By Sinéad Carew, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – The tech-heavy Nasdaq led a Wall Street rally on Thursday as a strong quarterly report from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc overshadowed concerns over slowing U.S. economic growth. Shares in Meta closed up 13.9% after touching their highest level in more than a year after…
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) -Snap Inc on Thursday missed analyst expectations for quarterly revenue as changes to its advertising platform hurt demand for ads, and warned results in the next quarter could fall below Wall Street’s targets. Shares of Snap tumbled 19% in after-market trading. The Santa Monica, California-based company, which owns photo messaging app…
By Vansh Agarwal (Reuters) -Pinterest Inc forecast second-quarter revenue growth below Wall Street estimates on Thursday, as the image-sharing platform grapples with a pullback in advertising spending, sending its shares down 13% in trading after the bell. While Pinterest said that the ad market was stabilizing, it warned the market was still uncertain. Shares of…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s economy minister on Thursday said “conditions were being established” to develop lithium mining projects in the country, a week after Chile launched a plan to boost state control of the industry. “A window of opportunity has opened and we want to take advantage of it,” said Economy Minister Alex Contreras, saying…
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) -Advertisers are sticking with safe havens Alphabet and Meta Platforms in an uncertain economy, their quarterly results showed, likely helping the tech giants take market share away from smaller digital ad sellers such as Snap Inc. Following a pandemic-led spending bonanza by advertisers who wanted to reach customers online, ad sales-reliant…
(Reuters) – The Norwegian central bank on Thursday excluded two oil and gas companies from its $1.4-trillion wealth fund, the world’s largest, citing ethical concerns over their ties to the Myanmar military. South Korea’s state-run Korea Gas Corp (KOGAS) and Indian gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd were excluded from the fund, Norges Bank said in…
(Reuters) – Consumer lender Capital One Financial Corp’s first-quarter profit missed estimates on Thursday due to an increase in provisions that reduced gains from interest rate hikes. The Federal Reserve’s rate hikes to tame soaring inflation since the past year benefited lenders as they charged higher interest from borrowers. Capital One’s net interest income rose…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel on Thursday said the agency will not hire any armed auditors with $80 billion in new funding, an attempt to dispel Republican assertions the IRS plans to build an “army” of 87,000 armed agents. Werfel, sworn in as the tax agency’s chief on…
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -Federal Reserve emergency lending to banks rose modestly in the latest week and remained at very high levels, even as many central bankers argue the worst of the banking sector’s latest stresses are waning. The central bank said that borrowing through three programs aimed at ensuring banks have the liquidity…
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate showed no sign of moving to avoid a looming debt-ceiling crisis on Thursday, as Republicans rejected calls to raise the $31.4 trillion limit without conditions and Democrats dismissed the idea of talks. A day after the House of Representatives approved a Republican package…
