By Aaron Portzline, Sean Gentille and Hailey SalvianColumbus Blue Jackets left winger Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, were killed in a traffic crash Thursday in Oldmans Township, N.J., outside Philadelphia, New Jersey State Police said.Police said the Gaudreau brothers were riding bicycles on County Route 551 when they were hit by the driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that was trying to pass an SUV on a two-lane road. The SUV had moved to the center of the road to pass the brothers on their bicycles, who were on the SUV’s right side. The driver of the Jeep then…
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Jaque Silva | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesBrazil’s supreme court on Friday ordered a nationwide suspension of Elon Musk’s social network X after the company vowed to defy earlier court orders concerning content moderation and the appointment of a legal representative in Brazil.The court’s top judge, Alexandre de Moraes, has also ordered daily fines for people or businesses in Brazil that use VPNs or other methods to access X while the site is banned in the country, G1 Globo reported.The court issued a statement via its government website in Brazil on Friday, saying that it had ordered “the…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Nvidia — The chip designer and artificial intelligence bellwether slipped more than 4% despite surpassing Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom line in its fiscal second quarter. Nvidia earned 68 cents per share on revenue of $30.04 billion, while analysts polled by LSEG forecast 64 cents and $28.7 billion. The company’s third-quarter revenue outlook, which would represent 80% growth compared to the same period a year ago, failed to meet the higher end of investor’s expectations and would mark a slowdown vs the July quarter. Salesforce — Shares jumped…
Best Buy ‘s quarterly beat and guidance raise on Thursday was good for a 15% pop in the stock as investors rewarded better execution and the promise of wider adoption of AI devices and lower interest rates. Revenue in the company’s fiscal 2025 second quarter fell 3.1% year over year to $9.29 billion in the three months ended July 29, outpacing the $9.24 billion expected by analysts, according to estimates compiled by LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share of $1.34 rose 9.8% on an annual basis, topping the $1.16 predicted by analysts, LSEG data showed. BBY YTD mountain Best Buy YTD…
A handful of stocks could be poised for a strong September as they head toward what investors rtpically regard as a bullish price chart pattern. Stocks have rebounded from a sluggish start to August the month and ended with gains for all three major indexes. The By late Friday, the S & P 500 had advanced about 1.9% this month, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.5% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.2%. Gains in the S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite on Friday followed a report on July personal consumption expenditures prices, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailBespoke’s Paul Hickey and Jefferies’ David Zervos join ‘Taking Stock’ to talk the biggest drivers behind the market this week.10:59Fri, Aug 23 20246:53 PM EDT Source link
A vial labelled “Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine” is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022. Dado Ruvic | ReutersThe Food and Drug Administration authorized Novavax’s updated protein-based Covid vaccine for emergency use in people ages 12 and up on Friday, paving the way for the shot to compete with Pfizer and Moderna’s jabs this fall and winter. Novavax’s vaccine targets the highly contagious omicron subvariant JN.1, which began circulating widely in the U.S. earlier this year. JN.1 only accounted for 0.2% of cases circulating nationwide as of this week, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Novavax manufactures…
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersCompanies are increasing access to new blockbuster weight-loss drugs for employees, but size of employer may make a big difference in early access. Small businesses and their workers are often stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to this burgeoning health insurance coverage market.Small businesses employ roughly half of the workers in the U.S. labor market, and they have been adding jobs at a faster pace than large employers. Since the first quarter of…
WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, former president Donald Trump has rallied voters around a cry to cut the size of the federal government and “drain the swamp.”But now one Republican running in a key House race is trying to distance himself from the proposed cuts, and from Trump’s plan to move 100,000 federal workers out of the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area while firing “rogue bureaucrats” – policies that could cost the area’s economy billions of dollars.Derrick Anderson is the Republican nominee running in a competitive race to represent Virginia’s seventh congressional district in the House. The district has almost 60,000 federal employees…
Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a keynote speech during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Albert GeaAlbert Gea | ReutersFrench prosecutors on Wednesday charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling criminal activity on the messaging platform and placed him under formal investigation following his arrest Saturday.In a statement, the Paris Prosecutors’ Office said that Durov was indicted of all charges unveiled earlier this week in a statement from prosecutors. They included complicity in the administration of an online platform to enable an illicit transaction, in an organized gang — a charge which, on…
