Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading: Joby Aviation — Shares of the electric air taxi maker plunged 11% after the company announced the pricing of a previously announced stock offering. Joby will sell 30,500,000 common shares for $16.85 each, translating to gross proceeds of around $513.9 million. AST SpaceMobile — Shares surged 11% after the company announced a deal with Verizon to provide its customers with cell service from space starting in 2026. Verizon shares added 0.7%. Trilogy Metals — U.S.-listed shares of the Canadian minerals explorer jumped 8%, a day after surging more than 200% on…
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The stock market may have just hit another record high , but JPMorgan thinks betting against publicly traded companies such as Shake Shack and Snap could boost investor portfolios into the end of the year. U.S. stocks climbed Wednesday as investors awaited the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s September meeting. The S & P 500 was trading 0.6% higher on the day, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite shot up nearly 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.17% in intraday trading, reversing its losses from the previous day . Still, several short-selling opportunities abound for investors,…
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a flag-raising ceremony for the latest Project 955A (Borey-A) strategic nuclear-powered submarine Knyaz Pozharsky in Severodvinsk on July 24, 2025.Alexander Kazakov | Afp | Getty ImagesEurope has to confront the reality of the “hybrid warfare” being waged against it, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, telling EU lawmakers that a series of incidents was “not random harassment” but part of a concerted campaign to unsettle and weaken the bloc.Recent drone and airspace incursions, cyberattacks and election interference were just a few…
U.S. President Donald Trump, with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, participates in a roundtable on “Antifa,” an anti-fascist movement he designated a domestic “terrorist organization” via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said on Wednesday he may travel to Egypt this weekend as his negotiators seek to seal a Gaza hostages-for-ceasefire deal.Trump said at the White House that a deal is “very close,” and that he may depart Saturday for the region. He spoke after talking to his team…
Mergers-and-acquisitions activity globally is roaring back to life, with several megadeals in the third quarter building on momentum from earlier this year. When Donald Trump returned to the White House, markets expected a deregulatory wave and tax-friendly environment to spark a dealmaking surge. However, recession fears, geopolitical flashpoints and tariffs concerns kept boardrooms a bit cautious. Now, they appear to have put aside those worries for good, leading to a sharp surge in M & As, buoyed by rate-cut expectations and elevated levels of private-equity “dry powder.” According to data provided by financial markets platform Dealogic, the third-quarter saw a…
Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave participates in an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Sept. 22, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCoreWeave shares rose 8.7% Wednesday as the artificial intelligence cloud provider announced new tools to help programmers develop AI agents.With the new serverless reinforcement learning service, there’s no need to worry about adding or removing computing power, because it happens automatically.Tests indicated that when developers use CoreWeave’s new service, they can train models faster with 40% lower costs in comparison with running Nvidia H100 graphics processing units locally,…
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what’s driving the world’s second-largest economy. You can subscribe here.The big storyForeign investors have struggled to decipher if China can deliver the kind of returns that once seemed assured, especially in the fickle world of consumer brands.That caution loomed large at the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore last week: With a population of 1.4 billion, China’s potential consumer demand remains too vast to overlook — but increasingly difficult to read.Chinese households have tightened their belts, cutting back on nonessential spending and becoming,…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: TopBuild — The insulation installer rallied almost 8% after agreeing to buy Specialty Products and Insulation for $1 billion in cash . “The addition of SPI’s resources and capabilities further enhances our customer value proposition while its complementary fabrication footprint strengthens and expands our presence across North America,” TopBuild CEO Robert Buck said in a statement. Confluent — The data infrastructure platform jumped 9% after Reuters reported it’s considering a sale after attracting takeover interest. Reuters cited unnamed people familiar with the matter saying a possible sale began after private equity…
Some of the market’s more beaten-down names may have further to fall as investors start cutting their losses to save on taxes, according to Morgan Stanley. Stocks have reached new highs this year, with the gains largely powered by tech companies and demand for artificial intelligence. Still, many were left out of the rally. Now, with the end of the year approaching, investors are assessing their winners and losers. “A common point of discussion heading into 4Q (when the taxable year ends for many investors) is which stocks might be subject to a bit of extra selling pressure as investors…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable about “Antifa,” an anti-fascist movement he designated a domestic “terrorist organization” in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 8, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night stateside that Israel and Hamas had agreed on the first phase of a peace plan which could put an end to the two-year war and free hostages.”ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a…
