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Stock-market weakness in the first quarter of 2025 knocked some retirement investors out of the millionaires club, but it didn’t stop workers from saving. Source link
The Toyota Industries Corp. logo at the company’s Nagakusa plant in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Toyota Industries slumped as much as 13% Wednesday, after Toyota Group’s reported 4.7 trillion yen ($33 billion) deal to take the company private.That includes a tender offer of $26 billion for shares of Toyota Industries at 16,300 yen apiece, according to Reuters, sharply lower than 18,400 yen on Tuesday before the deal was announced.Toyota Group will create a new holding company for the deal, with the group’s real estate arm Toyota Fudosan investing about 180 billion yen, while Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda will invest 1 billion yen. Toyota Motor will…
CrowdStrike on Tuesday evening reported quarterly beats on many of the key metrics that investors focus on. However, it also delivered mixed guidance. As a result, we’re not surprised to see some profit-taking in after-hours trading, following Tuesday’s record-high close of nearly $489 per share. Revenue in the fiscal 2026 first quarter increased 20% year over year to $1.1 billion, landing right in line with estimates, according to LSEG. Growth was seen in all major geographic regions. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) declined 8% annually to 73-cents in the three months ended April 30, but that was ahead of the…
Sydney Harbour and the skyline of the central business district (CBD) in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAustralia’s economy grew less than expected in the first quarter this year, as growth stalled amid the simmering global trade tensions.The country’s economy grew 1.3% year-on-year in the first quarter, lower than the estimated 1.5% growth among economists polled by Reuters. That was unchanged from the 1.3% year-on-year growth in the prior quarter.The GDP figure comes as the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed rates to its lowest level in two years at its last meeting in May…
Anna Barclay | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform moved a step closer to having a bitcoin exchange-traded fund available to everyday investors. NYSE Arca, the all-electronic arm of the New York Stock Exchange that handles most ETF trading, filed on Tuesday to list a bitcoin fund linked to the president’s media company, the latest sign of Trump’s expanding push into the crypto world. Known as a 19b-4 form, the filing is required before regulators can decide whether to allow the fund to launch and trade on a U.S. exchange.Called the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, the fund is designed…
Reviewing Tuesday’s market session, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said President Donald Trump’s actions draw short sellers and prompt investors to make misguided moves.”When you examine the market’s mistakes, they share a common theme: the president’s distorting pretty much everything, especially with his tariffs and his jingoistic approach to the rest of the world, and it’s continually confounding traders and investors alike,” he said. “People would just rather be short, they expect the market to come down every day.”The indexes saw gains on Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.51%, the S&P 500 rose 0.58% and the Nasdaq Composite added…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesSen. Elizabeth Warren’s office issued a report Tuesday chronicling Elon Musk’s “130 days” in President Donald Trump’s administration, accusing the billionaire of using his government perch to enrich himself and his businesses.”Musk and individuals acting on his behalf have been involved in dozens of questionable actions that raise questions about corruption, ethics and conflicts of interest,” says the report by the Massachusetts Democrat’s office.The 14-page report outlines more…
CrowdStrike’s revenue outlook comes up short, but the company sees big opportunity ahead as it takes advantage of AI and gets customers to embrace more of its portfolio. Source link
Wells Fargo & Co. on Tuesday cleared a major obstacle to its growth plans, opening the way for the bank to grow after years of restrictions related to its fake-accounts scandal. Source link
The company is seeing growth from sovereign customers, with one executive calling out AI momentum in the Middle East. Source link