(Reuters) – E-commerce firm eBay forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling weak demand for products such as collector’s items and refurbished goods, sending its shares down 7% in extended trading. High interest rates and persistent inflation have hampered U.S. consumer spending for two years, leading to sluggish demand for non-essential items…
(Reuters) -Paramount Global fell short of Wall Street’s fourth-quarter revenue expectations on Wednesday as a continued decline in its cable TV unit clouded higher-than-expected subscriber growth for its Paramount+ streaming platform. Shares of the company fell 1.5% in extended trading. Media giants are reshaping their business strategies in response to the continued erosion of cable…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – CRH forecast core profit growth of 6% to 12% in 2025 after the largest building materials producer in the United States and Europe posted 12% growth for 2024 on Wednesday, in line with its guidance. The Irish-based, U.S.-listed firm, which makes about 75% of its profit in the U.S., expects 2025 full-year…
By Max A. Cherney, Arsheeya Bajwa and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Nvidia forecast higher first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, signalling continued strong demand for artificial intelligence chips, and said orders for its new Blackwell semiconductors were “amazing.” The company’s forecast helps allay doubts around a slowdown in spending on its hardware that emerged last month, following…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A leading attorney for billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk and embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams now has a standard billing rate of $3,000 an hour, placing him on the top shelf among even the priciest of Manhattan lawyers. Alex Spiro, known for his high-profile clientele and relentless litigation style,…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – BHP will move forward with a $2 billion plan to optimize its concentrator at Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, as part of its investment plan in Chile, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. BHP said the optimization is the first initiative of its decade-long $10.8 billion investment plan it…
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. banking sector profits rose 2.3% to $66.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, a bank regulator reported on Tuesday, as it also announced moves to update how so-called problem banks are tracked. In its latest quarterly report, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said it is revising its…
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Tesla’s stock tumbled 8% on Tuesday, pushing its market value below $1 trillion for the first time since November after data showed the electric car maker’s sales slumped in Europe in January. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association reported that Tesla sales dropped 45% in Europe, compared with a 37% jump…
By Aditya Soni (Reuters) – Microsoft has scrapped leases for sizeable data center capacity in the U.S., suggesting a potential oversupply at the tech giant as it builds out artificial intelligence infrastructure to meet a possible surge in demand, TD Cowen said. Skepticism has been growing among investors over the billions of dollars U.S. tech…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway shares rose to a record on Monday after the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett posted its highest-ever quarterly profit, driven by improvement in insurance operations. The price of Berkshire’s Class A shares rose as much as 4.3% to $749,611 by early afternoon, NYSE data show. That surpassed even…
