in New York City.  Kena Betancur | Corbis News | Getty Images Investment firm Arkhouse Management has launched a proxy fight at Macy’s, nominating a slate of nine directors for election to the department store’s board. Macy’s on Tuesday confirmed that it had received notice … Read more

January wholesale prices rise more than expected, another sign of persistent inflation

January wholesale prices rise more than expected, another sign of persistent inflation

Customers shop at a Costco Wholesale store on December 15, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Wholesale prices rose more than expected in January, further complicating the inflation picture, according to a Labor Department report Friday. The producer price index, a measure of prices received by producers of … Read more

Twilio begins Segment operational review after activist attention

Twilio begins Segment operational review after activist attention

Jeff Lawson, (C) Founder, CEO, & Chairman of Communications software provider Twilio Inc., rings the opening bell to celebrate his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, June 23, 2016. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Twilio announced alongside its fiscal fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday it would begin an operational review … Read more

Biogen (BIIB) earnings Q4 2023

Biogen (BIIB) earnings Q4 2023

Biogen on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and profit that shrank from a year ago, as it recorded charges related to dropping its controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm and as sales slumped in its multiple sclerosis therapies, the company’s biggest drug category. Biogen booked sales of $2.39 billion for the quarter, down 6% from the same period a … Read more

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly are tackling supply issues

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly are tackling supply issues

Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023. Victoria Klesty | Reuters The insatiable demand for weight loss drugs is trouncing supply, leaving many patients struggling to find the injectable treatments.  The dominant weight loss drugmakers, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, have said … Read more

Inflation in December was even lower than first reported, the government says

Inflation in December was even lower than first reported, the government says

People shop in a supermarket in the Manhattan borough of New York city on January 27, 2024. Charly Triballeau | AFP | Getty Images The prices consumers pay in the marketplace rose at an even slower pace than originally reported, according to closely watched revisions the government released Friday. Updates to the consumer price index … Read more