WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dell Technologies and Iron Bow Technologies have agreed to pay more than $2 million each to resolve allegations by the U.S. government they overcharged the Army on a computing contract, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Dell has agreed to pay $2.3 million and Iron Bow has agreed to pay $2.05 million to…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley has increased its 12-month base case price target on the S&P 500 to 6,500, the firm’s equity strategist Michael Wilson and other strategists wrote in a note on Monday. The benchmark index was last at 5,893. According to the note, the firm expects the recent broadening in U.S. earnings…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp’s results in the coming week could guide the U.S. stock market on its next path, as investors turn their focus to the technology sector and artificial intelligence trade after an election-fueled rally stalled. A nearly 800% run in shares of Nvidia over the past two years,…
By Sinéad Carew (Reuters) – Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc were up more than 6% on Friday, hitting a record high, after it announced late on Thursday that it would list on the Nasdaq and expects eligibility to join the Nasdaq 100 index. The data analytics software company said it would switch its stock listing…
By Blake Brittain Major League Baseball’s players union settled a lawsuit that accused sports betting giant FanDuel of using the names and likenesses of hundreds of MLB players on its betting platform without permission. A FanDuel spokesperson said on Friday that the company and the union signed a confidential licensing agreement. The players said in…
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) -Uranium prices gained on Friday after Russia imposed temporary restrictions on the export of enriched uranium to the United States. The move by Russia, the world’s largest supplier of enriched uranium, was a symbolic tit-for-tat move after the U.S. banned Russian uranium imports, adding that companies authorized by the export control…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Chris Kirkham (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling U.S. EV transition….
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney shares surged Thursday after the entertainment giant reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s estimates and offered robust guidance for the coming years. The company projected adjusted earnings-per-share percentage growth in the high single digits in fiscal 2025, even with capital expenditures of roughly…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 90 Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. President Joe Biden to sanction members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank, according to a letter released on Thursday. Urging Biden to send a message to U.S. partners before he leaves office, the members of…
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider DALLAS (Reuters) – Ongoing economic growth, a solid job market, and inflation that remains above the 2% target means the U.S. central bank does not need to rush to lower interest rates and can deliberate carefully, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday. In remarks that align with…
