Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles

Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles

Jeff Lawson, founder, CEO and chairman of Twilio, speaks at a press conference during the Mobile World Congress on March 1, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis | Corbis News | Getty Images Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson on Monday said he is stepping down as CEO of the enterprise communications software company. The move … Read more

J&J to acquire Ambrx Biopharma, a cancer drug developer, for $2B

J&J to acquire Ambrx Biopharma, a cancer drug developer, for B

An entry sign to the Johnson & Johnson campus shows their logo in Irvine, California on August 28, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson on Monday said it will pay $2 billion in cash to acquire Ambrx Biopharma, a drugmaker specializing in one of the hottest areas of cancer treatment. … Read more

Moderna Covid vaccine sales plunge in 2023, but meet company forecast

Moderna Covid vaccine sales plunge in 2023, but meet company forecast

Nikos Pekiaridis | Lightrocket | Getty Images Moderna on Monday said its Covid vaccine sales plunged by about two-thirds in 2023 to $6.7 billion, as fewer people rolled up their sleeves for an updated version of the jab. The revenue from the shots met Moderna’s forecast for the year, even as sales plummeted from the … Read more

Eli Lilly weight loss drug site may not upend industry

Eli Lilly weight loss drug site may not upend industry

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Eli Lilly is shaking up the pharmaceutical industry with a new website offering telehealth prescriptions and direct home delivery of certain drugs, including its red-hot weight loss treatment Zepbound, to expand patient access.  The company’s direct-to-consumer push announced Thursday, the first of its kind for a big drugmaker, … Read more

Payrolls increased by 216,000 in December

Payrolls increased by 216,000 in December

The U.S. labor market closed out 2023 in strong shape as the pace of hiring was even more powerful than expected, the Labor Department reported Friday. December’s jobs report showed employers added 216,000 jobs for the month while the unemployment rate held at 3.7%. Payroll growth showed a sizeable gain from November’s downwardly revised 173,000. … Read more

Walgreens (WBA) earnings Q1 2024

Walgreens (WBA) earnings Q1 2024

Shares of Walgreens fell more than 11% on Thursday after the company reported fiscal first-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue that topped expectations, but cut its quarterly dividend nearly in half.  The retail pharmacy giant slashed its dividend to 25 cents per share from 48 cents per share to “strengthen [its] long-term balance sheet and cash position,” … Read more

Mobileye shares plunge after chipmaker warns of order pullback

Mobileye shares plunge after chipmaker warns of order pullback

Mobileye signage is displayed during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on Oct. 26, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mobileye, the self-driving technology company majority owned by Intel, warned on Thursday that it expected that customer orders would drop off dramatically for the first quarter of … Read more

Private payrolls added 164,000 in December, beating expectations, ADP says

Private payrolls added 164,000 in December, beating expectations, ADP says

A worker at a restaurant at Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.  Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hiring in the private sector rose at a faster than expected pace in December, closing out a strong 2023 for the resilient U.S. jobs market, ADP reported Thursday. Private … Read more

Rate cuts likely, but path highly uncertain

Rate cuts likely, but path highly uncertain

Federal Reserve officials in December concluded that interest rate cuts are likely in 2024, though they appeared to provide little in the way of when that might occur, according to minutes from the meeting released Wednesday. At the meeting, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee agreed to hold its benchmark rate steady in a range … Read more

Fed’s Barkin sees likely soft landing ahead but notes rate hikes still a possibility

Fed’s Barkin sees likely soft landing ahead but notes rate hikes still a possibility

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin poses during a break at a Dallas Fed conference on technology in Dallas, Texas, May 23, 2019. Ann Saphir | Reuters Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin on Wednesday expressed confidence that the economy is on its way to a soft landing, but obstacles remain that will … Read more