By Granth Vanaik (Reuters) – Etsy Inc on Wednesday beat market expectations for quarterly revenue, benefiting from demand for products such as personalized gifts offered on its e-commerce platform as well as higher transaction fees, sending the company’s shares up about 2% in extended trading. Etsy – a marketplace for sellers of vintage or handcrafted…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. The Fed on Wednesday delivered what markets are convinced will be the last rate hike of the cycle, bond yields and the dollar fell, yet investors are rattled. Asian markets wake up on Thursday to the realization that…
(Reuters) -Homecare services provider Option Care Health Inc said on Wednesday it is acquiring Amedisys Inc in an all-stock deal valued at $3.6 billion, including debt. The deal will enable Option Care, an infusion service provider at home or alternate sites, to expand its services. Option Care valued Amedisys at $97.38 per share, a nearly…
(Reuters) -Agricultural chemical and seed company Corteva Inc on Wednesday raised its full-year forecast after it beat quarterly profit estimates aided by higher prices and strong demand for seeds, sending its shares up 2% in extended trade. Prices of crops have scaled back after rising to record highs as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former product manager at OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was convicted on Wednesday of fraud and money laundering for using inside knowledge of which assets would be featured on its home page to trade NFTs. Nathaniel Chastain was accused of buying NFTs he…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Donald Trump denied raping writer E. Jean Carroll in a deposition video played on Wednesday for a Manhattan federal jury, as the former U.S. president sought to defend himself in a civil trial without testifying in person. Trump, front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said in the October 2022 deposition…
By David Shepardson and Joseph White WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Wednesday that price cuts in the electric vehicle market were “a worrying trend” after the U.S. automaker dropped prices for its Mustang Mach-E in response to a series of reductions by rival Tesla. Ford on Tuesday announced a price cut of…
By Ivana Sekularac and Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) -A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school on Wednesday in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership. Using two handguns that belonged to his father, the boy fired first at the guard…
(Corrects firm name to RBC Wealth Management from RBC Portfolio Advisory Group in paragraph 5) By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – MSCI’s gauge of stock markets around the world was advancing but trading was choppy on Wednesday while U.S. Treasury yields and the U.S. dollar steepened declines after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest…
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Argentina has offered to fast-track imports from Brazil if its neighbor adopts a new credit system that reduces its dependence on the dollar, which it has in short supply, officials in both governments told Reuters. The proposal would cut the processing and payment time for Brazilian products to 30…
