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In this article PLAY ZM SNOW VRTX Signage is seen ahead of the IPO for Chewy at the New York Stock Exchange, June 14, 2019. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Snowflake – Shares of the cloud computing company dropped nearly 4%. The firm presented its financial targets

In this article WMT AAL LUV Crime’s up. Tempers are up. Across the United States, businesses are grappling with an astonishing rise in what can only be called “people behaving badly.” Retail workers have been subjected to horrifying attacks based on their race, gender identity or disability. Flight attendants have been verbally — and occasionally

Erik Isakson | Tetra images | Getty Images Americans want their summer vacations. After a year of being pent up during the pandemic, 80% said they are ready to travel, according to a recent survey by tourism market research firm Destination Analysts. However, with that demand comes higher prices. Airline tickets are up 7% for

In this article RH Jason Kempin | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Shares of the high-end furniture retailer RH surged in extended trading Wednesday after the company beat analysts’ profit and sales estimates for the fiscal first quarter. RH also hiked its full-year outlook, building on the momentum it’s seeing in the luxury home

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC on Thursday that the meme stock frenzy — which traces its roots to the online forum website he helped create — is what happens when momentum investing is amplified by technology. “Really, the existence of people getting whipped up and excited about a stock has happened, you know, it’s

A view of the driveway leading to the residence at 777 Sarbonne Road in Bel-Air, California. Joe Bryant / Aaron Kirman Group Seven is a magical number for one of Bel-Air’s priciest spec homes. The glass and marble palace located at 777 Sarbonne Road in Los Angeles hit the market last month with an asking

Most people want to forget this part of the 1970s. But inflation is back, and investor Peter Boockvar predicts it will be the most widespread in decades. “Monetary policy … is right now impotent in its ability to stimulate economic activity,” the Bleakley Advisory Group chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. Boockvar

SELINSGROVE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES – 2021/01/27: A woman walks past the GameStop store inside the Susquehanna Valley Mall. An online group sent share prices of GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (AMC) soaring in an attempt to squeeze short sellers. Photo by Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images GameStop sales rose 25% in the

Jamie Grill | Getty Images Less than two years after the Secure Act ushered in significant changes to the nation’s retirement system, more modifications may be on the horizon. Two similar, bipartisan bills — one each in the House and Senate — aim to build on that 2019 legislation as a way to bolster the

In this article SFIX The Stitch Fix application for download in the Apple App Store on a smartphone arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S., on Saturday, June 5, 2021. Stitch Fix Inc. is scheduled to release earning on June 7. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stitch Fix shares soared on Monday after the

An artist’s rendition of a Terran R rocket launching to orbit. Relativity Space 3D-printing specialist Relativity Space raised $650 million to step up work on a fully reusable rocket that will attempt to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in less than three years, the company announced on Tuesday. The money will be used “to accelerate some

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Alex Wong | Getty Images Going to space like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos comes with a hefty price tag. Bezos – the richest person in the world – will participate in the first passenger flight his space company, Blue Origin, is making, he announced Monday. The voyage will take place on

BTIG’s Julian Emanuel believes the Reddit frenzy will play a major role in a deep market sell-off this summer. On CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Monday, Emanuel compared the current backdrop to late January when the mania was firing on all cylinders. Weeks later, wild swings pressured the major indexes as retail investors took profits. “We all

In this article KR A shopper holding an umbrella walks towards a Kroger Co. grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Sunday, April 26, 2020. Stacie Scott | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kroger announced Monday that it will hold a hiring event on Thursday to fill 10,000 jobs across its businesses. The event will offer

MoMo Productions | Stone | Getty Images LGBTQ small business owners are confident about their post-pandemic recovery, but more than 78% don’t have a succession plan in place, according to a new CNBC + Acorns and NGLCC Small Business Owner Financial Health Survey. Since many small businesses are handed down generation to generation, that’s really

In this article NVDA Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the company’s event at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles on Oct. 21, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia reported first quarter results for its fiscal 2022 on Wednesday, with sales growing 88% compared

The market conditions and technology in the mania over current meme stock AMC Entertainment are vastly different from day trading during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, online brokerage pioneer and former options trader Tom Sosnoff told CNBC on Friday. “There’s no comparison between the day traders of 1999-2000, and that first transition into

Elmont, N.Y.: Manuel Franco riding Tiz the Law wins first place during the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York on June 20, 2020. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images Kevin Richardson grew up in West Baltimore and credits horse racing with keeping him out of trouble. He started out cleaning stalls

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, delivers a speech to Congress at the Legislative Assembly building in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Photographer: Camilo Freedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images MIAMI — El Salvador is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation

A worker at Medline Industries gathers exam gloves to include into Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kits to be shipped out to various health facilities at their warehouse in Mundelein, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A group of private equity firms including

A store advertises a Help Wanted sign in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 12, 2021. JIM WATSON | AFP | Getty Images Long-term unemployment fell for the second straight month in May, an encouraging shift away from the recent near-record levels fueled by the economic carnage of the Covid pandemic. Economists classify long-term unemployment as a

In this article LULU Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a Lululemon store in San Francisco, California, on Monday, March 29, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lululemon on Thursday reported fiscal first-quarter revenue that soared 88%, topping analysts’ estimates, as shopper traffic steadily rebounded to its stores. The leggings maker also

Starship prototype SN10 fires its three Raptor engines as it comes in for the landing. SpaceX The U.S. Air Force is expanding a small development program that wants to leverage reusable rockets, like those SpaceX is building, to deliver cargo quickly to anywhere in the world. Called Rocket Cargo, the experimental military program will be

Asia has more than 30 cities with populations greater than five million people, yet only two can lay claim to the top bar on Asia’s 50 Best Bars list. Every year since the list’s inception, the continent’s best-ranked bar has been in either Hong Kong or Singapore. The annual ranking is organized by William Reed

A top investor expects volatility to dominate Wall Street for months. Amanda Agati, PNC Financial’s chief investment officer, lists stretched market valuations, Federal Reserve taper chatter and the end of stimulus checks as troubling forces in the market. “You have to pick and choose your exposures very, very carefully,” Agati said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation”

In this article NKE Vanessa Bryant is launching the Mambacita clothing line. Source: Mambacita Vanessa Bryant, widow of the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, wants Nike to explain why the Mambacita sneakers that she worked on to honor her daughter have been released without her permission. In an Instagram post Thursday morning, Vanessa Bryant said she was

In this article GME AMC BB-CA Mario Tama | Getty Images AMC Entertainment‘s stock continued its wild ride on Wednesday, with the price per share rising more than 100% and prompting a halt to its trading several times. AMC is one of several so-called meme stocks that have seen a surge in interest from individual

In this article ZM Zoom Video Communications Inc. founder and CEO Eric Yuan at the company’s IPO at Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, April 18, 2019. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Zoom reported better-than-expected results on Tuesday, with sales growth of 191%. But the shares fell as much as 5% in extended

The Crew Dragon capsule sits on top of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Friday, May 29, 2020. Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel | Getty Images Private spaceflight specialist Axiom Space on Wednesday announced a deal with SpaceX that added three more crewed flights to the International