Dow futures dipped on Wednesday due to fears that the trade war between the United States and China was escalating, while Nasdaq futures got a lift from Apple’s stellar results that helped ease concerns over the future growth of the tech sector.
Activist investors Cevian and Elliott have renewed calls for structural changes at ThyssenKrupp after the German industrial conglomerate cut its earnings guidance late on Tuesday.
Apple Inc may have just notched up its fourth straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth in China but the shine quickly came off that stellar performance as Chinese state media stepped up a tirade of criticism against the smartphone giant.
Sometimes keeping ahead of the game means learning some tricks from rivals – a strategy Samsung Electronics Co Ltd hasn’t been too proud to adopt in India where Xiaomi Corp and other Chinese brands have made hefty inroads.
In what seems to be a magic trick, Dele Fayemi runs a batch of batteries in a beaker of boiling water – a physical impossibility that should cause a short circuit.
Shares of Apple Inc are inching closer to a $1 trillion valuation, after the company forecast blowout current-quarter sales and analysts on Wednesday said a September launch of new iPhones set the stage for sustained growth.
Sprint Corp on Wednesday topped analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit, helped by surprise growth in wireless subscribers in a tightly contested phone market.
Volkswagen warned that a shortage of engineers is hampering efforts to get its cars to meet new anti-pollution rules, clouding its sales outlook and overshadowing a forecast-beating 23 percent rise in underlying operating profit.
Volkswagen Group’s Chief Executive Herbert Diess warned that new anti-pollution tests pose a risk to the carmaker’s profit targets.
S&P futures were little changed on Wednesday as Apple’s stellar results helped stem concerns over the future growth of the tech sector, but fears of an escalating tariff war between the United States and China capped gains.
World stocks fell and the dollar strengthened on Wednesday due to fears of an imminent escalation in the U.S.-China tariff war, although strong corporate earnings eased investor concerns about a recent sell-off in the tech sector.
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp on Wednesday reported a 16 percent fall in first-quarter profit, as it ramped up spending to attract more subscribers.
With Wells Fargo & Co’s revenue slumping and no clear end in sight for sales scandal-related costs, analysts have pushed back predictions for when the bank’s closely watched efficiency ratio will return to pre-scandal levels.
Ferrari reported a 7 percent rise in second-quarter adjusted core earnings and confirmed its outlook for the year as a new boss takes charge at the Italian supercar maker following the death of Sergio Marchionne.
Factory growth stuttered across the world in July, heightening concerns about the global economic outlook as an intensifying trade conflict between the United States and China sent shudders through trading partners.
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