KLA Corp. shares ticked higher in the extended session Wednesday after the chip-making equipment company’s results and forecast came in above Wall Street estimates.
The number of global confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 headed closer to 104 million on Wednesday with the U.S. accounting for 26.4 million of that tally, as it recorded another grim day of more than 3,000 fatalities.
European threats to tax digital services must be countered with a proposal to end all tax havens for multinational corporations, wherever they are based.
The S&P 500 earnings recession is now set to end, as bottom-line results for the fourth quarter have swung to growth for the first time in a year as more companies are beating expectations, by bigger margins, than usual.
Scott Peng, the founder and chief investment officer of New York investment manager Advocate Capital Management, says a perfect storm is being unleashed.
Scott Peng, the founder and chief investment officer of New York investment manager Advocate Capital Management, says a perfect storm is being unleashed.
Gold prices trade higher Wednesday, with investors attributing its early, modest rise to an attempted recovery from selling in the precious metal and its sister commodity silver.
U.S. private companies added 174,000 jobs in January after shedding workers in the prior month, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.
Technology shares are poised to extend gains on Wall Street on Tuesday, but Dow futures pointed to a struggle for the blue-chip index, as investors parsed healthy earnings from some of the country’s tech titans, including Amazon.com and Google parent Alphabet in the second-busiest week for earnings of the fourth quarter.