Loews Corporation (NYSE: NYSE:L ) reported a net income of $457 million in Q1 2024, a 22% increase from Q1 2023. The company's net income attributable to CNA Financial Corporation improved year-over-year due to higher net investment income and favorable net prior-year loss reserve development. Boardwalk Pipelines' results also improved due to higher revenues from...
Worldcoin ( MIL:WLD ) has surged by 23.6% in the past 24 hours, reaching $6.50 for the first time in three weeks. The asset's market cap is currently at $1.32 billion, making it the 70th-largest digital currency. The daily trading volume of Worldcoin ( MIL:WLD ) recorded a 109% rally, reaching $520 million. The total open interest of Worldcoin ( MIL:WLD )...
Gold prices ( TVC:XAU ) have dwindled following US Nonfarm Payrolls (NBP) data, with the gold price peaked at $2,310 but reversed gains. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that April Nonfarm Payrolls missed estimates, indicating a cooling jobs market. The golden metal edged toward its daily high of $2,310 but failed to crack May 2's high of $2,326,...
Paramount Global ( NASDAQ:PARA ) will end its exclusive talks with Skydance Media without reaching a deal, according to the New York Times. A special committee of Paramount's board evaluated the company's options, but some shareholders were critical of the deal. Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management have expressed interest in acquiring...
Coinbase Global ( NASDAQ:COIN ) and CEO Brian Armstrong are facing a class action lawsuit from complainants claiming that the company misled them into buying securities. The lawsuit argues that digital assets listed on Coinbase are securities, and they also allege that Coinbase Earn accounts violated securities laws by advertising and promoting for higher yields....
Guyana's tax agency is taking Exxon Mobil Corp. ( NYSE:XOM ) to court after one of the company's suppliers claimed it mistakenly inflated the value of oil-well equipment by 200 times to about $12 billion. The Guyana Revenue Authority issued a summons to the oil giant, with a hearing scheduled for May 10. Exxon and Trinidad-based Trinidad-based company Ramps...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged former president Donald Trump's auditor, Benjamin Borgers, with a "massive fraud" and a "sham audit mill." The SEC alleges that Borgers did not properly prepare and maintain audit documentation, fabricated audit planning meetings, and passed off previous audits for the current audit period. The SEC claims...
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has reportedly added Dogecoin ( CRYPTOCAP:DOGE ) as a payment method for some Tesla products, leading to a 20% increase in the CRYPTOCAP:DOGE price. The move follows a month-long hindrance by Musk about accepting Dogecoin as an official form of payment for Tesla vehicles. Traders immediately responded to the news, with the DOGE price...
Berkshire Hathaway's ( LSE:BRK ) Q1 operating earnings rose 39% to $11.22 billion, driven by robust insurance and investment income. The Omaha-based company reported a 39% increase from $8.065 billion in the year-ago quarter. At the end of the quarter, approximately 75% of the aggregate fair value was concentrated in five companies. In Q1 net earnings, investment...
Wayfair ( NYSE:W ) reported a Q1 non-GAAP loss of 32 cents per share, narrower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 45 cents per share. The company reported a loss of $1.13 per share in the year-ago quarter. Net revenues of $2.73 billion surpassed the consensus mark by 3.3%, with the top line decreasing 1.6% year over year. LTM net revenues per active customer...
Dogwifhat ( CRYPTOCAP:WIF ), a meme coin, has risen nearly 10% to become the largest gainer among the top nine Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) networks, Optimism and Arbitrum. The rise in Dogwifhat's price follows the recent surge of Pepe ( CRYPTOCAP:PEPE ) and Cat in a Dogs World ($MEW), as Solana-based meme coins lead the sector. Solana's fast and scalable blockchain...
Bitcoin's price has breached the $64,000 threshold, causing over $175 million in total liquidations. Over $150 million in shorts position were wiped out, with Binance seeing the most liquidations, with the largest single order being $5.09 million for the Ethereum/USDT trading pair. The price reached an intra-day high of $64,540 on May 4, and trading volume rose by...
Amneal Pharmaceuticals ( NASDAQ:AMRX ) has announced a $270 million settlement to settle claims related to its alleged contribution to the opioid crisis in the U.S. The agreement, payable over a decade, aims to address a substantial portion of the more than 900 opioid-related lawsuits facing the company. State attorneys general have accused Amneal ( NASDAQ:AMRX )...
Singaporean telehealth provider Mobile-Health Network Solutions ( NASDAQ:MNDR ) has experienced a significant drop in its stock price, dropping 85% to $3.39 a share, below its $4 IPO price. The stock, which surged over 580% in its first weeks of trading, was one of the hottest US IPOs of the year. The telehealth provider's market value was over $925 million at the...
Meta has invested $30 billion in 1 million NVIDIA GPUs to improve its AI model training capabilities and push technological boundaries in AI development. The acquisition, which includes a million GPUs, is one of the largest in the technology industry for such equipment and represents a major milestone in Meta's strategic direction towards the development of...
A US Department of Justice (DoJ) investigation into TD Bank ( NYSE:TD ) is focused on how Chinese drug traffickers and crime groups used Canada's second-largest lender to launder their money from fentanyl sales. The bank disclosed last year that it was cooperating with authorities in an investigation into its anti-money laundering compliance program by the DoJ....
Solana ( CRYPTOCAP:SOL ) has become the top performer among the top 10 crypto tokens, with Popcat (POPCAT) hitting a new all-time high of $0.6100 and market capitalization upwards of $577.58 million. This surge is attributed to the growing popularity of projects launched on the CRYPTOCAP:SOL blockchain, which have consistently posted remarkable success. Meme...
Cloudflare Inc. shares ( NYSE:NET ) fell by 18.35% after the company's second-quarter revenue projections fell short of analysts' expectations. The company estimated revenue to be between $393.5 million and $394.5 million in the second quarter, with the midpoint missing analysts' estimates of $394.5 million. This has raised concerns about the company's ability to...