Category: United States

Royal Ahold Delhaize NV on Wednesday raised its full-year adjusted EPS guidance and announced a new 1 billion euro ($ 1.01 billion) share buyback as it reported a 13% rise in third-quarter net profit. The Dutch grocer AD, +0.81% attributed its performance to positive contributions from comparable sales growth excluding gasoline, foreign currency translation benefits, […]

Voters in Maryland voted to legalize recreational cannabis use Tuesday, becoming the 20th state to make the move, and four more states could join it by the end of the night. Maryland voters were approving a constitutional amendment by a wide margin Tuesday evening — more than 65% of voters were on the pro-pot side […]

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Crypto company shares and funds closed sharply lower on Tuesday as bitcoin dropped briefly to a two-year low, even though the three major U.S. equity indexes ended higher. Bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.17% tumbled to as low as $ 17,484 Tuesday, the lowest level since Nov. 2020, after Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it had […]

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the non-U.S. assets of rival FTX, which faces a “significant liquidity crunch”, according to Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s co-founder and chief executive. Zhao said Binance will be conducting due diligence in the coming days, according to a tweet Tuesday. “There is a […]

Healthcare costs are a top priority for voters ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. About 159 million Americans rely on employer-sponsored coverage, according to a report released this month by KFF, the San Francisco-based healthcare think tank. Across party lines, nearly nine in 10 Americans said a candidate’s plan for reducing healthcare costs is “very important” […]

Bayer AG on Tuesday backed its 2022 financial objectives after third-quarter sales beat expectations and it reported earnings growth in all segments. The German pharmaceutical-and-agricultural company BAYER, +0.39% posted a net profit of 546 million euros ($ 547.2 million) for the period, up from EUR85 million the year prior, when its agricultural division was in […]

Carrefour SA on Tuesday set out a plan to step up investment and maintain annual share buybacks from higher earnings, helped by increased cost savings over the coming years. The French grocer CA, +0.88% is aiming for annual net free cash flow of more than 1.7 billion euros ($ 1.70 billion) by 2026, boosted by […]

Less than three months ago, a bill dedicating $ 80 billion for sweeping technological upgrades, staff additions and more enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service passed with no Republican votes, but a lot of fiery GOP criticism. Republican lawmakers could wind up with a majority in the House of Representatives and Senate after the dust […]

Falling prices for legal weed in the U.S. hung over third-quarter results of cannabis producers Curaleaf Holdings Inc. and Acreage Holdings Inc. on Monday, with both reporting a drag on financials in one way or another. Curaleaf CURLF, -3.43% executives, during the company’s earnings call Monday, said they were cutting hours in stores and cutting […]

“ “During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.”” — Yevgeny Prigozhin on Russia’s involvement in U.S. elections Russian Oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin said Russia interfered in past U.S. elections, and said it continues to interfere in U.S. politics. “We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere,” Prigozhin […]

Moe, Larry and Curly’s latest brilliant idea to retire in luxury is to buy as many Powerball tickets as they can ahead of tonight’s drawing. “Look,” says Moe, as he explains the theory to me over a coffee. “The jackpot’s up to $ 1.9 billion, right?” “OK,” I say.  “And each ticket gives you a […]

Gasoline prices have started to hit the brakes, but it has been full steam ahead for diesel, with U.S. supplies of the fuel used in freight transportation and agriculture dropping to their lowest on record for this time of year. That has kept U.S. diesel prices high at the pump, with a gain of more than 8% […]

Scores of high-profile government officials, corporate interests and protestors converage by Egypt’s Red Sea for the next two weeks, charged with quickening the progress in curbing costly and deadly global warming. And they meet, under the banner of another United Nations Conference of Parties, this one COP27, faced with the pressing crises of food and […]

U.S. stock futures rose even as short-term Treasury yields hovered near their highest since 2007 after last week’s Fed rate hike, a relatively robust jobs report and ahead of important inflation data. How are stock index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.40% rose 10 points, or 0.3%, to 3,789 Dow futures YM00, +0.42% added […]

Ryanair Holdings PLC said Monday that it swung to a net profit for the first half of fiscal 2023 as traffic recovered strongly in the period, but that recovery for the rest of the year remained fragile. The Irish low-cost carrier s RYA, +1.15% aid the recovery could still be hurt by new Covid-19 variants […]

BEIJING — China’s exports unexpectedly fell in October, dragged by weakening global demand, official data showed Monday. Outbound shipments declined 0.3% in October from a year earlier, compared with 5.7% growth recorded in September, according to China’s General Administration of Customs. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected 4.0% growth in exports. Imports […]

SYDNEY — Coronado Global Resources Inc. and Peabody Energy Corp. mutually agreed to end talks over combining to create a new global coal giant. Australia-listed Coronado CRN, -7.27%, which also has operations in the U.S., and Peabody BTU, +13.21% on Monday both said they had ended discussions over a combination that would have created a […]

Twitter Inc. will delay its launch of its new blue-checkmark system until after the midterm elections, according to a new report. The new plan for Twitter Blue, unveiled Saturday, will allow any user who pays $ 8 a month to receive a checkmark, which previously had signified a verified account and was given for free […]

Earth is getting warmer and its oceans rising faster than just a few decades ago, the United Nations’ chief meteorological arm said in a Sunday report that serves as a motivational backdrop to the hundreds of officials gathering in Egypt to keep up pressure on climate-change efforts. The annual report from the World Meteorological Organization didn’t […]