Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, appears on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024.Adam Galici | CNBCNikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining Uber’s board of directors, the company announced in a regulatory filing Wednesday.It comes amid a broader executive shakeup this week at the ride-hailing company, which saw head of delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty depart after 13 years. Andrew Macdonald, head of mobility, was promoted to president and chief operating officer, Uber’s first since 2019.”I’m honored to join Uber’s Board at such an exciting time, as the…
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A man reads a note placed on a memorial at the scene of an attack that injured multiple people, outside the Boulder County Courthouse, in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 2, 2025.Mark Makela | ReutersA federal judge on Wednesday barred the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, the Egyptian national accused of attacking a group of demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails.The order blocking the removal of Soliman’s family came a day after they were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents. The White House’s official X…
The App Store logo is seen next to the Epic Games Store logo on two screens. Epic, maker of the popular game “Fortnite,” wants to sell digital items in its apps without giving a cut of the purchase price to Apple.Fabian Summer | picture alliance | Getty ImagesApple was dealt a blow in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday, as a panel of judges denied the company’s emergency application to halt changes to its App Store that resulted from the company’s legal battle with Epic Games.Apple “bears the burden of showing that the circumstances justify…
One sector that was seen as a potential winner of the Trump administration is starting to cool, even as some of the projected benefits seem to be materializing. Wolfe Research analyst Rob Ginsberg wrote in a note to clients that financials are showing signs of weakness. The group is still outperforming the S & P 500 year to date, but the gap has been closing in recent weeks. “The sector peaked on a relative basis in April and has been leaking lower since. The most concerning group in our view? Capital Market names,” Ginsberg wrote, referring especially to financial exchanges…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Five Below — Shares of the discount retailer added 2.5% on the back of strong first-quarter financial results and second-quarter guidance. Five Below reported adjusted earnings of 86 cents per share on $971 million in revenue, while analysts polled by LSEG called for 82 cents per share on $967 million. Five Below’s Chief Financial Officer Kristy Chipman is also leaving the company . MongoDB — The database software maker’s stock popped almost 12% in after-hours trading. MongoDB beat on top and bottom lines and lifted its fiscal 2026 outlook. The company…
Citi has downgraded Constellation Energy after the power company signed a major deal with Meta that indicates nuclear plant owners might not receive that high of a price premium for their electricity. Meta agreed to buy about 1.1 gigawatts of power from the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois for a 20-year period that begins in 2027. Constellation stock rose as much as 9% intraday Tuesday on the deal, before closing slightly lower at $313.03 per share. Citi now rates Constellation as neutral and high risk, setting a stock price target of $318, which implies upside of less than 2%.…
Rebecca Walser, CEO of Walser Wealth Management, joined CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Wednesday to discuss Apple following a notable downgrade, as well as Netflix and Snowflake . Here’s what she had to say about each technology name during the ” Three-Stock Lunch ” segment. Apple Walser said she agreed with Needham analyst Laura Martin, who downgraded shares of the personal technology giant to hold from buy on Wednesday. Martin said the company is facing relatively high valuation and growth competition. Walser said concerns over President Donald Trump’s tariffs have weighed on the iPhone maker, with investors wondering what’s next following…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport, where he announced the reopening of a major runway at the airport, nearly two weeks ahead of schedule on June 2, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThe future of a high-speed rail project in California is under threat after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the project has violated some terms of its federal grant agreements.The California High-Speed Rail Authority “has no viable path to complete this project on time or on budget,” Duffy said in a Wednesday statement.”CHSRA is on notice — if…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at a company event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon has formed a new group within its consumer product-development arm that is focused on agentic artificial intelligence, the company said Wednesday.The team will be based in Lab126, the stealthy Silicon Valley-based research and development unit behind the Kindle e-reader, Echo smart speaker and other popular Amazon devices.A growing number of companies are building AI agents as they look beyond text and image generators. In contrast to AI services such as chatbots, agents are capable of completing multistep, complex…
The real estate sector has been a lackluster performer in recent weeks, but some dividend-paying stocks in the group could be showing signs of promise, according to Wolfe Research. While the S & P 500 was up more than 6% in May, the real estate sector only advanced about 0.9% in that time. Real estate’s performance last month coincided with a volatile period for longer-dated Treasurys, including the 10-year note, as investors grappled with shakiness around tariff policy and deficit worries as the House of Representatives cleared a massive tax and spending bill . The 10-year Treasury is closely tied…