(Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co., charging forward with big investments in electric vehicles, raised its full-year profit forecast and said it will restore its dividend, sending the stock soaring by as much as 9.5%. Most Read from Bloomberg The automaker on Wednesday lifted its 2021 profit forecast for the second time in as many quarters, and is now projecting $10.5 billion to $11.5 billion in earnings before interest and taxes. The reinstated quarterly dividend of 10 cents a share will be paid… Source link

Apple Inc.’s recent privacy crackdown has affected the largest players in online advertising very differently, recent quarterly results show, underscoring the strengths and weaknesses of each tech giant’s ad business. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the world’s largest digital-ad company by revenue, tallied its highest sales growth in more than a decade in the third quarter, while Facebook Inc. and Snap Inc. came up short of expectations and blamed Apple’s privacy rules… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher Wednesday evening after a mixed day in the markets, with the major equity indexes pulling back from record levels. Traders looked ahead to more earnings and economic reports on Thursday.  Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. The blue-chip index dropped on Wednesday after posting two consecutive days of record closing highs. The Dow also declined, while the Nasdaq ended slightly higher.  Investors on Thursday are set to receive more earnings data, as well… Source link

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Bitcoin (BTC-USD) may finish 2021 defined by the same vertigo-inducing price action that took it from under $30,000 to a fresh record near $66,000 within the space of a few months, analysts say. On Thursday, investors booking profits in the wake of the successful launch of two Bitcoin futures-based exchange traded funds (ETFs) last week dragged the digital coin down by about 5% on the day. More new funds are expected to hit the market from issuers like VanEck, Galaxy Digital and Bitwise,… Source link

Robinhood (HOOD) customers have been clamoring for the investing app to add Shiba Inu (SHIB-USD), the newest meme coin which hit all time highs on Thursday.  A change.org petition with over 300,000 signatures is asking Robinhood to list the SHIB token, as it’s known. Judging by the meme coin’s popularity, Robinhood knows listing it would likely bring in new accounts. But the company appears to be treading carefully around new meme assets — one of the drivers for its success in the… Source link

Boxing legend Mike Tyson may have pulled off an impressive return from retirement last year with an unofficial draw with Roy Jones Jr., but unlike ageless wonder Tom Brady, the heavyweight champion is being less secretive about his methods to fight father time. Iron Mike credits cannabis. Speaking with Yahoo Finance about the debut of his eponymous Tyson 2.0 cannabis line in partnership with cannabis company Columbia Care, the 55-year-old said he wished he smoked cannabis his “whole career”… Source link

The WSJ asked visitors to San Francisco’s Fisherman Wharf for permission to photograph them, then asked which they liked best. We took their photos outside on a partly cloudy day, with the normal wide-angle lens on three phones—Google’s Pixel 6, Samsung’s Galaxy S21 and Apple’s iPhone 13 Mini. Justin Sullivan/Getty, Cover: Google/AFP/Getty Source link

Google says minors and their families can ask for an image to be removed from its search results, in a new policy unveiled Wednesday. Screengrab by NPR hide caption toggle caption … Source link

Microsoft (MSFT) could easily go hunting for another whale of an acquisition with its $130.6 billion in cash, analysts say.  It has a lot of options on where it could look. “There are lots of different areas that we think Microsoft could acquire. We think Microsoft will continue to be acquisitive. I think there is plenty of opportunity for them to continue to expand their cloud application footprint. If you think about it, they have less than 10% market share in front office applications…. Source link